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New Official Classical Singles Chart to launch next week

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The is launching a brand new chart to reflect a shift in the classical music sector, and consumers’ growing enthusiasm for buying classical music track-by-track.

The launches Monday, reflecting the most popular individual tracks bought by classical music fans every week. The accessibility of classical music by a single download can serve to encourage sampling of the genre to a new audience.

The past two years have seen a surge in individual track download sales – up 46% in 2011 compared to 2010 (1.22m vs 834,000).

While these numbers were boosted by the success of the ’ Christmas Number 1 (which was downloaded 191,000 times on its own in 2011), download sales would still have been above 1m for the year, for the first time ever.

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