"Cheryl Cole spectacularly proved her doubters wrong yesterday - by shooting to the top of the singles chart.
She sold an astonishing 292,846 copies of Fight For This Love which instantly became the biggest-selling single of the year so far.
And it marked a turning point for the resurgent singles industry, which had been predicted to almost die out but has now been saved by internet downloads.
This year has become the biggest ever for UK singles sales because of the download market, according to music industry experts.
Recorded music body the BPI hailed the 'astonishing' transformation of the market as it was revealed that 117million singles have already been sold this year.
The Official Charts Company data showed that sales have surpassed the previous record of 115.1million, set in 2008.
The total has been reached with ten weeks of trading, including the vital Christmas period, still to go.
Geoff Taylor, BPI chief executive, said: 'We've witnessed an astonishing transformation of the UK singles market during the last six years, with digital downloads rapidly overtaking sales of CD singles and cassettes to dominate the singles scene.'"
Despite the moaning hidden in other news items you find information like this!
Ahhhh but when it comes down to it if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to be worried about..... Plus when the 7/7 bombings took place in the capital they knew who committed those acts of atrocity within a week as I recall. When 9/11 happened I don't think you could say that now could you? ;)
In 1967, the Common Council of the City of London placed the bridge on the market and began to look for potential buyers. Council member Ivan Luckin had put forward the idea of selling the bridge, and recalled: "They all thought I was completely crazy when I suggested we should sell London Bridge when it needed replacing." On 18 April 1968, Rennie's bridge was sold to the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch of McCulloch Oil for US$2,460,000. The claim that McCulloch believed mistakenly that he was buying the more impressive Tower Bridge was denied by Luckin in a newspaper interview. [8]
So no deceit the guy said he knew what he was buying i.e. not TOWER Bridge :P
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Interesting where you find info to contradict the doom and gloom!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1222882/Cheryl-Cole-shoots-number-solo-single.html
Interesting excerpt:
"Cheryl Cole spectacularly proved her doubters wrong yesterday - by shooting to the top of the singles chart.
She sold an astonishing 292,846 copies of Fight For This Love which instantly became the biggest-selling single of the year so far.
And it marked a turning point for the resurgent singles industry, which had been predicted to almost die out but has now been saved by internet downloads.
This year has become the biggest ever for UK singles sales because of the download market, according to music industry experts.
Recorded music body the BPI hailed the 'astonishing' transformation of the market as it was revealed that 117million singles have already been sold this year.
The Official Charts Company data showed that sales have surpassed the previous record of 115.1million, set in 2008.
The total has been reached with ten weeks of trading, including the vital Christmas period, still to go.
Geoff Taylor, BPI chief executive, said: 'We've witnessed an astonishing transformation of the UK singles market during the last six years, with digital downloads rapidly overtaking sales of CD singles and cassettes to dominate the singles scene.'"
Despite the moaning hidden in other news items you find information like this!
Re: sf suave.....
Ahhhh but when it comes down to it if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to be worried about..... Plus when the 7/7 bombings took place in the capital they knew who committed those acts of atrocity within a week as I recall. When 9/11 happened I don't think you could say that now could you? ;)
Re: Right. And I've a bridge to sell you.
From Wikipedia:
In 1967, the Common Council of the City of London placed the bridge on the market and began to look for potential buyers. Council member Ivan Luckin had put forward the idea of selling the bridge, and recalled: "They all thought I was completely crazy when I suggested we should sell London Bridge when it needed replacing." On 18 April 1968, Rennie's bridge was sold to the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch of McCulloch Oil for US$2,460,000. The claim that McCulloch believed mistakenly that he was buying the more impressive Tower Bridge was denied by Luckin in a newspaper interview. [8]
So no deceit the guy said he knew what he was buying i.e. not TOWER Bridge :P