A tumultuous end-of-year for the UK physical music market has been capped by breaking news that high-street chain Zavvi has been placed into administration. It appears to be a domino-style knock-on effect from the collapse of Woolworths, whose EUK subsidiary was a key supplier for Zavvi.There have been persistent rumours around Zavvi since that news, focused on how much it may or may not owe EUK. It's more bad news for physical music distribution in the UK, although it's not clear yet whether a buyer will be found to keep Zavvi's stores open in the long-term.As a sign of how things are developing around the UK, once Woolworths closes in a few days' time, the only place to buy CDs in the decent-sized town I live in will be one Sainsbury's supermarket, which only sells the Top 40.
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