The suspense! The slaughter! What we learned from the download chart

It’s the anniversary that nobody is celebrating – the download chart’s 10th birthday. Here’s a rundown of its impact on the industry, and the way we buy and listen to musicThere was no party. Champagne went unpopped. Sombre talking heads were not wheeled out for a special on BBC Four. Yet last week was a significant anniversary in the UK charts – where legal downloads, then a bewildering new “format”, were incorporated into the full UK singles chart. There was an uncomfortable peri