Music-Week-1998-08-0
ANALYSIS: An A&R:14 years after A&R: Having ruled 41>04 ee. extra £5m has been he produced his first the world, Essex duo pledged by MATTHEW record JERMAINE ALISHA'S ATTIC BANNISTER to boost DUPRI has finally return with their BBC radio's coverage made his debut album second album 414> BBC RADIO 6 Talent 8 Talent 8 FOR EVERYONE IN THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC 1 AUGUST 1994 ,457// musicweek Indie sector turns thecorner by Robert Ashton share was as high as 22.7%. bigger cake," he says. According estimate they can lose as much SHARE OF ALBUM SALES Parallel imports have helped halt The improvement, reported in to the BPI Handbook the sector as 25% of sales to imports on key the misery years for indie retailers theBPIStatistical Handbook BY TYPE OF RETAILER sold 20.1% of singles last year releases. with new industry figures showing 1998 published last week, comes compared with 26.0% in 1996. With small indies suffering the the sector's share of total UK at the expense of specialist and specialist general indies super multiplesmultiples markets* Manybelieve theindies' greatest number of shop closures album sales increased last year general multiples, which lost 0.8 '9237.7%39.6%22.7% n/a improved albums performance in - 98 compared with only 11 large for the first time in at least five and 9.6 percentage points '9649.3%36.5%14.2% n/a a year when their total number of independents - within the sector, years. respectively. Bard chairman outlets actually fell from 1,207 in '9748.5%26.9%14.9%9.6% Barnes also attributes a large The grey market, the popularity Richard Wootton hails it as a sig- 1996 to 1,085 came through par- measure of the overall upturn to of indie-friendly genres such as nificant success.
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