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Cherry Red Records (formerly Cherry Pop Records) is a British independent record label founded in Malvern, Worcestershire by Iain McNay in 1978. The label has released recordings by Dead Kennedys , Everything but the Girl , The Monochrome Set , and Felt , among others, as well as the compilation album Pillows & Prayers .
Pillows & Prayers (subtitled Cherry Red 1982-1983) is a compilation album released at Christmas 1982, featuring artists on the Cherry Red record label. The record was originally sold at 99 pence (in fact, "pay no more than 99p" was printed on the original sleeve), which helped ensure that the album peaked and remained at number 1 on the UK Indie Chart for five weeks and sold over 120,000 copies.
You Scare Me to Death was released in 1981 by record label Cherry Red.The album reached No. 88 on the UK Albums Chart. [2] The title track was originally called "Horrible Breath" and was written as a proposed television jingle for Amplex tablets.
Cherry Red: 5 weeks 11 July "New Life" Depeche Mode: Mute: 7 weeks 29 August "One in Ten" UB40: DEP International: 4 weeks 26 September "Just Can't Get Enough" Depeche Mode: Mute: 2 weeks 10 October "Procession" New Order: Factory: 3 weeks 31 October "Thunder in the Mountains" Toyah: Safari: 4 weeks 28 November "Six Guns" Anti-Pasti: Rondelet ...
The UK Indie Chart was created in 1978 by Cherry Red Records founder Iain McNay, [7] and, like the breakers chart, lists only albums and singles released by independent record labels in the UK. Until June 2009, a single was classed as "indie" if it was shipped by a distribution service that was independent of the four major record companies ...
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The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom.Originally published in January 1980, [1] and widely known as the indie chart, the relevance of the chart dwindled in the 1990s as major-label ownership blurred the boundary between independent and major labels.
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