Wonderful One FM ordered to cut costs (link to the Independent, so it'll probably be subscription only by tomorrow), as if it doesn't sound cheap enough. For some reason the Indy speculates this could mean an end to the top 40, because of course nobody needs a guideline to who's popular as The Downloading Takes Over (as shown by Gorillaz shifting almost twice as many CD singles in a week than downloads in the previous six). The contract with the Official Charts Company - crazy name, crazy guys - is hardly £2m a year, is it?
You're advised, by the way, not to read the same paper's interview with Andy Parfitt, as it includes the breathtaking line "Colin and Edith have got that intelligence and wit and sense of humour. It's in the same country as Mark and Lard." This "intelligence" and "wit" was of course illustrated in the Sunday Times a few months ago when Colin Murray commented that nobody would remember who they'd taken over from by now as Mark and Lard fans "are closer to drawing their pension than to their eighteenth birthday".
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