Official Chart Company Team Up With Record Store Day To Make New Independent Record Chart
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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The organisers of Record Store Day will help launch a brand new chart which will keep tabs on the sales of independent record stores, it has been announced.
The Official Charts Company have teamed up with the Record Store Day team to help put the idea into being, and it's now ready to be launched this Friday (April 20th). It'll run alongside the UK Singles chart and UK Albums chart, and will be calculated strictly from physical sales from independent record stores across the country.
Speaking of the new chart, Martin Talbot – the managing director of the Official Charts Company – said: “Independent record shops are more important than ever in helping introduce music fans to new, interesting music, so we are delighted to be working with the Record Store Day team to launch this chart.
“A record store is for life, not just for Record Store Day, so we very much hope that the Official Record Store Chart will serve to harness the focus created by Record Store Day and help maintain it week in, week out, through the year.”
Spencer Hickman, organiser of Record Store Day, said of the day: “Record Store Day is a world-wide celebration of record shops and their unique position that they have in their local community. The idea of the Official Record Store Chart is to take Record Store Day and keep it in people's minds throughout the whole year. It will give a true representation of physical sales across all the indie stores up and down the country.”
The first ever Independent Record Chart will take place on Friday at 5pm, on Steve Lamacq's BBC 6Music show. The weekly chart will the be updated at 7pm every Sunday.NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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