CDs

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An exclusive retail deal with Tesco (of all companies) and a bit of manufactured hostility with Cheryl Cole didn’t save Nadine Coyle from the humiliation of shifting only 117 hard copies of her debut single on its first day of release.

She can’t complain – people just don’t buy singles any more, and the collapse of that market is squarely down to the Pop Idol/X Factor ...