From a chart point of view, I think this could be pretty boring, but on the whole, it's a good thing imo. I mean seriously. We've had to wait like 4 months or something for Ke$ha's new song. :drama: It's just embarrassing.

 

 

THIS :lol:

 

Im sick of waiting for ke$ha now. Im nearly bored of it :(

THIS :lol:

 

Im sick of waiting for ke$ha now. Im nearly bored of it :(

 

It's been in the US charts 11 weeks, that's basically 3 months. I grew out of it a long time ago

 

It reached 5 on my personal chart (somehow) but is nowhere to be seen on it anymore, and has been like that for some time. I don't really like the song and I'm sure the UK public will be thinking the same, so hopefully it only just makes top 5, but not any higher and then falls down.

 

Songs being available earlier is a good idea, Take That & Robbie would have easily gone to number one if it was released much earlier.

the worry is that more acts will have chart runs like the time by the black eyed peas, only artifically rising to no1 after a major piece of tv promo after 6 weeks in the top 40?!!

 

Don't forget that happened to Bad Romance aswell.

 

Just saying. In 2009 everybody whined about how Meet Me Halfway was performed on X Factor and got to #1, but people conveniently didn't whine about Bad Romance doing the same. :lol: Oh, it would've gotten to #1 anyway. Of course! :lol:

 

But yeah, if all songs were released straight away we wouldn't be getting these massive first week sales of 150,000, so it'd be much easier to get #1 due to some TV promo.

 

Infact, the only songs I can think of since I've been following the sales figures that have cilmbed to sales of over 100,000 in a week are Meet Me Halfway, Just the Way You Are and What's My Name? All 3 did so after being performed on the X Factor. There's probably a couple of others too that I've forgotten. This could mean a decrease in songs selling over 100,000 in a week, although I think there'll be more sales overall each week, which is the more important thing.

 

Oh, and one of the worst from last year was Happiness by Alexis Jordan which I heard for the first time on the radio in June (and it might've been played before that, because I don't listen to all radio stations 24/7, so I might've missed its premiere), and it got released in November or something? And people were like "Wow, it's a shock she got to #3. I haven't heard the song yet", and I literally wanted to facepalm! Do those people live under a rock or something?!?! :lol:

Edited January 18, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

Woah! Surprising ... but very logical. And exciting.

Infact, the only songs I can think of since I've been following the sales figures that have cilmbed to sales of over 100,000 in a week are Meet Me Halfway, Just the Way You Are and What's My Name? All 3 did so after being performed on the X Factor. There's probably a couple of others too that I've forgotten. This could mean a decrease in songs selling over 100,000 in a week, although I think there'll be more sales overall each week, which is the more important thing.

 

Didn't Simon Cowell say he had plans for a new weekly music show or something along those lines? As much as people tend to hate him, he's a brilliant businessman and knows exactly what to do. So imagine if there was a high profile weekly music show - perhaps Saturdays at 11:00am (when The Chart Show used to be on :wub: ). ITV would snap it up if they knew it would generate revenue (it's all about the money, Meja! :P ) so who knows what type of impact a show like this could have.

 

Obviously we know the X Factor has a massive influence on how people buy music on iTunes. We know that 10 seconds on Hollyoaks, or 30 seconds in a commercial will generate sales just not to the same extent. :D

 

It will be interesting to see how this pans out for a few months. Eventually there will be stability similar to 2010 where most songs will end up debuting at #1 before their inevitable plummet/rise/plummet. :kink:

Didn't Simon Cowell say he had plans for a new weekly music show or something along those lines? As much as people tend to hate him, he's a brilliant businessman and knows exactly what to do. So imagine if there was a high profile weekly music show - perhaps Saturdays at 11:00am (when The Chart Show used to be on :wub: ). ITV would snap it up if they knew it would generate revenue (it's all about the money, Meja! :P ) so who knows what type of impact a show like this could have.

