Apple's strangle hold on UK digital sales could change the face of the UK music charts.
Independent labels in the UK feel threatened by the imminent combination of the physical and download single sales charts on April 17.
They believe that merging the charts at this stage will skew the charts - a vital ingredient in helping music lovers identify new sounds that they like - in favour of artists represented on Apple's iTunes service, which The Guardian reports holds an estimated 80 per cent of the UK's music download market.
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