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The official UK albums charts top 75.
ALBUMS COMMENTARY
Former Take That star beats a host of star names to emerge at the top--but enough of Mark Owen (who, by the by, released his first and only solo album Green Man six years ago this week, saw it debut at number 33, sell 100,000 copies and then was dropped by RCA). Let us concentrate on Robbie Williams who tops the album chart for the second week in a row. Sales of Robbie's fifth solo album, Escapology, contracted by 29% last week, even as the artist album market improved by 18% week-on-week to reach a 2002 high of 3,805,000. Escapology accounted for nearly 187,000 of those sales--4.9%. In the same week last year, Williams' Swing When You're ...
- UK government urges regulator to split BT.(British Telecom)(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...requested Oftel to pay special attention to possibility of splitting BT's network division from rest of business. News comes only weeks after BT's consumer and wholesale broadband price-cuts were approved by Oftel (see 2002/101a3). BT (UK; +44/20...
- New Australian distributor launches.(Hopscotch)(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...begin with a library of 150 films, transferred from New Vision. Intention is to acquire international titles for local distribution, releasing up to 10 films a year. Company also aims to back development of a number of Australian titles.
- 'Spider-Man' gets online sales boost.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...registering record-breaking online ticket sales. Fandango.com has reported that ticket sales on its site totalled $3m in the weeks leading up to the movie's release. Fandango rival AOL Moviefone has not provided specific figures, but claims to have sold...
- Wizard film sets UK video sales record.(Harry Potter and the Philosopher's...
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...Home Video (www.warnerbros.co.uk), clocked up sales of 1.25m copies on first day of release, breaking record for number of copies sold within 24 hours of release. Record-breaking was aided by 700 retailers opening their doors from midnight on...
- Asia World Cup satellite scam.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
Increasing number of Asian viewers are turning to illegally obtained satellite channels to watch the imminent World Cup broadcasts. Illegal sales...
- Canadian Internet homes opt for broadband.
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...households now use high-speed Internet connection. Number of Internet homes in Canada connected with broadband...online for longer--an average of 14.3 hours a week, compared with 8.6 hours a week for dial-up users--and are more inclined to...
- GERMAN HOMES ACQUIRE MOBILES AND PCs : But VCR penetration is in...
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...is the pay TV decoder box. An additional half a per cent of German homes are installing d-boxes in their homes. And the number of homes with VCRs is actually falling, down by an impressive 4.1 per cent of all homes during 2001. The replacement of...
- Fewer US acting roles as producers decamp.
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest July 1, 2002 700+ words
Number of roles offered to members of US acting union dropped sharply in 2001...see 2001/131a5), according to SAG's Employment Statistics Report. Numbers include all productions reporting to SAG in Casting Data Report, and do...