sales slump

UK NEWS: HEAT, FHM AND ZOO REPORT SALES SLUMP

Digital Spy reports that magazine titles Heat, FHM and the ‘delightful Zoo’ Magazine have all seen their sales slump during the first half of 2011. According to the website ‘FHM’s sales fell by a fifth year-on-year, while Heat dropped 21.8% year-on-year. Zoo fell 32.1% and has now shed around half of its readers in two years’. Click HERE to read more…. This isn’t really surprising news.  Print publications worldwide are seeing their sales slump too. Online media is the present and future.

NO iTUNES, NO US HITS FOR ESTELLE

British R&B star Estelle has seen her single American Boy plummet down the US chart after her latest album, Shine, was taken off iTunes in the States. Record label Warner made the move to force fans to buy the whole album, not just individual songs, reports said. American Boy, featuring Kanye West, was UK number one for a month in March. It was in the iTunes top 10 in the US before its removal. It was also at 11 on the official []