Copied from Robbie's post on Haven...

 

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This is the first time this has happened for ages.

 

Due to an error the OCC have had to rerun the compilation of both the Singles and Albums charts.

 

The OCC have published this announcement:

 

DECEMBER 28th: Last night, Millward Brown discovered a bug in the weighting software used to compile the charts, which has affected a number of positions in the charts published on Sunday December 26. As a result, the OCC has decided to re-run all of this week’s Official Charts. In relation to the Top 40 Singles and Albums Charts, the errors are minimal. But if you wish to correct any charts which you publish online, or simply use the attached charts for reference purposes, please feel free.

Millward Brown is conducting a thorough review of the processes and systems in light of this error. OCC and Millward Brown apologise for any inconvenience caused.

 

It hasn't affected the upper reaches of either chart but a few singles lower down the chart have shuffled around a little bit.

 

The full story is at James Masterton's blog at yahoo

 

http://www.masterton.co.uk/2010/12/excuse-...-adjust-myself/

 

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Since JM suggests that it is data from some supermarket that was affected, I dare say it will have affected Matt Cardle's sales too. Obviously it won't affect his chart *position*, but if it reduces his sales figure for last week, it'll obviously make it slightly harder for him to catch Em/Ri...

 

ISTM the OCC's description of the error's effect being 'mininal' is downplaying the situation somewhat, as an error than can drop a T20 single 4 places seems significant to me!

 

BTW, the OCC still have the old, incorrect, chart on their website ATM.

Edited December 29, 201014 yr by vidcapper

Wow. I thought this thread was going to be a joke when I first saw the title! :o

 

I don't have time to read it now, but this could be so annoying. Like I bet all the chart archive websites won't update their charts, etc.

Wow :o Rather shocking!

 

Pleased to see Heroes actually 4 places lower! Which means that Jessie's new peak is actually #21, and McFly returned to the top 20 :o I'll choose to ignore the resultant higher peak for Girls by N-Dubz :puke:

I didn't expect this! :o Hopefully this means that it will make Matt's chances to be the best selling single of the year smaller. :heehee:

McFly #20

:o

 

So the only tracks in question are X Factor, McFly, N-Dubz, JLS and Jesse J

 

Which should be like this

 

18 N-Dubz

19 JLS

20 McFly

21 Jesse J

22 X Factor Finalists

I didn't expect this! :o Hopefully this means that it will make Matt's chances to be the best selling single of the year smaller. :heehee:

 

Actually, it *does*!

 

I've just seen a revised YTD list, and he is now 3rd, rather than 2nd, so his revised sales figure must be at least 7.2k lower! :o

Spot a pattern here? Rod Stewart, The Beatles and Take That are the artists whose sales appear to have been overstated in the original chart rundown – all of them acts who one would expect to be selling in supermarkets rather than specialist music shops. The fact that lower down it is Daniel O’Donnell and the Chelsea Pensioners who slip places only reinforces that suggestion. The data from some supermarket chain got accidentally scrambled and forced this extraordinary correction.

Interesting! I would like to see revised sales figures.

Interesting! I would like to see revised sales figures.

 

You & me, both! ;)

Does anyone know where the revised top 100's are available online?

Does anyone know where the revised top 100's are available online?

 

 

If you read the article, the revised top 100's won't be online till next week, when the Xmas hols is over.

Interesting! I would like to see revised sales figures.

Perhaps averages could be estimated from the general trajectories of the falls of these tracks/albums? For example by figuring out the projected differences between the sales in the first chart and how many fewer sales they'd need to have made to fall below the track/album now immediately above them, if anybody's got the figures?

This week's commentary has now been corrected to how the revised singles and album positions

This week's commentary has now been corrected to how the revised singles and album positions

 

 

Are we talking Music Week commentary, as I don't recall even seeing it posted here this week?

Are we talking Music Week commentary, as I don't recall even seeing it posted here this week?

 

I think Suedehead is refering to his own personal chart commentary that is posted on Buzzjack every Sunday. ;)

On a cursory inspection of the position changes in the YTD album chart, it appears that some of the top-selling albums may have been overstated by well over 10%.

 

For example, it would appear that Rihanna has in fact 'lost' over 55k sales (the minimum amount needed to drop her 2 places on the YTD's).

Looks like the sales for last week went all radio ga ga :heehee:

Where is everyone getting this information from! Even though they are saying there isn't anything? :unsure:

On a cursory inspection of the position changes in the YTD album chart, it appears that some of the top-selling albums may have been overstated by well over 10%.

 

For example, it would appear that Rihanna has in fact 'lost' over 55k sales (the minimum amount needed to drop her 2 places on the YTD's).

 

What a fiasco :drama:

 

So Loud may not have cleared 250k last week? Are they saying that this one supermarket chain in question for the error (according to that James Masterton article) was responsible for perhaps 100k of Loud's total sales for the week? :o I call Tesco!

PLAN B FOR END OF YEAR #4! :D