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		<title>Carly Rae Jepson tops first streaming chart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carly Rae Jepsen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carly Rae Jepsen has become the first artist to top the new Official Streaming Chart from The Official Charts Company. As previously reported, the new chart collects data from both ad-funded and subscription streaming services including Spotify, We7, Napster, and Deezer, amongst others. In addition to this, the OCC also revealed last week that is<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/carly-rae-jepson-tops-first-streaming-chart/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Official Charts Company launches streaming chart</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/official-charts-company-launches-streaming-chart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coldplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Sheeran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this is good news. The Official Charts Company announced this morning the launch of a new streaming chart, which will collect data from both ad-funded and subscription streaming services including Spotify, We7, Napster, and Deezer, amongst others. The OCC also revealed this morning that is in &#8220;advanced discussions&#8221; with several video streaming services to<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/official-charts-company-launches-streaming-chart/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Radio 1 and OCC reveal biggest selling singles of the century</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/radio-1-and-occ-reveal-biggest-selling-singles-of-the-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Official Charts Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radio 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, those dudes over at Radio 1 counted down the 150 biggest selling singles so far this century on Monday, because twelve and half years in that&#8217;s the sort of information we all desperately need, and the top ten makes for, hmm, well, fun reading. It&#8217;s mainly shit pop music basically, but that&#8217;s what the<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/radio-1-and-occ-reveal-biggest-selling-singles-of-the-century/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adele&#8217;s 21 outsells Jackson&#8217;s Thriller</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/adeles-21-outsells-jacksons-thriller/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/adeles-21-outsells-jacksons-thriller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 11:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Official Charts Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, Adele&#8217;s &#8217;21&#8242; has now outsold Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Thriller&#8217; to become the fifth biggest selling album of all-time in the UK, and she did it without a death-induced burst of nostalgia-buying. Imagine what she could achieve if she died in suspicious circumstances. Confirming &#8217;21&#8242; had now outsold &#8216;Thriller&#8217; by over 500 units, Official Charts Company<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/adeles-21-outsells-jacksons-thriller/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Indies increased market share in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/indies-increased-market-share-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charts, Stats & Polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EMI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sony Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three of the major music companies saw their global market share slip slightly in 2011, according to stats from Music &#38; Copyright. According to the survey, Universal Music, Sony Music and EMI all saw their share of the music rights markets decline in 2011 compared to 2010, while Warner Music and the independents saw increases.<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/indies-increased-market-share-in-2011/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spotify and Beggars founders jump onto Sunday Times Rich List</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/spotify-and-beggars-founders-jump-onto-sunday-times-rich-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Ek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Mills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual Sunday Times Rich List will be published this Sunday, and will show that, for the most part, the wealthiest people in music are pretty much as wealthy as they were this time last year. Paul McCartney jumps up two places to number three, but this is down to his new wife Nancy Shevell&#8217;s<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/spotify-and-beggars-founders-jump-onto-sunday-times-rich-list/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Record Store Day reports boom in sales</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/record-store-day-reports-boom-in-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment Retailers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Record Store Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Record Store Day seems to have been a resounding success, if stats released by the Entertainment Retailers Association are anything to go by. Vinyl sales were up 50% on the event last year, while some of the 230 participating stores have reported more than 100% increases over 2011. Also, seven of the 450<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/record-store-day-reports-boom-in-sales/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>First indie record store chart unveiled</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/first-indie-record-store-chart-unveiled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Official Charts Company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Official Charts Company&#8217;s new chart rounding up the top sellers in independent record shops around the UK was announced on Friday. As previously reported, the new year-round chart was launched to coincide with this year&#8217;s Record Store Day, with Alabama Shakes taking the first number one slot. Official Charts Company Managing Director, Martin Talbot<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/first-indie-record-store-chart-unveiled/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Official Charts Company launches indie record store chart</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/official-charts-company-launches-indie-record-store-chart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To coincide with this year&#8217;s Record Store