December 19, 201014 yr Yeah, RATM maybe, Mr Blobby not so much :lol: It's true though, 99% of the problems with this show would be solved if they just got rid of Reggie :rolleyes: Lol I was joking about mr blobby, but I'm just making a point of having chart rewind, also I like the idea of 'bubblin' under' songs, Avicii only Made 46 this week it should be much higher. Edited December 19, 201014 yr by *xmasG*
December 19, 201014 yr There really is no excuse for the regular mistakes. The producers will presumably have access to the full top 200 midweeks so they have plenty of opportunity to get their facts right. They will have the final chart at around 1.00 pm on Sunday so there is plenty of time to make last minute changes to the programme. If Reggie Yates isn't sure how to pronounce something there are plenty of people who can tell him. There is a lot of preparatory work going on here on Buzzjack before the Sunday chart show thread. That is all done by volunteers rather than paid staff but the thread runs very smoothly. We all make mistakes - after all, my commentaries have hardly been error-free. However there's a differnece between doing something as a hobby and doing it for your job. I would agree with most comments. To use a phrase I've used before, the star of a chart show should be the chart, not the presenter. I like the idea of featuring new entries - or fast climbers - between 41-75. That may mean missing out some of the top 40. If so, there should be some logic in the way the omitted tracks are chosen. They should be songs going down the chart which have been in the top 40 for a long time. No song should be left out for two weeks in a row. Interviews are fine as long as they are about music rather than biscuits or balloons. Ask what a song is about or who the writer's influences are, not whether they like jelly. Of course Reggie should go. Let's have a presenter who loves the charts more than they love the sound of their own voice.
December 19, 201014 yr Another thing that gets on my nerves is how every week they beg us all to go on the website and look on the webcam. Reggie always does something stupid, and then he's like "I look like a right idiot. Please don't go on the website and look at me!" or something. It's not even subtle. :lol: And also, I think the reason they interview so many British rappers is because they seem to pretty much live at Radio 1 anyway. Why not have a chat with them while they're there!? :lol:
December 19, 201014 yr I have to agree with Suedehead's point that there should be a system for which songs to skip- I don't mind of 1 or 2 songs are skipped per 10, but 5 or 6 every 10 songs is just far too much, and I remember earlier in the year that they skipped Fireflies for 5 weeks in a row- this is just unacceptable, if they must, maybe play a song one week then skip it the next, but then play it the next week, or look at number of weeks then skip for one week based on that- but play it the next, a song thats spent less than say 5 weeks should never be skipped (no matter how awful it is :P ) Edited December 19, 201014 yr by chart wizard
December 19, 201014 yr ^ That's a good point. It's always so frustrating when there's a song that's only going to spend a couple of weeks in the top 40, but they skip it on its second and last week. It's like if they skipped The Silence this week (I don't know if they actually did, as I wasn't listening at the time), it would've been kind of annoying.
December 20, 201014 yr Author ^ That's a good point. It's always so frustrating when there's a song that's only going to spend a couple of weeks in the top 40, but they skip it on its second and last week. It's like if they skipped The Silence this week (I don't know if they actually did, as I wasn't listening at the time), it would've been kind of annoying. It wasn't played, but to be fair, it *was* the weeks biggest faller...
December 20, 201014 yr Just play all the 40 records. Only if there's time after that add the retros/US chart/album chart/bubbling under etc. Album chart should really be on a separate show, and when it is rundown play some album tracks not just the singles off the albums.
December 20, 201014 yr Don't find Reggie personally annoying, but sometimes the mistakes he makes really indicates a dis-interest in the chart. I recall that for several weeks he referred to a record which only reached number 3 as a 'former number 1' : although no doubt a script error, if you can't even remember whether a record reached number one on your own show a few weeks back why do it? I agree the skipping of particular records is irritating - 'Tops of the Pops' used to have almost fanatical rules over what to play and not and the top 40 should do likewise, not that it isn't possible to include all 40 records Given all the plugging of their website, couldn't text messages simply be displayed online rather than read out (on a forum like this for R1 perhaps)?
December 20, 201014 yr When Mark Goodier hosted the show I could set my clock by it - 4-4:45pm positions 40-31; 4;45-5:30 pm positions 30-21. The album chart was read out at 5:30pm (Top ten) then positions 20-11 were from 5:30-6:15pm and the TopTen would be in the last 45 minutes. I miss that - the album chart rundown (which I agree should be a Top Ten) seems to move about alot. Do a recap of the Top 40 before the number 1 (I'm guessing they don't do that to encourage people to check out their website). When recapping positions 40-31 (or 30-21 etc) tell us which singles climb, fall, stay the same or are new to the chart. Personally I'd prefer the presenter to be neutral - I still recall being annoyed that JK and Joel slagged off Crazy Frog getting to number one. Thousands of people bought it - who is the chart show DJ to rip into those people. Same with their tastes in music - I know Reggie likes urban,grime,r n b etc but I don't need to know this - I had no idea what music Mark Goodier liked. I know Reggie has a man crush on Michael Buble - he tells me every time Buble is on the chart show. Mark Goodier could have had a similiar crush on Ritchie from 5ive but I didn't care - just read the chart and know your subject matter. Finally, if you're firing Reggie (I do like him as radio presenter just not so keen as a chart show host) get Scott Mills or Greg James to do it. Spot on post, Mark Goodier was the best host and I grew up listening to him do it. You could tell he was a true chart music fan, professional and loved the statistics which is what it's all about. The shoddiness of it today is awful, the hosts make a lot of mistakes and the show is more about reading texts and being annoying than anything else. Every song should be played in the 40 regardless of how good it is and the DJs should be impartial.
