Seen on the tube this evening: a kid in his generic Orson/Feeder type t-shirt with a Download Festival wristband. That is to say, he hasn’t removed his plastic wristband from a concert that was over a week ago. Oh dear…
Incidentally, I discover that it only takes 10,000 single sales to make the Top 10 at the moment. So a back of bus ticket calculation suggests that you could buy your way into the top 10 by spending £20k. I’m not suggesting that anyone does this sort of thing since the BPI don’t like it and it’s all electronic these days so you’d need to ensure that singles were sold relatively evenly around the country, but it’s interesting nonetheless. And it seems that around 27% of your sales might be digital. Very interesting.