- Gera Endorses Reducing Music Tax Retail Assn. Supports Labels' Efforts In Lowering Vat On...
European music merchants have thrown their weight behind record labels' efforts to have the level of value-added tax (VAT, or sales tax) applied to recorded ......
- Retailers Take Aim At Winter Doldrums
NEW YORK‹While the post-Christmas period marks a traditional low tide for music merchants and labels, retailers this year are faced with an even more daunting ......
- U.K. Retailers Seeking To Improve Status Online
Simon Wright, CEO of the Virgin Entertainment Group and chairman of the British Assn. of Record Dealers (BARD), has unveiled plans for an initiative, dubbed ......
- British Assn. of Record Dealers Re-Brands As ERA
Adopts new name to reflect new media age.
- U.K. Bodies To Try Limiting Early Access To Chart Data
The Official U.K. Charts Co. will on Monday launch a monthlong trial aimed at restricting the industry's access to mid-week sales and chart information for ......
- Coldplay's 'X&Y' Enters Record Books
New album sells 464,000 copies in Britain.
- Albums Down, Digital Up In U.k.
Despite continuing good signs for domestic repertoire, Great Britain's album sales shrank to 159 million units in 2005, down 2.7% in volume compared with 2004.
- U.K. Retailers Seeking To Improve Status Online
Simon Wright, CEO of the Virgin Entertainment Group and chairman of the British Assn. of Record Dealers (BARD), has unveiled plans for an initiative, dubbed ......
- U.K. To Bow Download Chart
The Official U.K. Charts Co. (OCC) has unveiled plans to develop the territory's first official downloads chart. The chart, which will rank the top 40 ......
- U.k. To Have Downloads Chart By Christmas
The U.K. music industry has acknowledged the potential of legal digitally distributed music by confirming that it is developing a weekly download chart—a first for ......
- U.K. Retail Directory To Bow
London-based music portal Worldpop is partnering with the British Assn. of Record Dealers (BARD) to create an online music directory on its Web site, www.worldpop.com....
- U.K. Retailers Seeking To Improve Status Online
Simon Wright, CEO of the Virgin Entertainment Group and chairman of the British Assn. of Record Dealers (BARD), has unveiled plans for an initiative, dubbed ......
- BBC To Cease Promoting Chart-Sponsor Coca-Cola
The BBC is to remove on-air credits of music chart sponsor Coca-Cola following widespread criticism of the tie-up.
- U.K.'s CIN Chart To Add E-tailer Data
Online merchants Jungle, BOL, HMV, Boxman, and Audiostreet will begin contributing sales data to the U.K.'s weekly Chart Information Network (CIN) charts Oct. 1, Bulletin ......
- Retailers And Distributors Explore In-store Dvd Security
DVD may be one of the best things to have happened to the world's entertainment retailers, but as the format's popularity grows, so has its ......