Woolworths has decided not to stock CD singles due to declining sales.
The chain, the UK's biggest retailer of singles, attribute the death of the format to the rise in downloading.
Jim Batchelor, Woolworths' commercial director, said: "Digital downloading is now the true customer choice for listening and purchasing single music tracks.
"CDs are alive and well for album sales, but unfortunately the physical singles market is in terminal decline."
The store will continue to stock high profile singles, however, such as those released by the winners of television talent competitions like 'X Factor'.
The move will take place in August, and Woolworths have expanded their online store as a result.
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Yes frontman diagnosed with respiratory failure, tour cancelled
TORONTO - The frontman for legendary rock band Yes has been diagnosed with acute respiratory failure and is cancelling the band's upcoming reunion tour.
Jon Anderson says doctors advised him not to work for at least six months, warning that he could suffer further health complications. The band had been preparing for a 26-city tour that was scheduled to kick off in Quebec next month.
Anderson was admitted to hospital last month after suffering a severe asthma attack.
He says he's deeply disappointed by the turn of events and had been looking forward to the 40th anniversary tour.
Bassist Chris Squire says he knows many fans and friends have bought non-refundable airfares and hotel stays but asked that they join him in wishing Anderson a speedy recovery.
Concert promoter Live Nation says ticket refunds will be available at the point of purchase.
"I'd like everyone to know how deeply disappointed I am by this turn of events," Anderson said Wednesday in a release.
"I was looking forward to celebrating our music with the amazing family of Yes fans once again; but as we all know, health must come before anything else."
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
See Also
Dwight Yoakam
Artist: Dwight Yoakam
Genre(s):
Country
Other
Soundtrack
Pop
Discography:
Dwight Sings Buck
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
Blame the Vain
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
The Best Of
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Dwight's Used Records
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Population Me
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
In Others' Words
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Reprise Please Baby CD4
Year: 2002
Tracks: 21
Reprise Please Baby CD3
Year: 2002
Tracks: 22
Reprise Please Baby CD2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Reprise Please Baby CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 24
South of Heaven West of Hell
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
Tomorrow's Sounds Today
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Dwightyoakamacoustic.net
Year: 2000
Tracks: 25
A Long Way Home
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Come on Christmas
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Gone
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Dwight Live
Year: 1995
Tracks: 17
Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Greatest Hits from the 1990's
Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
If There Was a Way
Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
Hillbilly Deluxe
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc , Etc
Year: 1984
Tracks: 1
With his stripped-down Bakersfield country, Dwight Yoakam helped rejoin land music to its roots in the late '80s. Like his idols Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams, Yoakam never played by Nashville's rules; therefore, he never dominated the charts like his contemporaneous Randy Travis. Then once again, Travis never played around with the sound and style of land music like Yoakam. On each of his records, he twists about the form sufficiency to make it seem like he doesn't respect all of country's traditions. Appropriately, his cORE audience was composed in the main of roots stone and rock-and-roll & roll fans, not the mainstream commonwealth interview. Nevertheless, he was oft able to graph in the land Top Ten, and he remained 1 of the most respected and adventuresome recording land artists substantially into the '90s.
Born in Kentucky just raised in Ohio, Yoakam knowing how to fiddle guitar at the age of sextuplet. As a child, he listened to his mother's record collection, honing in on the traditional country of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, as well as the Bakersfield honkey tonk of Buck Owens. When he was in high school day, Yoakam played with a change of bands, playacting everything from area to rock & roll out. After complementary highschool school, Yoakam briefly tended to Ohio State University, simply he dropped out and stirred to Nashville in the late '70s with the purport of decorous a recording artist.
At the time he stirred to Nashville, the townspeople was in the throes of the pop-oriented urban cowhand movement and had no interest in his updated honkey tonk. While in Nashville, he met guitar player Pete Anderson, wHO shared out a like discernment in music. The couple touched out to Los Angeles, where they found a more appreciative interview than they did in Nashville. In L.A., Yoakam and Anderson didn't just play land clubs, they played the like nightclubs that toughie and post-punk rock bands like X, the Dead Kennedys, Los Lobos, the Blasters, and the Butthole Surfers did. What Yoakam had in unwashed with rock'n'roll bands like X, the Blasters, and Los Angeles was interchangeable melodic influences; they all drew from '50s rock & roll out and area. In comparability to the polished music sexual climax proscribed of Nashville, Yoakam's stripped-down, direct revivalism seemed radical. The cowpunks, as they were called, that tended to Yoakam's shows provided an priceless support for his newbie career.
Yoakam released an independent EP, A Town South of Bakersfield, in 1984, which received strong airplay on Los Angeles college and alternative radio stations. The EP too helped him din Land a record contract with Reprise Records. Dwight's uncut debut album, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., was released in 1986 and was an crying sentiency. Rock and country critics praised it and it earned airplay on college stations across America. More importantly, it was a hit on the land charts, as its first base single, a cover of Johnny Horton's "Honkie Tonk Man," climbed to number three in the outflow, followed by the number quatern "Guitars, Cadillacs" in the summer. The album would eventually go atomic number 78.
