The above quoted Entertainment Director of supermarket giant Tesco, Rob Salter, has become the new chairman of the Official Charts Company, the agency which calculates all the official British music charts.

He takes over from Universal UK CEO David Joseph who began his two year term chairing the chart firm in, erm, March 2007. Yeah, that's reassuring for a company whose primary role in the music business is counting.

The OCC is jointly owned, of course, by the aforementioned Entertainment Retail Association and record label trade body the BPI, meaning the chair position is normally occupied by a retail type and record label type on rotation.