December 20, 201014 yr the chart shw can be improved by following these 3 little words BRING BACK FEARNE! HaHa - hysterical :w00t: have you guys seen the Morgana show on CHannel 4 - the best Fearne Cotton impersenation ever... I love it Skills!
December 20, 201014 yr Just play all the 40 records. Only if there's time after that add the retros/US chart/album chart/bubbling under etc. Album chart should really be on a separate show, and when it is rundown play some album tracks not just the singles off the albums. Good idea. I'd like to be hearing more album tracks on the radio tbh. I mean, we do occasionally hear album tracks from time to time, but with it being the download era and everything, I think we could be hearing them more. Edited December 20, 201014 yr by Eric_Blob
December 21, 201014 yr An album chart show would be good - Radio 2 had one on Monday nights in 2002 hosted by Simon Mayo. Was very good. Not sure when it stopped, though. Jo Wiley would be a good presenter for it. Slightly off topic but Radio Times is listing Radio 1 DJs playing a Top 40 on Monday 27th-Thursday 30th (Reggie, Fearne, Greg and Jo are hosting on individual days). Anyone know what format the show is? Personal charts?
December 22, 201014 yr An album chart show would be good - Radio 2 had one on Monday nights in 2002 hosted by Simon Mayo. Was very good. Not sure when it stopped, though. Jo Wiley would be a good presenter for it. Slightly off topic but Radio Times is listing Radio 1 DJs playing a Top 40 on Monday 27th-Thursday 30th (Reggie, Fearne, Greg and Jo are hosting on individual days). Anyone know what format the show is? Personal charts? I think it's personal charts. Reggie will of course miss out several songs from his top 40.
December 22, 201014 yr Reggie NEEDS to go. I'm not surprised they gave Fearne her own show, but left Reggie with the most important? I'll never get over the day he announced "Hooked On" as Britney's second single from "Blackout".
December 22, 201014 yr In terms of the length of the chart the BBC cannot broadcast positions below 40 without paying the OCC considerably more dollar! It was only the last couple of years when Ceefax/BBCi has been allowed to refer to positions below 40 in the 'last weeks' position, presumably because of bigger climbs in the download era creating more 'new entries that weren't' on the Ceefax/BBCi version as it was before. They also cannot really have a 'next week's new entries' bit of any real significance as this could be percieved as advertising for the products and could be abused by some labels/producers (maybe bunging Reggie to get more time in the new entries section for their song). I don't know about the DJs contracts but I have a theory that they only renewed Reggie's contract for the chart show on the assumption that Fearne was also renewing and when she didn't or was poached by a different R1 producer then they were stuck with Reggie for 'x' years. I have to agree that I'm a bit fed up with text's read out to tell us the vital info that Rachel in Stockport has a cold or that Stacey in London is doing the washing up or whatever. Why not keep the texts for the website service as one of it's draws. And one final thing, when did it become OK for the BBC to actively promote commercial stations shows? The X Factor gets/got huge amounts of free advertising on many BBC shows, not least on the chart show withn Regie counting his favourite moments every week. I guess the Beeb and ITV/C4 must be more like friends that love to hate each other and unite against the common enemy (Sky and digital channels) rather than the mortal enemies I remember them being in the 80s and 90s! And one more thing I've just remembered, a couple of year's ago on the chart show I Reggie was talking about Rihanna and said in passing 'It's ridiculous the amount of number ones she's had' which would maybe be fair enough if he'd said it today but at the time he said it she'd only had Umbrella and possibly Take A Bow. It stuck in my mind as I was sooo miffed that a chart show presenter could get that sooo wrong! Overall with Reggie's bufoonery on R1 and the horrible three different charts mash up on the Big Top 40 I doubt if the current teens know (or care) about what a real music chart actually is (no offence intended to anyone who is a teen, clearly if you're on this forum you do know and care about charts). Isn't there a second commercial radio chart show these days too, how does that compare to The Reggie Show and the Big Top Farce?
December 22, 201014 yr Author I agree the skipping of particular records is irritating - 'Tops of the Pops' used to have almost fanatical rules over what to play and not and the top 40 should do likewise, not that it isn't possible to include all 40 records I calculate that playing all 40 songs would take ~2.5 hours, still leaving 1/2 hr for other stuff.
December 22, 201014 yr I get the impresson all these Radio 1 Chart Show djs have a script - a really bad script at that. I've not listened to the Radio 1 chart show in ages (iirc, last time I did 'With Every Heartbeat' was in the chart :P ). Personally, I hate radio stations with a passion regardless of what time of day it is. I want to listen to music, not a DJ talking utter nonsense for 30 minutes. <_< Judging from the posts I read on here, it seems obvious that Radio 1 these days don't take the chart show seriously, produce the show very unprofessionally and I assume if the DJ's had their way, they would scrap the chart show and introduce "The Reggie's Chat For Three Hours...And Token Song" show in its place. :zzz: Again, why would I be interested in what Reggie has to say - for three hours? I've got better things to do like watching paint dry. :( I calculate that playing all 40 songs would take ~2.5 hours, still leaving 1/2 hr for other stuff. Exactly. What's the point of having a "radio edit" when they don't even play music? :blink:
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