Posted March 20, 201114 yr Does anyone know what's happening to www.everyhit.co.uk? It doesn't appear to habe been updated at all since the end of last year. I hope the guy(s) who provide the website haven't had to stop, because it's a really great resource.
March 20, 201114 yr Does anyone know what's happening to www.everyhit.co.uk? It doesn't appear to habe been updated at all since the end of last year. I hope the guy(s) who provide the website haven't had to stop, because it's a really great resource. Polyhex does what they do only better...
March 20, 201114 yr Polyhex does what they do only better... True, but EveryHit has some very nice features such as the Chart Records section and the Retro Charts (which haven't been updated for a few years, but still) :P All have their different uses, IMO. Chartstats has a few errors and a really clumsy search function (not to mention bad crediting) so I only really use it for looking at weekly charts, and then use Polyhex for looking at singles peaks/runs. Edited March 20, 201114 yr by superbossanova
March 20, 201114 yr Author Thanks for the info about the polyhex and chartstats - I hadn't heard of them. Anyone know of any others?
March 20, 201114 yr True, but EveryHit has some very nice features such as the Chart Records section and the Retro Charts (which haven't been updated for a few years, but still) :P All have their different uses, IMO. Chartstats has a few errors and a really clumsy search function (not to mention bad crediting) so I only really use it for looking at weekly charts, and then use Polyhex for looking at singles peaks/runs. That's the only thing that annoys me about Chartstats sometimes, for example with Taio/Kylie/Travie - Higher they credited it as 'Taio Cruz / McCoy / Minogue' for two weeks, then just 'Taio Cruz' for two weeks, then they switched back to 'Taio Cruz / McCoy / Minogue'. I find the search function works alright though.
March 20, 201114 yr That's the only thing that annoys me about Chartstats sometimes, for example with Taio/Kylie/Travie - Higher they credited it as 'Taio Cruz / McCoy / Minogue' for two weeks, then just 'Taio Cruz' for two weeks, then they switched back to 'Taio Cruz / McCoy / Minogue'. I find the search function works alright though. I believe he gets the recent charts from the OCC website, so if the crediting keeps changing it's probably because of them, not him specifically. My biggest gripe with Chartstats is that some albums have like three separate pages, and loads of them have two. They're the same albums, so should be on one page, but because he's collected his chart data from several different sources its led to this, as not everyone writes some album titles (I'm talking more specifically Greatest Hits, which is where most of the things like this are) in the same way. See the UB40 page for example to see what I'm talking about. Also, his policy with re-releases is so inconsistent it's actually annoying. They should all be separated, and before about 2006 most of them are, which is fine. But after that most of them aren't. I actually sent him an e-mail a while ago telling him about loads of 2007/2008 songs that were re-releases so should have two separate chart runs but I got no reply, and he didn't correct any of them :( As for the search function, I find it works most of the time, but occasionally I search for something and get nothing from the in-site search, or the google site search it links to at the bottom. Maybe I just search for more obscure stuff than you, though :lol: That said, I do think Chartstats is a great site, and it's also ironically (considering that's not really its purpose) probably one of the best sites for old CD artwork :lol: Edited March 20, 201114 yr by superbossanova
March 20, 201114 yr Thanks for the info about the polyhex and chartstats - I hadn't heard of them. Anyone know of any others? There's also zobbel.de - another essential chart site :D
March 20, 201114 yr I believe he gets the recent charts from the OCC website, so if the crediting keeps changing it's probably because of them, not him specifically. My biggest gripe with Chartstats is that some albums have like three separate pages, and loads of them have two. They're the same albums, so should be on one page, but because he's collected his chart data from several different sources its led to this, as not everyone writes some album titles (I'm talking more specifically Greatest Hits, which is where most of the things like this are) in the same way. See the UB40 page for example to see what I'm talking about. Also, his policy with re-releases is so inconsistent it's actually annoying. They should all be separated, and before about 2006 most of them are, which is fine. But after that most of them aren't. I actually sent him an e-mail a while ago telling him about loads of 2007/2008 songs that were re-releases so should have two separate chart runs but I got no reply, and he didn't correct any of them :( As for the search function, I find it works most of the time, but occasionally I search for something and get nothing from the in-site search, or the google site search it links to at the bottom. Maybe I just search for more obscure stuff than you, though :lol: That said, I do think Chartstats is a great site, and it's also ironically (considering that's not really its purpose) probably one of the best sites for old CD artwork :lol: The OCC have always credited Higher as 'TAIO CRUZ/MCCOY/MINOGUE' though as far as I'm aware... maybe they did just lapse back to 'TAIO CRUZ' for 2 weeks though. The albums thing is actually a bit annoying now you mention it, like Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler's greatest hits album. The Good Girl Gone Bad / GGGB Reloaded issue is also annoying, they had the same chart run so should be on the same page but they keep switching places so it's a bit annoying to find a full chart run for it. I personally think re-releases shouldn't be separated but that's just a matter of opinion :P I do occasionally get no results for searches, for example 'u2' turns up no results, but more often than not the search works just fine. Although sometimes the result you're actually looking for is way down in the list of results (even if you type in the exact crediting) which is a bit annoying, but you can just Ctrl+F that. About the artwork, there's an error in the artwork for Glee Cast's version of Bohemian Rhapsody - I won't spoil it, go look it up yourself. :lol: But yeah, it does have some flaws but overall I'd say chartstats.com is still the best resource for chart runs and chart information IMO.