 

Obviously we know the X Factor has a massive influence on how people buy music on iTunes. We know that 10 seconds on Hollyoaks, or 30 seconds in a commercial will generate sales just not to the same extent. :D

 

It will be interesting to see how this pans out for a few months. Eventually there will be stability similar to 2010 where most songs will end up debuting at #1 before their inevitable plummet/rise/plummet. :kink:

 

Yeah, I'd like another music TV show to be honest. I don't mind if Simon Cowell does it. Infact, I think he gets too much hate to be honest, but I would be a bit worried that it'd be Olly Murs, Cheryl Cole and JLS in every episode. :( But if the people that appear on the show are representative of the charts, then that would be great! :D

Avril Lavigne's new song was released this week and it only just had its radio premier (Sony Music)

Avril Lavigne's new song was released this week and it only just had its radio premier (Sony Music)

I'm very happy about all this. I would rather see a song climb to new number 1 as its popularity grows rather than see songs which hit their peak weeks in advance, get a high peak and then drop off the charts in 5 weeks. I much prefer seeing 20-25 number 1's with 4/5 weeks there than 30-40 a year, most of which are forgotten 6 months later. Plus, no more tribute versions of songs charting instead of the proper thing.

I'm very happy about all this. I would rather see a song climb to new number 1 as its popularity grows rather than see songs which hit their peak weeks in advance, get a high peak and then drop off the charts in 5 weeks. I much prefer seeing 20-25 number 1's with 4/5 weeks there than 30-40 a year, most of which are forgotten 6 months later. Plus, no more tribute versions of songs charting instead of the proper thing.

 

To be fair, I remember every #1 from the past few years (apart from Islands in a Stream, which I forgot got to #1 at one point, although I remember it now. :lol:).

To be fair, I remember every #1 from the past few years (apart from Islands in a Stream, which I forgot got to #1 at one point, although I remember it now. :lol:).

Well, people on this forum are hardly representive of the general public... when you start to follow the charts/music obsessively you're bound to remember most songs from that point onwards.

 

I can sing/hum at least the chorus (or one specific part, such as part of a verse or something) of every #1 of the 90s/00s/10s, and a large majority from the 70s/80s, but I know that 99.9999% of the British public can't.

 

That's partly why I think it's funny when we have topics about which songs will be remembered in x years from now on here, as we can hardly judge as people who will probably remember most of the songs anyway, you know? :lol:

Edited January 20, 201114 yr by superbossanova

Don't forget that happened to Bad Romance aswell.

 

Just saying. In 2009 everybody whined about how Meet Me Halfway was performed on X Factor and got to #1, but people conveniently didn't whine about Bad Romance doing the same. :lol: Oh, it would've gotten to #1 anyway. Of course! :lol:

 

But yeah, if all songs were released straight away we wouldn't be getting these massive first week sales of 150,000, so it'd be much easier to get #1 due to some TV promo.

 

Infact, the only songs I can think of since I've been following the sales figures that have cilmbed to sales of over 100,000 in a week are Meet Me Halfway, Just the Way You Are and What's My Name? All 3 did so after being performed on the X Factor. There's probably a couple of others too that I've forgotten. This could mean a decrease in songs selling over 100,000 in a week, although I think there'll be more sales overall each week, which is the more important thing.

 

Oh, and one of the worst from last year was Happiness by Alexis Jordan which I heard for the first time on the radio in June (and it might've been played before that, because I don't listen to all radio stations 24/7, so I might've missed its premiere), and it got released in November or something? And people were like "Wow, it's a shock she got to #3. I haven't heard the song yet", and I literally wanted to facepalm! Do those people live under a rock or something?!?! :lol:

 

 

but were bad romance and meet me halfway not on the rise in the charts and xfactor gave them that boost to hit no1?

 

the black eyed peas song annoyed me because it rose initially, fell as people stopped buying it then rose again to the top 5 as the video came out then fell to like no10/11 and only reversed when they played the xfactor!!

 

on another note whats the craic with this nw rule then, will it just start in 2 weeks?does anyone have a list of future song and universal releases which will be released under the rule in february?

the black eyed peas song annoyed me because it rose initially, fell as people stopped buying it then rose again to the top 5 as the video came out then fell to like no10/11 and only reversed when they played the xfactor!!

 

That's not quite true - it entered at #11 on about 4? days of sales, climbed to #7 still with no video, started to lose popularity due to lack of promo and dropped back down to #11, then the video came out and it climbed to #6, then X Factor happened and it got #1. It would have been top 3 that week anyway without XF I reckon.