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 May 19 2022, 07:48 AM
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Well actually it “should be” 0 as it’s a #1s session but I agree let’s not let it creep above 3!
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May 19 2022, 11:52 AM
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 I'll just stick around and do some more damage
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There have been fewer #1 albums than #1 singles (at the moment) so those won't take any longer to get through than the one we're currently working through!
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May 19 2022, 04:00 PM
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That's true actually, the albums chart didn't start until a few years after singles, and then had very slow turnover (usually The Beatles or an OST) until the 1970s. I suppose it's only in the streaming era that it really accelerated, with singles going the other way. So the #1 albums probably won't take as long as I first imagined - depending how soon it happens, since new ones are coming almost every week now
 The count of #2s is some way behind #1s - First Class is the 1050th, while the 1000th came in 2016 with DJ Snake and Justin Bieber - Let Me Love You, while there have been 85 #1s in that space of time, with As It Was being somewhere in the 1390s. So the #2 sessions shouldn't take as long either. (Incidentally, we passed the midway point in the count of #1s to date last weekend - depending on how you count the Elvis re-issues etc. it's somewhere around Meat Loaf's #1 in 1993, and even with a few new #1s by the end of the sessions, that midway point won't have moved much further forward.) |
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May 19 2022, 04:45 PM
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For about four years Calum Scott was the 1000th #2, before Mariah hit #1 and everything moved down a place haha
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May 19 2022, 05:36 PM
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Just realised that during the mid/late 80s there were all those compilations that hit #1 in the album charts
like all those Nows and Hits, lots of them actually until they changed the rules It's gonna be hard to pick songs from those according to wiki there have been 1278 #1 albums and 1397 #1 singles This post has been edited by Bjork: May 19 2022, 05:40 PM |
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May 19 2022, 06:57 PM
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What did we say the objective rule was - the highest charting song from each album (not to hit #1 or #2) - so #3 or below. Does that sound fair as an objective measure of what to pick?
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May 19 2022, 06:58 PM
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I think Bré suggested the song that has accumulated the most streams on Spotify - outside of #1s and #2s for obvious reasons - so it could throw up some potential surprises
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May 19 2022, 06:59 PM
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Ooh yeah that sounds great
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May 19 2022, 07:16 PM
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I'll just stick around and do some more damage
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Yeah that was what I was planning to go with - will also avoid repeating any songs that appear on multiple albums I guess (with compilations etc.)
It might be a little tedious to figure out what the most streamed songs are from older compilations if they're not on Spotify but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it
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May 19 2022, 08:12 PM
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Is everyone happy for “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” by Robson & Jerome to be played as a single A side rather than a triple with “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “Saturday Night at the Movies”? The OCC and Wiki give it just as a single A side, and obviously we’d rather play 5 R&J tracks than 7, but will anyone feel we’re incomplete?
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May 19 2022, 08:48 PM
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That's a difficult question! Good taste leads to one answer; a desire for completeness leads to a different answer.
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May 19 2022, 09:02 PM
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I seem to remember The Chart Show (the Saturday morning video programme) played the video of Saturday Night At The Movies while it was at #1. I've also seen it listed as a triple A-side in most books like the Guinness one, Top 40 Charts, and The Complete Book Of The British Charts. So I think the OCC and Wiki listing it as a single A-side is a result of space-saving and/or sloppiness, and for completeness all 3 songs should count. Sorry to be the bearer!
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May 19 2022, 09:05 PM
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And in that case do we need to go back and play The Smile Song? 😅😅😅
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May 19 2022, 09:21 PM
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I feel Wiki and the OCC are trying to spare us as much as possible, we should take this lifeline x
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May 19 2022, 09:25 PM
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hahaha true + the occ is never wrong
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May 19 2022, 09:35 PM
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QUOTE(JulianT @ May 19 2022, 10:05 PM)  And in that case do we need to go back and play The Smile Song? 😅😅😅 It isn't listed in any of those books I mentioned. |
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May 19 2022, 09:38 PM
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Also, do I include imports as part of the overall chart run?
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May 20 2022, 05:55 AM
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The OCC considers imports as separate entries
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May 20 2022, 07:50 AM
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I would be tempted to add the import runs in, but I don’t think the Chart Gods will be too angry if you miss a few!
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May 20 2022, 08:30 AM
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usually the imports were from different labels/countries so have a different code so counts as a different separate entry per the occ
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