Day on 21 Apr, The Official Charts Company has announced a new year-round chart collating the biggest selling music through independent record shops in the UK each week. The first chart will be unveiled by Steve Lamacq on his 6music show this Friday, and will thereafter appear at<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/official-charts-company-launches-indie-record-store-chart/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Madonna breaks US chart record (a shit one though)</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/madonna-breaks-us-chart-record-a-shit-one-though/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madonna&#8217;s latest album &#8216;MDNA&#8217; has earned her the record for the biggest second week percentage drop in sales for an album that debuted at number one in US chart history. Well done, Madge. &#8216;MDNA&#8217; shot to the top of the Billboard 200 last week, shifting 359,000 copies during its first seven days on sale. However,<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/madonna-breaks-us-chart-record-a-shit-one-though/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Third of albums sold in UK now digital</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/third-of-albums-sold-in-uk-now-digital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Taylor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital now accounts for almost a third of all UK album sales, new data from the Official Charts Company and record label trade body the BPI has confirmed. While digital has totally dominated the singles market for years now, the humble CD has held up well in the album domain, though the digital album &#8211;<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/third-of-albums-sold-in-uk-now-digital/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time Out release best London venue chart</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/time-out-release-best-london-venue-chart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Out has announced the top ten from its first ever Best Live Music Venue in London poll, in which it polled Londoners about, well, what they thought were the best live music venues. And God will be pleased with the results, because his Union Chapel has come out top. It is a great venue.<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/time-out-release-best-london-venue-chart/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>One Direction become first British group to debut at top of Billboard albums chart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Niall Horan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls, you at the back, members of The Wanted, and my mum (she&#8217;s interested because Harry Styles comes from the village where my family lives), take note, One Direction are the first and, for at least the next week, the only British pop group to ever debut on the Billboard albums<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/one-direction-become-first-british-group-to-debut-at-top-of-billboard-albums-chart/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>2011 was a good year for Brit acts in the US, BPI confirms</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/2011-was-a-good-year-for-brit-acts-in-the-us-bpi-confirms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Taylor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As two UK acts battle it out for the top spot in the Billboard albums chart this week &#8211; and if One Direction win they&#8217;ll be the first British pop group to ever debut at the top of the countdown &#8211; the BPI has published stats showing that last year was a very good year<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/2011-was-a-good-year-for-brit-acts-in-the-us-bpi-confirms/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Billboard to include streaming stats in Hot 100</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CMU Editorial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Germany gets Spotify, then Billboard adds streaming stats into its flagship singles chart. Come on early adopters, it&#8217;s time you all stopped participating in this old news streaming music party. Get with the moment, what&#8217;s new guys, what&#8217;s the big new digital phenomenon? I&#8217;ve not been paying as close attention to this year&#8217;s SxSW<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/billboard-to-include-streaming-stats-in-hot-100/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>One Direction could make US chart history next week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wanted may have been getting more radio play than rivals One Direction Stateside, resulting in a better performance in the American singles charts, but the &#8216;X-Factor&#8217; created boy band are set to outperform the Capital Radio-owned Wanted boys when it comes to the US albums chart. In fact, next week 1D might just do<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/one-direction-could-make-us-chart-history-next-week/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>IMPALA launches pan-European charts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pan-European indie label trade body IMPALA has announced the launch of two new charts, measuring the success of independent music across Europe. The Top Independent European Digital Download Chart and Top Independent European Radio Airplay Chart will be compiled on behalf of the trade body by Nielsen Music, whose SoundScan system is used to compile<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/impala-launches-pan-european-charts/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Influential music Twitterers named by The Independent</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/influential-music-twitterers-named-by-the-independent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent yesterday published its annual list of the top 100 most influential Twitter users, which shows a shift in the &#8216;balance of power&#8217; in music. Or something like that. Whatever, Tinchy Stryder, Lily Allen, Mark Ronson and Marina And The Diamonds aren&#8217;t on the overall influencer list any more, but Olly Murs and Harry<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/influential-music-twitterers-named-by-the-independent/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Digital booms, though still not enough to combat physical decline</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/digital-booms-though-still-not-enough-to-combat-physical-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite it looking like it might be peaking sooner than anyone would have liked a couple of years back, digital music continued to grow at quite a pace in 2011, with digital income across the British record industry up 24.7% to £281.6m, meaning digital growth offset two-thirds of the concurrent decline in physical product sales.