Vinyl sales increase year on year in the UK despite pandemic

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: You Cannot Kill David Arquette, the SXSW doc chronicling actor Arquette’s extraordinary life and return to professional wrestling, has been picked up for UK distribution by Blue Finch Films.The company has also acquired the project’s international sales rights ahead of the AFM.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorViacomCBS International Studios, the production and distribution arm of ViacomCBS Networks International, has unified its global sales unit and promoted two long-serving UK-based sales executives.Under the new structure, the company’s international program sales division, which previously focused on tape and format sales for network-branded content outside Latin America, is coming together with VIS’s sales division, which previously focused on the studio’s

Led Zeppelin have announced a special, limited edition vinyl reissue of their single ‘Immigrant Song’ to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of their album ‘Led Zeppelin III’.The album, which kicks off with ‘Immigrant Song’, celebrates the milestone today (October 5) as it was first released in the US on October 5, 1970 before a release in the UK and elsewhere followed a few weeks later.Led Zeppelin are celebrating the ‘Led Zeppelin III’ anniversary today by announcing a reissue of the

IDLES have shot straight to the top of the Official UK Albums Chart with their new LP ‘Ultra Mono’.The band’s third album was outselling the whole of the Top Five in the midweek chart and now has reached the summit with 27,000 sales.It also overtakes Liam Gallagher‘s ‘Why Me? Why Not’ as the fastest-selling vinyl album of 2020 so far, having shifted 15,400 copies over the past week, according to the Official Charts Company.IDLES‘ last album ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’ peaked at Number Five on

Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle have canceled all large-scale events set to take place at the two royal institutions for the rest of the year. The palace released a statement regarding the cancellations today.

coronavirus tests recorded in the last 24 hours - the highest ever amount recorded since the pandemic began.It is also 3,000 more than Monday's figure and topples the previous highest figure recorded on June 25 of 6,634.The number of deaths has also increased by 71 - the highest daily total of deaths since July 1.The government said that, as of 9am on Tuesday, there had been a further 7,143 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, taking the overall number of cases confirmed to 446,156.The

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBBC Studios has closed a raft of global deals for Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated anthology drama Small Axe, which will premiere on BBC One in the UK and Amazon in the U.S.Australia’s Foxtel, France’s Salto, Spain’s Movistar+, Russia’s KinoPoisk, and Greece’s Cosmote TV are among the territories to have picked up the show.

job losses to soar with their replacement for the furlough scheme, the SNP has claimed.

State Pension is crucial for many elderly people as it provides steady payments which are guaranteed to go up by a minimum amount every year. But, future increases to the State Pension may no longer be linked to the economy as the wages of the working population flatline, experts have said.