The record industry hopes the revamped chart will revitalise interest in the top 40 by reflecting what people are buying, rather than what is available in shops.
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From the peak in July, 2006, home values have dropped about 33%, which is already a record decline, according to the chart published by The Big Picture.
American rock band Fall Out Boy entered at number two in the album chart with with their fifth record, Save Rock And Roll.
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Instead, his legacy will linger in the shape of the biggest economic imbalances in American history: a negative household saving rate and a record current-account deficit (see chart 1).
As superlawyer Stanley Chesley learned last year in a case involving fraudulent fen-phen claims, attorneys of record, like doctors signing off on a chart, bear responsibility for whatever happens later.
Grammy award-winning singer Michael Buble topped the album chart with his third UK number one record in a row, To Be Loved.
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This second chart shows the top twenty countries across which the record 1.2 billion downloads were distributed.
The outliers' long-run record of stability is far from confidence-inspiring (see chart 2 on previous page).
Its record on balancing growth and inflation is decent enough (see chart 1).
In 2001 the deficit was equivalent to 0.5% of global GDP, but by next year the IMF's forecasts imply that the surplus could hit a record 0.8% of GDP (see left-hand chart).
Moreover, Italy's strong employment record has a downside: zero or even negative productivity growth (see chart 4), as more marginal and less productive workers have been brought into the workforce.
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America's ratio of house prices to rents is at a record high, 26% above its average over the 25 years to 2000 (see chart).
Not only is that a record high in the short history of the series, which started in January 1997 (see chart).
Despite record sales, only 4% of the population has a car, a relatively low figure (see chart).
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