Just found out this is a 53 week year! Therefore this week's sales count for 2009 YTD! Also the positions achieved in Sun's chart (27/12/2009, week 53, issue date 2/1/10) count for this year!

 

MFR is correct with the statement regarding methodology, the last 53 week year was 2004 :)

 

Hope that helps

Just found out this is a 53 week year! Therefore this week's sales count for 2009 YTD! Also the positions achieved in Sun's chart (27/12/2009, week 53, issue date 2/1/10) count for this year!

 

MFR is correct with the statement regarding methodology, the last 53 week year was 2004 :)

 

Hope that helps

 

So you mean the best single sellers of 09 are not finished this year. So that means we could hear the chart next week/year i mean :o

So, on the "official" rundown of the decade's best selling albums, they've just announced Susan Boyle at number at number 56. If they're announcing this early, with another week's sales to add, her album could easily sell another couple of hundred thousand which would have pushed it up, say ten places.

 

Other artists with currently selling albums will also be affected - e.g. Lady Gaga.

 

What's the point in publishing the list if it's just plain wrong? :mellow:

 

Susan won't be selling 200,000 copies this week... past years in this respective week the #1 album has been hard pushed for 50,000.

This thread must be the highlight of the year for me. :lol:

This thread should be used for all matters of confusion. :kink:

This thread must be the highlight of the year for me. :lol:

 

Thank you. :)

So you mean the best single sellers of 09 are not finished this year. So that means we could hear the chart next week/year i mean :o

I don't know if when well here but far as I know 1 more week

Well, I still think it is bizarre that we're listening to the "official" top albums and singles of the decade, while for charts purposes there is still one more week to run. I appreciate - as has been pointed out above - that there won't be a lot of change. And yet, being new to forum and catching up on old threads avidly, I get a sense that accuracy is important to a lot of forum members, with sales figures being corrected by other posters by a thousand or two and such corrections being gratefully received by the OP.

 

Equally bizarre to me is the concept, mentioned above in response to my earlier post, that the cut-off has been made deliberately early so that the radio shows can achieve a wider audience. Eh?

 

I've also picked up from a thread here that the year-end singles and album charts will be published on Saturday! How can that be, when the chart week runs until midnight Saturday, if it's to include another week's sales?

 

Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the 2009 run downs we hear on Saturday are exactly what we already know as YTD sales. i.e. the chart announced on Sunday 27/12 is considered to be year end. Nothing else makes sense, IMHO.

 

Brilliant site BTW - wish I'd found it yonks ago.

Edited December 29, 200915 yr by mickeypops

I'm still not sure whether we know for certain that this year has 52 or 53 sales weeks.

 

Historically, it was common for Radio 1 to broadcast a year-chart that was one week short of the full year (it was 2 or 3 weeks short prior to Gallup's tenure as it took longer to compile charts in those days without sophisticated computers). Obviously, radio wants to broadcast these charts in late December or very early January rather than later. Late January would have been the earliest possible time in the 1970s.

 

In Gallup's time the last sales day of the year was the Saturday between December 28th and January 3rd inclusive. OCC moved this to December 27th to January 2nd inclusive as demonstrated by 1998 and 2004 being 53-week years rather than 1997 and 2003.

 

This year-end that Saturday would be January 2nd 2010. Perhaps because it's also the decade-end they may have chosen Saturday December 26th as the last sales day, but that would be setting a precedent.

 

As I posted earlier, in the days when we didn't have weekly updates or pretty much any sales figures, those 51-week charts on Radio 1, used in conjunction with the full-year chart could tell you quite a bit about sales.

 

By the way, I also don't understand how year-end charts could be published on Saturday when a 53-week year would not quite have ended, but maybe that is not what was meant.

 

 

I'm not reading anymore. :w00t:

 

* Decides to wait on Mikey posting the YTD Top 20 at 7pm on Sunday *

Edited December 30, 200915 yr by Dave B

BBC were gonna do all the top 100 singles and albums of the decade stuff now though - while the christmas holidays are still on. I just can't see them doing it next week no matter what the end week was