Radio 2 DJ Sarah Kennedy is leaving the station after “17 years of early starts”.

Rough Trade retail director Stephen Godfroy is using Twitter to ask music fans where they think his company should be heading, even asking for their thoughts on where Rough Trade should open a new store.

Absolute Radio is launching a new show devoted to “songs listeners won’t hear anywhere else” on the station.

Bug Music has promoted UK general manger Roberto Neri to vice president of international, a role that will see him focus on the publisher’s international operations.

Katy Perry completes a transatlantic takeover at the top of the albums charts this week, her Teenage Dream album dethroning Eminem’s Recovery in America, as it looks set to do in Britain.