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Melua success boosts indie sector: Dramatico scores biggest album of quarter one, helping indies to increase market share.(Market shares)

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George Michael's Patience had just 1.3 days to make an impact on quarter one sales, but it was time enough to suggest his reunion with Sony will be a profitable one.

In less than a fortnight, the album clocked up 367,000 sales over the counter, making it the quarter's third biggest-selling album and helping to secure Sony Music's name back at the top of the record company albums league table with an 11.4% share.

Alongside Norah Jones' Feels Like Home, the Michael album was one of the few significant new studio efforts to arrive during a period in which the market took a mainstream swing. Six of the quarter's 10 top-selling albums loosely fell under an ...

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