Coca-Cola is to use its controversial sponsorship of the BBC’s Top of the Pops charts as a way to get pop stars to endorse its new music download service. The Official UK Chart Company, which compiles the chart for the BBC, will play matchmaker between the soft drink giant and record industry marketing directors. It […]
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by Chris Scott, December 09, 2003 LONDON – Coca-Cola is to launch an internet music download service next month in the UK, making it the first consumer brand to launch such a service. The service, which starts with a catalogue of 250,000 songs when it launches in January, will be located at mycokemusic.com, and has
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Album, Download, Album Rewind, Rock and Ultimate – VH1’s got ‘em all… As the channel that launched the first ever UK Album Chart show, if there is one thing we instinctively understand at VH1 it is that our viewers love charts & countdowns. In this Martini multi-media age of ‘any time, any place, any where’
New ten part series kicks off with the top 100 countdown on Saturday November 18 at 6pm on VH1… 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of the UK’s album chart listings and this autumn, in conjunction with The Official UK Charts Company, VH1 embarks on a 10 part series celebrating Britain’s top selling records of the
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Vikram Dodd, The GuardianSat 9 Nov 2002 11.57 GMT There is cheese, there is schmaltz, raw emotion and the odd killer tune in the list of the nation’s favourite number ones of all time. The list, released yesterday, shows that the public prefers older songs to modern tunes. It was compiled to mark the 50th
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By David Millward, The Telegraph09 November 2002 Pop stars from the Sixties triumphed over the chart-toppers of today in a survey of the best number one singles to mark the 50th anniversary of the British hit parade. More than 188,000 fans who took part in the poll snubbed legions of contemporary stars from boy bands
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The U.K.’s Chart Information Network is to be re-branded as the Official U.K. Charts Co., effective Oct. 1. “It was necessary to update, upgrade, and develop the brand, particularly as the company will be more consumer-facing in the run-up to the 50th anniversary celebrations of the official U.K. singles chart in 2022,” brand manager Darren
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Chart Information Network (CIN) is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Official UK Singles Chart with a tranche of promotional activity during the last quarter of next year. The push will extend beyond the music industry, with two book premiums – a coffee table book and the Guinness Book of Hit Singles publication –
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