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Snow Patrol help Big Life maintain indie lead.

Music Week

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It was a tough start to 2007 for the independent publishers, but for Big Life the year simply started as the last one ended.

Having ruled the market during 2006 with Snow Patrol's Eyes Open finishing as the year's biggest-selling album, Big Life cashed in again during the first three months of 2007 to retain its place as the number one independent publisher.

The company grabbed a 18.4% combined share of the indie market in quarter one as Eyes Open finished as the period's fifth top seller.

Kobalt took second place thanks to a brace of big sellers including half of Gwen Stefani's The Sweet Escape (the quarter's sixth top single) and 80% of JoJo's Too Little Too Late (10th ...

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