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• Teens clash at summit of US albums chart
  

  Tussling teens tough it out at the top of the US albums chart this week and the winner is 18-year-old country star Taylor Swift.

  
  
  
• Craig David manager takes on Hollywood
  

  Former Wildlife Entertainment director Colin Lester has launched a management company, CLM, and has hired former Warner Bros UK general manager Adam Hollywood as a consultant.

  
  
  
• London studio set to enter liquidation
  

  West London mastering studio Heathmans is set to enter liquidation in early December, after appointing David Rubin and Partners to help with the process.

  
  
  
• Take That ready to shine for Radio Two
  

  Take That are to perform a mini set on Radio Two at the beginning of next month as part of the promotion for their new studio album.

  
  
  
• Leona denying Dido a Safe Trip to number one
  

  Dido and Leona Lewis are subject to one of the closest first-day sales battles of the year so far, with fewer than 500 units separating their albums in the race for number one.

  
  
  
• Millett gets Connected
  

  Guillemots? manager Ed Millett has joined Connected Artists, the Covent Garden-based artist management company headed by James Morrison manager Paul McDonald.

  
  
  
• Hendrix drummer dies
  

  Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell has died at the age of 61.

  
  
  
• Industry accountant and charity campaigner dies
  

  Music industry accountant and charity campaigner Jason Boas has died from pancreatic cancer.

  
  
  
• X Factor Heroes are year's biggest
  

  The X Factor Finalists? cover of Hero (Syco) has become the highest-selling single of 2008, after selling another 37,000 copies.

  
  
  
• Another Hero week on the charts
  

  The X Factors Finalists? rendition of Mariah Carey?s Hero continues to dominate the singles chart, enjoying an emphatic second week at the summit on sales of 189,600 copies.

  
  
  
• William Hill bemoans X Factor Christmas dominance
  

  William Hill has blasted Simon Cowell for killing the Christmas singles market with the X Factor winners single, which has for the past three years claimed the number one position in the all-important festive chart.

  
  
  
• Papale quits the Firm
  

  Michael Papale has left Beverly Hills-based management company The Firm.

  
  
  
• Metropolis creates One Stop Shop
  

  Metropolis has launched its new One Stop Shop service, allowing the studio to provide help in areas such as creative, production, marketing and interactive services.

  
  
  
• AC/DC top US albums chart for second week - but sales still slide
  

  With AC/DC?s Black Ice surging past the million sales mark on its second week on release, and 11 debuts in the Top 20 it looks as though the US album market is in recovery ? but looks can be deceptive.

  
  
  
• Procol Harum case heads to appeal
  

  The long-standing legal battle over song writing credits on Procol Harum?s A White Shade Of Pale is heading to the House Of Lords, after the chamber granted organist Matthew Fisher permission to appeal.

  
  
  
• Will.i.am to air new song celebrating Obama win
  

  Will.i.am is to debut a new song online today to mark Barack Obama?s victory in the US presidential election.

  
  
  
• Pop battles indie for the albums charts crown
  

  Pop looks set to vanquish indie once more at the top of the albums charts, with Girls Aloud?s Out Of Control (Fascination) taking a commanding lead ahead of Razorlight?s new album Slipway Fires (Vertigo).

  
  
  
• Pink leads raft of new entries in buoyant albums charts
  

  Album sales also enjoy a significant increase week-on-week but there?s a whole raft of hot new entries whose release contributed to the sector?s 15.0% increase week-on-week to 2,450,275 sales.

  
  
  
• Pet Shop Boys to be honoured
  

  The Pet Shop Boys are to receive the outstanding contribution to music award at the 2009 Brits.

  
  
  
• AC/DC debut at number one in the US
  

  Uniting global musical tastes, veteran rockers AC/DC?s Black Ice album debuts at number one in 29 countries, and there was never a chance that America would not be one of them.