Farce of the top 40 music chart

[Mendoza]

Sunday sees the first top 40 music chart where downloaded music can be entered into the chart. A new way to target a younger audience and get with the times, but a mockery can be made of this chart.

Listening to Chris Moyles this morning, he has urged his listeners to download 4 random songs, these being

Billie Piper - HOney to the Bee
Dexys Midnight runners - Come on Eileen
Kenny Logins - Footloose
Dennis Waterman - Instrumental Version OF Minder Theme Tune

It seems to be working as randomly, the 8 year old Billie Piper Song is now number 8 in the download charts, meaning it will make the top 40 easily - funny joke, but makes a good point

so if enough people can be arsed to pay 80p, ANY RANDOM song can get in to the charts, any song, say Seagulls Ska, We Want Falmer.....

 

[Frutos]

so if enough people can be arsed to pay 80p, ANY RANDOM song can get in to the charts, any song, say Seagulls Ska, We Want Falmer.....

Hmmm....

 

[Woodchip]

Cracking campaign. Just need Chris Moyles and Talk Sport on side and we should be back in the charts.

 

[Wozza]

Sunday sees the first top 40 music chart where downloaded music can be entered into the chart. A new way to target a younger audience and get with the times, but a mockery can be made of this chart.

Listening to Chris Moyles this morning, he has urged his listeners to download 4 random songs, these being

Billie Piper - HOney to the Bee
Dexys Midnight runners - Come on Eileen
Kenny Logins - Footloose
Dennis Waterman - Instrumental Version OF Minder Theme Tune

It seems to be working as randomly, the 8 year old Billie Piper Song is now number 8 in the download charts, meaning it will make the top 40 easily - funny joke, but makes a good point

so if enough people can be arsed to pay 80p, ANY RANDOM song can get in to the charts, any song, say Seagulls Ska, We Want Falmer.....

The record companies have manipulated the charts for years, now the public can - what's the problem?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Marvellous ...

Popular music is being stolen back from the generation that has proved it has no taste.

 

[Kent Seagull]

How many downloads would it take? Is it worth making this a sticky and getting it back in the top 40? could it work?

 

[Woodchip]

How many downloads would it take? Is it worth making this a sticky and getting it back in the top 40? could it work?

Only with a radio station or two on our side.

Media Gurus, we need your help (as usual)!!
Andy Naylor, when you read this, stick a bit in the Argus. There's a good lad.

 

[Kent Seagull]

Only with a radio station or two on our side.

Media Gurus, we need your help (as usual)!!
Andy Naylor, when you read this, stick a bit in the Argus. There's a good lad.

What about Southern FM, SCR and other local stations, plus the power of the internet? It's worth a try, at 80p a download no-ones gonna lose much.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

How many downloads would it take? Is it worth making this a sticky and getting it back in the top 40? could it work?

I suspect not.

The point about Seagulls Ska's week of fame was that it took less than a couple of thousand people to do the right thing at the right time.

It was all about timing - we picked the one week in the year when record sales were known to be at their lowest.

To break into a chart based on downloads would need the concerted effort of many more people.

But hey! Don't let me discourage people from downloading the only chart hit that I have ever had. Incidentally, I've always felt that the talents of the backing singers were never properly recognised.

 

[simon swagbag]

Sunday sees the first top 40 music chart where downloaded music can be entered into the chart. A new way to target a younger audience and get with the times, but a mockery can be made....

It's not about targeting anyone.
I'm 37 and have only recently got into the downloading habit. Now I can't imagine going into a high street record shop again.
I went into HMV before Christmas and the whole experience of flicking through racks of CDs felt so antiquated. The shop wasn't that busy and I noticed they'd put a coffee shop in the back. Any tactic to get punters through the door I suppose.
The chart is, by it's very nature, rubbish and I welcome a move that'll throw a few surprises at us. Does anyone pay much attention to the chart anyway? Old giffers like me want TOTP back, on a Thursday where is should be. And Pans People. I'm at the right age to "appreciate" their work now!
Downloading from the comfort of your home, with the opportunity to preview any track & select tracks from an album, is brilliant. I understand the argument against selecting album tracks, but hey-ho.
Have you heard the new Arctic Monkeys? Genius. For what it's worth, my recent dowloads have pushed Nas, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Etta James, Blondie, Skeewiff and Jay Z up the charts.

 

[The Large One]

Incidentally, I've always felt that the talents of the backing singers were never properly recognised.

Damn straight.

 

[Kent Seagull]

Maybe they would have been more appreciated if they had sung the proper words to GOSBTS!!

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Was gonna start a thread on this a few days ago (couldnt be arsed though)

Seems like a good idea, I think we should do a weekly NSC campaigne trying to get one random song into the charts

 

[sten_super]

Re: Re: Farce of the top 40 music chart

It's not about targeting anyone.
I'm 37 and have only recently got into the downloading habit. Now I can't imagine going into a high street record shop again.
I went into HMV before Christmas and the whole experience of flicking through racks of CDs felt so antiquated. The shop wasn't that busy and I noticed they'd put a coffee shop in the back. Any tactic to get punters through the door I suppose.
The chart is, by it's very nature, rubbish and I welcome a move that'll throw a few surprises at us. Does anyone pay much attention to the chart anyway? Old giffers like me want TOTP back, on a Thursday where is should be. And Pans People. I'm at the right age to "appreciate" their work now!
Downloading from the comfort of your home, with the opportunity to preview any track & select tracks from an album, is brilliant. I understand the argument against selecting album tracks, but hey-ho.
Have you heard the new Arctic Monkeys? Genius. For what it's worth, my recent dowloads have pushed Nas, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Etta James, Blondie, Skeewiff and Jay Z up the charts.

I'm 22 and therefore I'd guess only slightly over the main 'target audience' for downloads and the charts. Yet for as long as you can buy CDs etc I can't seem myself getting into downloading music in a big way, purely because I don't like the idea of not owning a physical copy of the music. I know you can copy it on to CD once downloaded etc, and to be honest I rarely even play CDs now (just copy onto my PC and away you go) but I find something a bit wrong about paying money just for a piece of data that sits on my pc. I know if I buy a CD that I have a permanent copy with no copying restrictions, etc. I also can't see myself ever impulse buying online; I like wandering into HMV and seeing a CD by a band that I've heard good things about, but would never deliberately seek out, and going and buying it. When faced with an online search engine I'm not sure I'd be inspired to buy things in the same way.

 

[dylan_bha]

Cracking campaign. Just need Chris Moyles and Talk Sport on side and we should be back in the charts.

I am sure that a female news (or maybe travel) presenter on Talk Sport is a Brighton fan, anyone know who she is??

 

[Woodchip]

I am sure that a female news (or maybe travel) presenter on Talk Sport is a Brighton fan, anyone know who she is??

That avatar is NASTY! What is it /how was it done? Is it yours?

 

[Ernest]

I'd rather cut my ears off than have to listen to that SHIT again

 

[Woodchip]

I'd rather cut my ears off than have to listen to that SHIT again

Couldn't you cut off your head instead and do us all a favour!

 

[dylan_bha]

That avatar is NASTY! What is it /how was it done? Is it yours?

No it is our own El-Abd - the injury from blades (on football boots, not the Stanley type!) that he got at Millwall

 

[Woodchip]

No it is our own El-Abd - the injury from blades (on football boots, not the Stanley type!) that he got at Millwall

OK. I'll let him have a few days off for that one.