Posted March 30, 201114 yr There's been some debate over the impact of airplay in the UK charts, so I decided to a sort of preview if airplay ever made part of the UK charts. Obviously my system is different, based on a points system from the top50 Airplay chart and the top50 singles chart and not on sales + audience impression. Ties were broken by giving preference to which song had the higher sales points. These are all the songs that have gathered at least 1 point to make the merged chart. Songs in green gained at least 10 places from the official chart or are new, songs in red lost at least 10. The UK Chart would look like this: 01 Adele - Someone Like You (full 100 points, airplay and sales leader, would've beaten Nicole last week) 02 Nicole Scherzinger - Dont Hold Your Breath 03 Jessie J - Price Tag 04 Rihanna - S&M 05 Lady Gaga - Born This Way 06 The Wanted - Gold Forever 07 Black Eyed Peas - Just Cant Get Enough 08 Adele - Rolling In The Deep 09 Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow 10 Bruno Mars - Grenade 11 Chris Brown - Yeah 3x 12 Pink - Perfect 13 Cee-Lo - Bright Lights Bigger City 14 Dr Dre - I Need A Doctor 15 Alexis Jordan - Good Girl 16 Chipmunk - Champion 17 NOAH & The Whale - Life Goes On 18 Katy Perry - E.T 19 JLS - Eyes Wide Shut 20 Cee-Lo - FU 21 Mann - Buzzin 22 Tinie Tempah - Wonderman 23 Rihanna - Only Girl 24 Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude 25 Peter Kay - I Know Him So Well 26 David Guetta - Who's That Chick 27 Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are 28 The Pierces - You'll Be Mine 29 Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta - Sweat 30 Diddy-Dirty Money - Coming Home 31 Eliza Doolittle - Mr Medicine 32 Tiesto - C'mon 33 Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor 34 Olly Murs - Heart On My Sleeve 35 Kanye West - All Of The Lights 36 Taio Cruz - Higher 37 LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem 38 Katy Perry - Firework 39 Glee - Heads Will Roll / Thriller 40 Wonderland - Not A Love Song 41 Katy B - Broken Records 42 Parade - Louder 43 Foo Fighters - Rope 44 Rihanna - What's My Name 45 Birdy - Skinny Love 46 Asa - Be My Man 47 Jeremih - Down On Me 48 Take That - Kidz 49 Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me 50 Martin Solveig - Hello 51 Adele - Make You Feel My Love 52 Enrique Iglesias - Tonight 53 Katy Perry - California Girls 54 Pink - Raise Your Glass 55 Dionne Bromfield - Yeah Right 56 Nicki Minaj - Moment 4 Life 57 Take That - The Flood 58 Olly Murs - Thinking Of Me 59 Clare Maguire - The Last Dance 60 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 61 The Strokers - Undercover Of Darkness 62 Cage The Elephant - Shake Me Down 63 Lady Antebellum - Need You Now 64 Roxette - She's Got Nothing On 65 Chris Brown - Next 2 You 66 The Vaccines - If You Wanna 67 Avril Lavigne - What The Hell 68 Taylor Swift - The Story Of Us (1 point) So what do you think? Some people like me says the Hot 100 should be sales only, others say its the perfect combination. Would you like this method in the UK?
March 30, 201114 yr It would be interesting to see a chart of sales-to-airplay ratio sort of thing? Like a song that sells a lot despite very little airplay is arguably "bigger" than those songs which get lots and lots of airplay, yet don't sell anything.
March 30, 201114 yr Author ^^ Agreed. R1 and R2 have way too much influence on the airplay chart, as well as those commercial stations that keep flogging the same songs months after they're released
March 30, 201114 yr I did this weekly about a year ago as the Bullboard chart, but no-one was really interested :(
March 30, 201114 yr Author Oops sorry didnt know :lol: This was a one off though, not planning to do this every week
March 30, 201114 yr IMO, the hot 100 should be sales only, as it actually shows what the public like, rather than who is getting the most airplay. A song can played to death and chart high, and sell less then a song getting poor airplay and high sales, that would chart lower. Adele being number 1 instead of Nicole would not have been fair, she had the most popular song that week. Thank you for compiling this, it is interesting reading, even though I don't like the idea :). Edited March 30, 201114 yr by starryeyed
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