As an official download chart is launched, BBC News Online asks the music industry what the impact will be for singles.

Official music download websites could replace record shops as the public’s preferred places to buy singles within five years, one of the UK’s leading music industry figures has said.

The singles chart is under threat in its current form, Peter Jamieson, executive chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, which represents UK record companies, told BBC News Online. [more @ www.news.bbc.co.uk]

Posted Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 8:36 pm
Filed Under Category: Music Business
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