Pretty much late 2010 when I began looking at the charts and discovered first the Radio 1 Chart Update, then DigitalSpy and Buzzjack.

Welcome along :)

I googled them in late 2009 and found Haven. Then I found here.

Late 2007. Took a keen interest in the charts and was looking for a release schedule and stumbled across ManicKangaroo's threads on ChC. Then I was randomly trawling through the charts section and stumbled upon the Midweeks thread! They then made the charts forum members only to view so I was without them for a few weeks...

 

Then I decided to join ChC so I could see them on the 1st Jan 2008 I believe and here I am now! :P

 

I used to trawl through Ceefax and Teletext daily though so I may have seen some bits in there?

2008 I think as I was keeping an eye on Rihanna's Disturbia at the time! I found midweeks via Digital Spy's Sound Blog. I also, thankfully found this site via a member on Digital Spy's forum :D

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2005, through CoolClarity (although I was more of a lurker than an active participant)

For me, it would probably have been early 2004, soon after I started following the charts again. Probably via Dotmusic.

Either late 2008 or early 2009, a few weeks before I joined. I somehow stumbled across some random countdown on this site and decided to look around.

 

I forgot what the mids thread was called and couldn't find it for ages though :lol:

The week 'Here It Comes Again' by Melanie C was released in early 2003 back on Dotmusic. Discovered the release schedule at the same time.

I used to work in an independent record store between 1996 and 1998 and we used to get the midweeks faxed through from a couple of the record company reps. Great days.

I discovered midweek chart information way back in 1997 on Channel 4 teletext. They had an excellent feature called Launchpad which reviewed new singles/albums each week - although it was the polar opposite of Buzzjack (ie; Cheryl Cole would probably get 2/10 whilst Crystal Castles would be getting 8/10).

 

My first internet experience came in 1999 when Xaverian College first had internet access installed on all the computers in the IT classroom. I didn't get addicted to the internet until 2002 when I signed up with AOL (aka AOHell :heehee: ) and discovered a whole new world of music websites. I was in awe at the time; heaven had finally become digital. :D

I suppose you could count the Chart Show charts (and then CD UK) which gave a good idea, but were they based on the actual midweeks?

 

To be honest, I'm almost sure The Chart Show was made up and not based on midweeks whatsoever but more based on sales predictions. They had many weeks between 1989-1998 where the official no. 1 was nowhere near #1 on The Chart Show. It was still the best resource for discovering new music though.

 

Then there was the very much dumbed down alternative CD:UK which was basically Smash Hits magazine turned into a live TV music show (hence why all the plastic pop dominated the charts in late 98/1999/2000) because those acts were always on CD:UK. I'm sure Westlife were living in the CD:UK studios at one point, followed by Blazin' Squad in 2002, followed by Busted in 2002/2003 as they seemed to appear every bloody week. :angry: -_- However, CD:UK's Saturday chart was based on midweeks sales information so had a far more reliable chart, and bizarrely made Top Of The Pops seem so insignificant as the UK chart was almost a week old by the time TOTP aired on Friday night.

I found them and this site when i started following Leonas career in 2007 But i just and still do lurk most of time even though i keep saying ill post more

when bbc radio 1 first started telling them on wednesday

From something gooddelta said about looking at the mid weeks on teletext in 2001, I realised that the first proper midweeks I knew about were in 2004 when I dicscovered Coolclarity! I suppose you could count the Chart Show charts (and then CD UK) which gave a good idea, but were they based on the actual midweeks?

Midweeks have always been around in some form. Even NME were doing a separate midweek chart in 1965, & from 1966 it was used by Radio Luxembourg. Although the regular NME chart broke off on Fridays anyway. The Chart show originally ran the Network Chart (MRIB), then switched to a Tuesday chart but this covered the previous Wednesday to the following Tuesday. Then CDUK, carried a Saturday chart although this went up to Friday night only. Today Chart Show TV do the top 20 singles on Saturdays at 9am, but their's is a Wednesday chart & if there is no video for a certain track every other song is moved up one place. So, at times you have the number 25 as number 20!

Around 2004 when I first discovered chart forums, I think. Though as mentioned, CD:UK aired a run down.