You forgot the worst offender for use of formula, Scouting For Girls. Alexis Jordan & The Wanted are also other ones. I hate it when people come out with the same song all the time, when they can easily be a bit different. Great examples of difference in the charts now are Black Eyed Peas (JCGE doesn't sound a thing like The Time, the end only a little bit) and Rihanna (a dance/europop song, then an rnb song, then a pop song)

 

Me too. That's probably the worst thing in the charts these days tbh. Those artists who release the same song repeatedly and keep getting top 10 hits every few months. Really sad tbh, and it sets a bad example to those other artists who want to be massive. They'll be thinking "Oh, it's worked for X, Y and Z, so I'll get my best song, change it a bit, put different lyrics, release it, and everybody will buy it! Yay!"

 

I'd prefer to have rock and country songs high up the charts instead of those. At least they're different.

I refer to it as 'top 100 hits' but it's more just 'top [however much was official at the time] hits' :P As that's much easier to figure out.

 

I'm taking the point that it went from top 75 to top 100 as when chartstats.com decided to switch to that in mid-2007. I have no idea if this was before or after when the top 100 became the official chart (again) but it's the only reference point I have so it will have to do for me.

zobbel.de has a database of peaks of all top 200 entries from 1995 onwards, so it's not that hard to find such info :P That's how I knew about M&S anyway.

 

As for when the OCC started publishing the top 100 on their site, that was indeed the exact date Chartstats switched over from top 75 to 100. Before that they rather generously published only the top 40 for some baffling reason, and even going back further than that I believe they either didn't publish the chart on their site at all or only used something ridiculously small like the top 10 or something (can't remember which). I went to Dotmusic/Launch to get the top 75s back then.

 

And the NME did publish the top 100 on their site from 2001 (possibly earlier) to 2003, but I guess it's up for debate whether you would even consider this an official extension of the chart. It was surely endorsed by the OCC (as they would have to have given out the information, obviously), but it was the only place that carried it, and the chart books still used the top 75 only (like they do now). So essentially it wasn't that much different to the current version of the top 100. Unfortunately Chartstats doesn't have the 76-100 sections from when the NME website published them though :(

zobbel.de has a database of peaks of all top 200 entries from 1995 onwards, so it's not that hard to find such info :P That's how I knew about M&S anyway.

 

As for when the OCC started publishing the top 100 on their site, that was indeed the exact date Chartstats switched over from top 75 to 100. Before that they rather generously published only the top 40 for some baffling reason, and even going back further than that I believe they either didn't publish the chart on their site at all or only used something ridiculously small like the top 10 or something (can't remember which). I went to Dotmusic/Launch to get the top 75s back then.

 

And the NME did publish the top 100 on their site from 2001 (possibly earlier) to 2003, but I guess it's up for debate whether you would even consider this an official extension of the chart. It was surely endorsed by the OCC (as they would have to have given out the information, obviously), but it was the only place that carried it, and the chart books still used the top 75 only (like they do now). So essentially it wasn't that much different to the current version of the top 100. Unfortunately Chartstats doesn't have the 76-100 sections from when the NME website published them though :(

 

Thanks for that, I've been worrying for a while they'll suddenly upgrade more charts to top 100s and I'd have to make drastic alterations to my chart spreadsheet :lol:

 

I do know about zobbel.de also. The only problem with that site is you need to know the year to find a song.

 

As for the NME thing, I wouldn't count that as a legit extension to the chart personally.