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Statistics released by the BPI have revealed that sales of albums in the UK dropped by 10% in 2012.

The figures also showed that as well as overall sales figures for albums being down, the CD album  has suffered the most with a drop of 19.5 percent from the previous year and only 69.4m albums sold.

Times have moved on since the days where party goers sang “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year's Eve and perhaps not surprisingly, it didn't feature in the top 20 list of songs played on the occasion.

Green Day have announced that they will be heading back on the road after their lead singer/ guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong has finished a stint in rehab for substance abuse.

Hugely successful South Korean rapper Psy has hinted that New Year's Eve could be the last we hear of his hit song "Gangnam Style".

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins appeared in court today over a number of child sex offense charges which include conspiracy to rape a one year old girl.

YouTube have cancelled billions of music video views claiming that they were faked.

The move means that many high profile artists have seen the number of views on many of their songs dramatically decrease.

Gary Barlow is closing down his record company, Future Records so that he can spend more time with his family.

The Take That and X Factor star has a lot of business commitments and running the record label is one of the biggest so he is selling it in order to see his family more and also to focus his attentions on other projects.

The Official Charts Company has announced that she has just edged ahead of Oasis’s record for their 1995 album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” which to date has shifted 4,555,000 copies, whereas sales of “21” have just reached 4,562,000 copies.

James Arthur may have just missed out on the Christmas number one spot but it looks as though he might be having an excellent start to the New Year with his single “Impossible” climbing back up to the top spot in the mid-week charts.

Natasha Hamilton has revealed that 90s girl band Atomic Kitten will be making a comeback in 2013.

Rumours started flying that she will be returning along with fellow band mates Liz McClarnon Kerry Katona after the trio were seen together in London in November.

Simon Cowell is reportedly hoping to get supermodel Kate Moss on board to help with styling for next year’s series of the X Factor.

This year’s series has struggled to pull in viewers with ratings slumping to an all time low for the show so Cowell has hinted that a major overhaul could be on the cards.

It has been revealed that Tulisa is poised to quit the X Factor according to her father.

Plato Contosavlos told magazine celebrity gossip magazine Now: "Tulisa doesn't want to be there. She's bored of it. She doesn't need The X Factor, she's got N-Dubz," Plato Constavlos tells the celebrity magazine.

Muhammad Nazir, the man behind the novelty song that invaded the Christmas charts; “One Pound Fish”, has been deported back to his native country Pakistan.

Former Scary Spice Mel B could be in line to replace Tulisa on the X Factor for the new series in 2013.

She was a guest judge for some of the auditions in the 2012 series and is currently a judge on the Australian version of the show but she reportedly wants to move back to the UK, and taking the job would allow her the perfect opportunity.

Since the advent of the internet, enjoying music has become much easier. Today, you will get everything on the internet starting form karaoke version backing tracks to magnificent music videos. At present, the internet is enough to make a musician, singer or performer popular and wealthy, the newest example of such effects of the internet is Psy.

Rihanna’s security team saw some festive action when a crazed fan managed to get within 12 feet of the singer while she was sunbathing at her holiday home in Barbados.

She is having some down time in her homeland after an eventful year of touring and many personal relationship issues.

The Justice Collective just managed to snatch the Christmas number one title away from James Arthur after one of the closest battles in three years.

The track, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” managed to sell over 269,000 copies beating James Arthur’s song “Impossible” by 45,000 copies, despite James taking an early lead in the first half of the week.

Singer Adele has reportedly trademarked her own name in order to stop it being used against products that she hasn't endorsed herself.

She has filed an application with the Intellectual Property Office according to the Sun newspaper.

Tulisa has come under fire after apparently shouting abuse at a girl who greeted her boyfriend outside a club.

Tulisa was with her boyfriend Danny Simpson and they had hit Newcastle after Simpson had played in the Newcastle v Manchester City match.

A Swedish man has been awarded state disability benefits for his addiction to heavy metal music after a long campaign.

42 year old Roger Tullgren claimed: "I have been trying for 10 years to get this classified as a handicap.

The Government are planning to reform copyright laws which will finally make ripping music from CDs legal for the first time ever.

Currently it is technically illegal to create digital copies of music from CDs to allow transfer onto MP3 players but the Government’s Business Secretary Vince Cable has said: "Bringing the law into line with ordinary people's reasonable expectations will boost respect for copyright, on which our creative industries rely."