<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/digital-booms-though-still-not-enough-to-combat-physical-decline/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>British artists account for over half of UK album sales in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurrah for our inward looking Anglo-American dominated popular culture. Home grown artists together accounted for 52.7% of UK album sales last year, the biggest market share enjoyed by British talent since 1997. Of course Adele contributed rather more than her fair share to that achievement, but albums from Coldplay, Jessie J, Ed Sheeran, Amy Winehouse<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/british-artists-account-for-over-half-of-uk-album-sales-in-2011/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Live Nation boss tops Billboard&#8217;s power 100</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/live-nation-boss-tops-billboards-power-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always brave of an industry trade magazine to publish one of those &#8216;most important people in our business&#8217; lists, given the politics of ensuring no key advertiser, subscriber or other influential contact is left out. Old timers in the British record industry will remember that Sony-lite Music Week power list, and the subsequent fallout.<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/live-nation-boss-tops-billboards-power-100/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Digital continues to grow, though piracy remains a problem, says the IFPI</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/digital-continues-to-grow-though-piracy-remains-a-problem-says-the-ifpi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital music continued to grow in all quarters in 2011, according to the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry&#8217;s annual digital music report, published yesterday, which noted that the big digital music services &#8211; which include iTunes, Spotify and Deezer &#8211; are now operating in 58 countries around the world, compared to 23 in 2010.<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/digital-continues-to-grow-though-piracy-remains-a-problem-says-the-ifpi/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pop top genre in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/pop-top-genre-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think this will come as a surprise to anyone &#8211; especially given last week&#8217;s &#8216;where have all the guitar bands gone&#8217; debatings online &#8211; but pop releases dominated 2011 in the UK, with the genre surpassing rock in terms of album sales for the first time in seven years. According to Official Charts<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/pop-top-genre-in-2011/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Digital continues to boom, but overall record sales down</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/digital-continues-to-boom-but-overall-record-sales-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 was a bumper year for digital music in the UK, labels trade body the BPI confirmed earlier this week, though overall record sales continued to decline. It was another record breaking year for singles sales which were up 10%, the vast majority, of course, being sold digitally, with the million CD singles shifted over<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/digital-continues-to-boom-but-overall-record-sales-down/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kiwanuka tops BBC Sound Of poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s Sound Of 2012 poll&#8217;s final five has been announced, the survey of music pundit types that pisses off everyone who doesn&#8217;t get to vote but which, when it comes to the overall winners, is usually good at predicting which newcomers will have a good year to come, even if some next big things<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/kiwanuka-tops-bbc-sound-of-poll/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>U2 top tour tally for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/u2-top-tour-tally-for-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U2&#8242;s 2011 tour was the year&#8217;s highest grossing, according to Billboard Boxscore. The band performed 44 shows, all of which sold out, bringing in $293,281,487 (£187,085,502) in revenue. In the course of all that, they performed to 2.8 million people. Here&#8217;s the top ten live music performers for 2011: 1. U2 2. Bon Jovi 3.<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/u2-top-tour-tally-for-2011/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>X-Factor acts most prolific British performers, says PRS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former &#8216;X-Factor&#8217; losers JLS and Olly Murs are the hardest working acts in British live music according to PRS For Music, though that basically means they each played gigs at 29 venues this year, which doesn&#8217;t sound like particularly hard work to me. But PRS has given both acts &#8216;hard work&#8217; awards, and  sent over<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/x-factor-acts-most-prolific-british-performers-says-prs/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Little Mix top chart with second worst performing X winner single</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;X-Factor&#8217; winners Little Mix may have had the best selling single last week by quite some margin, and with 210,000 units sold their cover of &#8216;Cannonball&#8217; was the fastest selling single of the year, but it&#8217;s still the worst performing &#8216;X-Factor&#8217; winner&#8217;s single release since Steve Brookstein&#8217;s cover of &#8216;Against All Odds&#8217; back in 2004.