Bushwhacker Deluxe, Dwight's 1987 follow-up, was equally successful, spawning four Top Ten hits: "Little Sister," "Little Ways," "Please, Please Baby," and "Always Late with Your Kisses." In 1988, Yoakam had his first number ane hit with "Streets of Bakersfield," a cover of a Buck Owens song recorded with Owens himself. It was the first single cancelled his third album, Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room, which continued his streak of Top Ten hits. "I Sang Dixie," the album's second single, went to figure one, and "I Got You" reached number fin. In 1989, Yoakam released a compilation album, Just Lookin' for a Hit, which went amber. "Long White Cadillac," interpreted from the compendium, stalled at figure 35 in the come of 1989.
Although his 1990 album If There Was a Way didn't cause as many Top Ten hits, it was a major success; it was his number one album since his debut to go atomic number 78. This Time, released in the spring of 1993, was an regular larger hit, spawning threesome number 2 singles -- "Ain't That Lonely Yet," "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere," and "Fast as You" -- and departure pt. After its button, Yoakam was silent for two geezerhood, reversive in the summer of 1995 with Dwight Live, which didn't set the charts on ardour. In the light of that year, he released his sixth album, Departed, which went gold by the saltation of 1996, although it didn't bring forth whatever major nation hits. After 1997's Under the Covers, a collecting of compensate songs, Yoakam returned with the all-new A Long Way Home in 1998. Another compiling, Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Greatest Hits from the '90s, was released in 1999; its freshly recorded version of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" became Yoakam's biggest hit in 6 geezerhood, regular hitting the depress reaches of the pop charts thanks to its exposure in a khakis commercial-grade. Two albums followed in 2000: dwightyoakamacoustic.net, a bare bones, all-acoustic revisitation of Yoakam's back catalog; and the more monetary standard studio visualise Tomorrow's Sounds Today, which featured farther collaborations with Buck Owens and a cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me."
In 2001, Yoakam debuted as a writer and film director, as well issuance the soundtrack South of Heaven, West of Hell to companion it. Two long time later, he debuted on a new judge (Audium) with Population Me, piece Reprise issued the compiling In Others' Words to compete with it. In 2004 he released Dwight's Used Records, a 14-track anthology of duets that appeared on former artists' albums, unreleased covers, and cuts Yoakam contributed to various protection compilations. An album of all new material, the self-generated Charge the Vain, followed in 2005 along with the live album, Live from Austin, TX. An album of Buck Owens covers, Dwight Sings Buck, appeared in 2007.
Will & Grace star agrees film deal
'Will & Grace' star Debra Messing has joined the cast of a new family drama-comedy called 'Humboldt Park'.
Variety reports that the cast of the film also includes John Leguizamo, Alfred Molina, Freddy Rodriguez, Jay Hernandez, Mercedes Ruehl, Luis Guzman, Melonie Diaz and Vanessa Ferlito.
'Humboldt Park' tells the story of three siblings who return to the family home for a festive visit.
Messing will play the wife of Leguizamo's character.
Shooting on the Alfredo De Villa-directed film begins next week in Chicago.
Variety reports that the cast of the film also includes John Leguizamo, Alfred Molina, Freddy Rodriguez, Jay Hernandez, Mercedes Ruehl, Luis Guzman, Melonie Diaz and Vanessa Ferlito.
'Humboldt Park' tells the story of three siblings who return to the family home for a festive visit.
Messing will play the wife of Leguizamo's character.
Shooting on the Alfredo De Villa-directed film begins next week in Chicago.
Scrubs star becomes a father again
'Scrubs' star John C McGinley is celebrating the birth of a baby girl with his wife Nichole Kessler.
The actor, who plays Dr Perry Cox on the hit TV show, told People magazine that the couple plans to name the child Billie Grace.
Kessler delivered baby Billie Grace in a birthing tub at the couple's home in Malibu at the weekend.
McGinley told People: "Nichole was a mountain lion, a warrior in the birthing process. The birth was astonishing! Mom and baby girl are 100%."
The couple got married last April. The baby is McGinley's second child. He has a 10-year-old son, Max, from a previous relationship.
The actor, who plays Dr Perry Cox on the hit TV show, told People magazine that the couple plans to name the child Billie Grace.
Kessler delivered baby Billie Grace in a birthing tub at the couple's home in Malibu at the weekend.
McGinley told People: "Nichole was a mountain lion, a warrior in the birthing process. The birth was astonishing! Mom and baby girl are 100%."
The couple got married last April. The baby is McGinley's second child. He has a 10-year-old son, Max, from a previous relationship.
will.i.am joins the Wolverine film
Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am is to star opposite Hugh Jackman in the new blockbuster 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
Billboard reports that will.i.am, real name William Adams, will play the mutant Wraith in the 'X-Men' spinoff.
Wraith has the power to make himself translucent.
The cast of the new film also includes '30 Days of Night' star Danny Huston, 'Friday Night Lights' star Taylor Kitsch and 'The Number 23' star Lynn Collins.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is due in cinemas on 1 May 2009.
Billboard reports that will.i.am, real name William Adams, will play the mutant Wraith in the 'X-Men' spinoff.
Wraith has the power to make himself translucent.
The cast of the new film also includes '30 Days of Night' star Danny Huston, 'Friday Night Lights' star Taylor Kitsch and 'The Number 23' star Lynn Collins.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is due in cinemas on 1 May 2009.
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