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Caroline Sullivan describes the marketing behind James Morrison.
There is one point I would like to know more about:
"You can't really engineer this, but if iTunes likes you, they might well feature your album on their main page, with a suggestion that visitors have a listen. Consequently, so many iPeople bought You Give Me Something that it was the site's most downloaded track a couple of weeks ago."