<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/little-mix-top-chart-with-second-worst-performing-x-winner-single/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>PJ Harvey tops HMV&#8217;s poll of polls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully distracting at least some attention from those disappointing sales figures, HMV has released its annual poll of polls, working out which records have come up most frequently in the end of year music round ups published by various British media. And the overall record of the year according to this polling? Well, PJ Harvey&#8217;s<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/pj-harvey-tops-hmvs-poll-of-polls/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers to present hit record formula</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can science predict whether a song will be a hit or not? No, but it&#8217;s always fun when it tries. And researchers from the University Of Bristol will this week present a paper which they say includes a formula that will predict whether a tune will be a hit or miss. The researchers looked at<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/researchers-to-present-hit-record-formula/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women spend more on music than men, says new survey</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/women-spend-more-on-music-than-men-says-new-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the perceived importance of the good old &#8217;50 quid man&#8217; on record sales, you might be surprised to know that, according to new research by IPC Media, women are bigger spenders on music than men, though only when tickets and merch are taken into consideration. The new survey by the NME and Uncut publisher<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/women-spend-more-on-music-than-men-says-new-survey/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>AIM head brands BBC Sound Of Poll &#8220;completely meaningless&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/aim-head-brands-bbc-sound-of-poll-completely-meaningless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the previously repprted announcement that this year&#8217;s BBC Sound Of poll longlist only featured one artist signed to an independent label, Alison Wenham, boss of the Association Of Independent Music, has branded the poll &#8220;completely meaningless&#8221;. Speaking to the NME, Wenham said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s very inconsequential because, even going back years, this list<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/aim-head-brands-bbc-sound-of-poll-completely-meaningless/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>BBC announces Sound Of 2012 longlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here it is people, the BBC Sound Of 2012 longlist. Yeah, I know what you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;what&#8217;s blah blah doing on there, surely they were the sound of 2011, hey, that dude&#8217;s just been nominated for three Grammys, why are nearly all of these on major labels&#8221;. But don&#8217;t blame the Beeb, blame the<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/bbc-announces-sound-of-2012-long-list/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jessie J scores biggest selling debut album of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessie J&#8217;s &#8216;Who You Are&#8217; has been named the biggest selling debut album in the UK of 2011, even though 2011 isn&#8217;t over yet. So that&#8217;s nice. She&#8217;s also one of eight British artists in the top ten, which proves just how xenophobic the British record buying public has become. Below are the top 20<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/jessie-j-scores-biggest-selling-debut-album-of-2011/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Billboard changes chart rules on cheapo albums</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/billboard-changes-chart-rules-on-cheapo-albums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billboard has changed its chart rules so that heavily discounted albums will no longer be counted. The move follows the big Amazon promotion earlier this year where the new Lady Gaga long player was sold to American customers for a mere 99 cents, helping the pop star to exceed a million units in first week<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/billboard-changes-chart-rules-on-cheapo-albums/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of music people in Standard&#8217;s influential Londoners list</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evening Standard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Random list of people put together by a newspaper anyone? The Evening Standard has published its annual list of the 1000 most influential Londoners, and there are a fair number of music types in there. Look, we&#8217;ve grouped them into handy lists, though if you want a couple of sentences about each of them courtesy<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/lots-of-music-people-in-standards-influential-londoners-list/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>2010 digital album sales total already passed in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coldplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Economy Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a sector that is constantly moaning that if the government doesn&#8217;t get its arse into gear and enact the anti-file-sharer &#8216;graduated response&#8217; system set out in the Digital Economy Act it will soon crash and burn into oblivion, the UK record industry has certainly been issuing a lot of announcements recently about all the<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/2010-digital-album-sales-total-already-passed-in-2011/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coldplay go to number one in the US</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coldplay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lady Gaga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coldplay&#8217;s &#8216;Mylo Xyloto&#8217; album has gone straight to number one in the US, selling 447,000 copies in its first week, the third largest single week sales of 2011. But Chris et al shouldn&#8217;t get too smug about this just yet. Their record is way off Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8216;Born This Way&#8217;, which managed 1.1 million first<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/coldplay-go-to-number-one-in-the-us/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coldplay break digital sales record</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/coldplay-break-digital-sales-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coldplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Official Charts Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coldplay have broken the record for the highest number of download sales in one week, with 83,000 digital copies of their new album &#8216;Mylo Xyloto&#8217; contributing its 208,000 total sales in its first week of release last week. According to The Official Charts Company, the previous record holders were Take That, who sold 79,800 downloads<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/coldplay-break-digital-sales-record/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Marilyn Mason tops poll of creepy celebs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn Mason]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a