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Kerrang! up 9% to 83,988 per week. NME is just 72,057. Despite covering more mainstream acts. Still no doubt as its up 2% they will see it as justification. Still does anyone care about NME these days?

― Tim, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

While is less than a fifth of what Heat sells, which I'd imagine has as much musical ahem influence as the other two.

― Graham, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course people still care about the NME. Admittedly, these people are all members of April Long's extended family, but still...

Who's this new editor, anyway? Conor MacNichols, who I think was Mark's Irish cousin in Eastenders a few years back. Can we expect radical changes, or just more random press release regurgitating and crappy articles from Steven Wells with random words IN CAPITALS.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

72,000 for the NME really is dick all. but then, the NME has been shite for years so they have only themselves to blame.

It's odd, usually the goodness or badness of the music press runs in synch with the music scene itself, but my impression is that this is a fairly good time for music (if not for actual music sales), so the NME has no excuse for being tiresome and bland.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 19 August 2002 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a spectacularly bad time for your bog-standard meat and potatoes indie that their readership tend to go for. I really doubt that the people who listen to the music the NME desperately wants to cover would ever read it.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

most of the bands the NME writes about, they only cover because James Oldham is the business partner of the guy that signed them (Libertines anyone?).

most of the 'freelance writers' are actually just James Oldham.Terry
(or equally as fictitious. i hear Paul Brownell is actually a known female writer).

a sorry state of affairs for 'Britain's best-selling music rag'.

― tel, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

If the NME is going to be stuffed full of Steven Wells articles I'll start buying it again. I got sick of it years ago when it always seemed to be giving three column inches to dance/hip hop while having several pages every issue trying to tell me that Oasis, Stereophonics and Embrace were the most exciting acts in the world.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin- take that experience, replace them with The Vines, The Strokes, and The Coral, and there's no difference...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, 'Tel', where did you get that info abt Paul Brownell then.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

'Tel' must work in the NME accounting department and seen the cheques which definitely do not go out to 'Paul Brownell'.

― sage12to13@aol.com, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I still like the NME. Some useful information.

― Benson, Monday, 21 October 2002 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

well, if you want the latest Bluetones tour dates (Shanklin Pavilion) I'm sure it's an ideal source of reference ...

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Bluetones? Are they still around? Jeez.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And how else would we know which relishes Craig Nicholls has been eating this week?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

bluetones are still around, but CAST, man... that's an underrated band. they kicked ass, better than the beatles :-)

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard NME were selling around 35,000. Where did you get these figures from?

― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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