March 20, 201114 yr The OCC have always credited Higher as 'TAIO CRUZ/MCCOY/MINOGUE' though as far as I'm aware... maybe they did just lapse back to 'TAIO CRUZ' for 2 weeks though. It went: 'TAIO CRUZ/MCCOY/MINOGUE' 60-37 'TAIO CRUZ 17-8 TAIO CRUZ/MCCOY/MINOGUE' 8-10... (see the weeks 22/1/11 - 19/3/11) It was so annoying when they did this, because it happened half way through it's chart run! They sort of did it with Deadmau5 - Ghosts n Stuff: when it was climbing up the chart it was titled as 'Ghost N Stuff', but when it was falling it was titled 'Ghosts 'n' Stuff'
March 20, 201114 yr I've often sent corrections to everyhit.com. At one time the site would be updated within days of me sending an e-mail. However, I sent a list of artists who should be deleted from the one-hit wonders list several weeks ago and there's still no update :(
March 20, 201114 yr The OCC have always credited Higher as 'TAIO CRUZ/MCCOY/MINOGUE' though as far as I'm aware... maybe they did just lapse back to 'TAIO CRUZ' for 2 weeks though. The albums thing is actually a bit annoying now you mention it, like Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler's greatest hits album. The Good Girl Gone Bad / GGGB Reloaded issue is also annoying, they had the same chart run so should be on the same page but they keep switching places so it's a bit annoying to find a full chart run for it. I personally think re-releases shouldn't be separated but that's just a matter of opinion :P I do occasionally get no results for searches, for example 'u2' turns up no results, but more often than not the search works just fine. Although sometimes the result you're actually looking for is way down in the list of results (even if you type in the exact crediting) which is a bit annoying, but you can just Ctrl+F that. About the artwork, there's an error in the artwork for Glee Cast's version of Bohemian Rhapsody - I won't spoil it, go look it up yourself. :lol: But yeah, it does have some flaws but overall I'd say chartstats.com is still the best resource for chart runs and chart information IMO. I think the problem with the crediting on Chartstats that you're talking about mostly occurs because of these single versions that have featured acts added. Watch out for the same happening with Cee Lo Green - currently it's credited to him solo but I'm sure OCC will add Wiz Khalifa to it soon, and then two pages for it will pop up on Chartstats :kink: That said, he didn't do that with JLS for some reason... have you tried e-mailing him about this? I've e-mailed him before and actually got a reply, so I don't know why he ignored my comment about the re-releases, except maybe he simply doesn't want to separate them :lol: But usually he seems quite gracious about accepting corrections and things. Fair enough about thinking re-releases shouldn't be separated, but to separate all of them pre-2006 and then none of them after is just silly. Consistency would be nice. The only logic I can see in why he doesn't separate them now is because it's harder to tell what's a re-release and what isn't just a random re-entry these days, plus their number has significantly dwindled in the last few years anyway (compared to the 90s when there were loads of hugely successful re-releases). Ha, I've actually seen a few artwork errors on there before. But considering he has over 35,600 covers on there according to the stats page, it's fairly few. Edited March 20, 201114 yr by superbossanova
March 20, 201114 yr I have been wondering this for a while- the 'retro charts' seem to be still in Autumn 2007 last time I checked :lol:
March 20, 201114 yr Here is another site that I use http://www.onlineweb.com/theones/ http://www.onlineweb.com/theones/2010.htm
March 20, 201114 yr I think the problem with the crediting on Chartstats that you're talking about mostly occurs because of these single versions that have featured acts added. Watch out for the same happening with Cee Lo Green - currently it's credited to him solo but I'm sure OCC will add Wiz Khalifa to it soon, and then two pages for it will pop up on Chartstats :kink: That said, he didn't do that with JLS for some reason... have you tried e-mailing him about this? I've e-mailed him before and actually got a reply, so I don't know why he ignored my comment about the re-releases, except maybe he simply doesn't want to separate them :lol: But usually he seems quite gracious about accepting corrections and things. Fair enough about thinking re-releases shouldn't be separated, but to separate all of them pre-2006 and then none of them after is just silly. Consistency would be nice. The only logic I can see in why he doesn't separate them now is because it's harder to tell what's a re-release and what isn't just a random re-entry these days, plus their number has significantly dwindled in the last few years anyway (compared to the 90s when there were loads of hugely successful re-releases). Ha, I've actually seen a few artwork errors on there before. But considering he has over 35,600 covers on there according to the stats page, it's fairly few. I think it's just because the OCC no longer treats re-releases as different songs since downloads kicked in. There's no distinction on download sites between the original version and the re-release especially if they're exactly the same song (e.g. Don't Trust Me) so you wouldn't know which 'version' to combine them to. Back when downloads weren't available it would have been easy enough to separate the sales but not now. It's also like how they treat all versions of the same song as one song, even with things like Three Lions which they clearly now treat as a single song (in the recent million-sellers list they published Three Lions showed up in the top 30 because the '98 sales were added to the '96 sales) I sent him an email about the OCC errors in the last / second last week of 2010 (depending on what way you look at it) where 'Heroes' was #18 when it should have been #22 and etc. He updated it all within a day. Edited March 20, 201114 yr by Bray
March 20, 201114 yr I have been wondering this for a while- the 'retro charts' seem to be still in Autumn 2007 last time I checked :lol: He/they stopped updating the chart records page for quite a good few months before he/they stopped updating the chart database, too. For example, it still says the biggest faller from #1 album is George Harrison, when we all know that was broken by Christina Aguilera in June last year...
October 12, 201113 yr It looks like this site is not going to be updated any more - the list of number 1 singles and albums was last updated in January though as said above, other sections of the website haven't been updated for far longer. I wonder why the website is no longer being maintained?
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