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Chart leaks prompt midweeks rethink.
Plans to restrict the availability of midweek sales data are due to be unveiled this week in a bid to clamp down on early leaks of sales chart positions in the press and other media.
The BPI and the UK Official Charts Company are due to announce in the next few days plans to reduce access to "Sales Flashes" singles data.
BPI director general Andrew Yeates says the association has polled record company members to ask for their thoughts on the current availability of the data and that an announcement will be made early this week.
It is understood that one proposal under consideration is to withdraw the service of midweek singles data on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This would mean that the first midweek singles sales data would become available on Thursdays, covering Sunday until the end of Wednesday. It is understood that a one-month trial is being proposed.
The decision to poll the business was made at a BPI Council meeting earlier this month and follows a series of data leaks. One of the most high profile saw The Sun's Bizarre column on Wednesday, November 21 last year (see breakout) report that while Robbie Williams had sold 73,600 copies of Swing When Your Winning in its first day on sale, Mick Jagger's Goddess In The Doorway had shifted just 954 copies.
Yeates dismissed suggestions that a formal decision has already been taken and that atria period was ready to start this week.
Midweek chart data has only become widely available since the mid-Nineties.
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