shocker. Marilyn Manson has been voted America&#8217;s creepiest celebrity. E-Poll Market Research surveyed 1100 people for the Halloween-themed poll, asking them to rank celebrities&#8217; overall creepiness from 1-100, and to select qualities (&#8216;creepy&#8217; being one) that they felt best suited each celeb. Manson leads the poll with a 69% creepiness rating. Also featured:<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/marilyn-mason-tops-poll-of-creepy-celebs/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Coldplay LP notches big first week sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coldplay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coldplay&#8217;s fifth studio LP, &#8216;Mylo Xyloto&#8217;, which looks a safe bet to conquer the charts this weekend, has experienced one of the best-selling opening weeks of any album released so far this year. According to the latest Official Chart Company update, the LP shifted 122,000 units in its first three days after release, with digital<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/new-coldplay-lp-notches-big-first-week-sales/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson tops Forbes dead rich poll</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/jackson-tops-forbes-dead-rich-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson has again topped Forbes&#8217; poll of high earning dead celebrities. It&#8217;s the second year that Jackson has beaten usual poll leader Elvis Presley in the Forbes chart. The magazine reckons the Jackson estate generated $170 million in the last year, aided by continued sales of his catalogue, various licensing deals and the launch<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/jackson-tops-forbes-dead-rich-poll/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>DJ Mag declares top 100</title>
		<link>http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/dj-mag-declares-top-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Armin van Buuren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Guetta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s official. David Guetta has been voted overall winner of DJ Magazine&#8217;s annual Top 100 DJs Poll, overtaking four-time previous victor Armin Van Buuren, who emerged the eventual runner-up. Staged as part of the Amsterdam Dance Event for the first time this year, the verdict formed the grand finale to an evening of live<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/dj-mag-declares-top-100/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Vinyl sales in 2011 pass 2010 total</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Official Charts Company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vinyl sales in 2011 have already passed the total for the whole of 2010. Over 240,000 vinyl albums have been sold so far this year, compared to 234,000 for the whole of last year, according to the Official Charts Company. As previously reported, the Entertainment Retailers Associations and the OCC previously announced in July that<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/vinyl-sales-in-2011-pass-2010-total/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Planet Rock poll for the best driving rock songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital radio station Planet Rock teamed up with Jaguar this summer to survey its listeners about their favourite tracks for in-car listening, and while the resulting top ten does read a bit like every service station compilation album, the station&#8217;s listeners have been good enough to pick a number one that none of you would<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/planet-rock-poll-for-the-best-driving-rock-songs/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More stat and award glory for Adele</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, yet another good week for Adele. First, it&#8217;s looking likely that the British singer will have the honour of best selling single and album in both the UK and the US this year, a feat not achieved, Music Week points out, since The Beatles way back in 1964. She then got the most nominations<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/more-stat-and-award-glory-for-adele/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Starship hit the worst song of the 80s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starship&#8217;s &#8216;We Built This City&#8217; has been voted the worst song on the 1980s in a Rolling Stone poll. Presumably the &#8216;Birdie Song&#8217; never reached America. Though Chris de Burgh&#8217;s &#8216;Lady In Red&#8217; clearly did, because it comes in at number three. I mean, come on, I&#8217;ve not been sent here to stick up for<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/starship-hit-the-worst-song-of-the-80s/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We Are The Champions the catchiest song ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queen&#8217;s &#8216;We Are The Champions&#8217; is the catchiest song ever written, and that&#8217;s according to science, which took a day off from finding a cure for cancer to assess pop song catchiness. Actually, although the Press Association says that &#8220;scientists&#8221; at Goldsmiths College made this discovery, Goldsmiths doesn&#8217;t actually have a science department &#8211; being<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/we-are-the-champions-the-catchiest-song-ever/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bono most trusted pop star, says reputation poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bono is the eighth most liked and trusted public figure in the world, according to a survey by The Reputation Institute. Yeah, think about that for a minute. I have a suspicion this survey is bollocks, which I guess means I&#8217;m not trusting a survey about trusting, which is a nice loop to find yourself<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/bono-most-trusted-pop-star-says-reputation-poll/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pets prefer Adele in the car</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adele]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And the prize for nonsense survey of the week goes to this one by Confused.com and The Dogs Trust, which has worked out that the most popular radio station among cats and dogs &#8211; when travelling in a car (this survey was designed to flog Confused.com&#8217;s car insurance services) &#8211; is Radio 1. Closely followed<a class="moretag" href="http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/pets-prefer-adele-in-the-car/"><p>[Click for full details]</a>]]></description>
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