Remember been excited watching the top ten? waiting for a premier of a new video? I know we have that now on loads of other channels.. but it does'nt seem the same..what do you think?

I don't 'miss' the show, we have X Factor, the BRITS and BGT for people to perform live on - and they are much more entertaining (I am an X Factor fan and watch it religiously lol)

 

People still excitedly wait for new video premiers, like the new GaGa video for Judas which could be released any day now - it better be soon though

I miss what it was like back in the 80's - at that time it had an X-Factor-like effect on the featured songs!

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we have X Factor, the BRITS and BGT for people to perform live on

 

Sheesh, it helps if you're a huge act usually affiliated to Syco who doesn't need the exposure then?

 

The great thing about TOTP was anything in the top 40 could be on it, even if it was just ten seconds on the "breakers" section.

 

As for missing TOTP? I miss TOTP of the 1980s, I don't miss the crap show that it became long before satellite channels were ubiquitous. I liked the tie to Radio 1 with the same presenters, I liked the awkward folk in the audience trying to be cool and actually thinking they were very cool. Somebody ruined it in the mid 90s when they started to have pointless 'celebrity' hosts.

 

Yeah i definitely miss it. Used to look forward to it every week. Didn't Simon Cowell mention plans for a new chart music show?

Yeah i definitely miss it. Used to look forward to it every week. Didn't Simon Cowell mention plans for a new chart music show?

Yes he did. He said it last December. But no news in the past few mouths.

 

Just think of all the customs Lady Gaga could parade around with every TOTP performance.

To be totally honest, I miss The Chart Show and CD:UK much more than TOTP. ** shrugs **

To be totally honest, I miss The Chart Show and CD:UK much more than TOTP. ** shrugs **

 

 

I think all three were good and it would be great for new acts that do not get booked onto the major chat shows to get exposure on them if they were ever revived.

I think all three were good and it would be great for new acts that do not get booked onto the major chat shows to get exposure on them if they were ever revived.

 

The Chart Show was easily the best for me. It catered for all musical tastes, didn't require a TV presenter so there was more focus on the music. I would see a video on The Chart Show I liked when it was "exclusive" or "new release" and I ended up buying the single sometime that same week.

 

TOTP was absolutely stale in the mid-late 90s, the emphasis on the "high profile" celebrity presenters each week clearly being more important than the performances. Eg; 'Set You Free' by N-Trance's performance was ridiculously cut short - probably not even 2 minutes (I don't remember this from the time, but saw it on YouTube - lest to say I was AGOG). By 1997 it was a tired format where they started each show with the previous weeks #1 - the irony of them playing Gary Barlow 'Love Won't Wait' when it dropped 01-06 surely spoke volumes as to why TOTP was getting crap. Oh, and by 1999/2000 TOTP was being shown on Friday nights when the UK chart was almost a week old (remember, charts were much faster those years). On Saturday morning you could watch a bang up to date UK chart thanks to CD:UK - who also had artists perform prior to release. Eg; ATB '9PM' performing on CD:UK and the atmosphere in the studio was electric - it then sold over 200k that week.

 

So yes, The Chart Show and CD:UK were better than TOTP im(humble :P )o.

Yes TOTP in the 80s was great and magical- it was bound to be really it was the only real exposure for music back then- ITV had the "roxy" which was just a poor man's TOTP but back in the 80s TOTP was all we talked about the day after at school!

Having said that I loved CD:UK when Kat Deeley & Ant & Dec did it almost as much (I preferred it to TOTP during 98-01)

They still show old episodes of The Chart Show on Vault TV it actually was really good and shows that British music in the nineties was really vibrant and musically diverse-Misteeq,Paul Young,Curiosity Killed the Cat, Swing Out Sister, Tamsin Archer and Desiree.

TOTP may have been getting low ratings but I think they should have just changed the format with no R1 presenters as hosts rather people who knew alot about music.I think the Producer Chris Cowie just started running out of ideas to keep it fresh.

CD-UK was really good and the presenters not annoying but funny, I remember watching one where Mariah Carey was back after her breakdown wearing a bridesmaid dress for some skit.She was still as mad as a loon.

The end of TOTP was inevitable because it was out of touch. Firstly due to the wide range of music programmes on TV to rival it but also channels like the box who were showing songs/ videos weeks in advance so by the time the band got to appear on TOTP the song was old hat (and it would hurtle down the charts after one week so TOTP never had them on again) and that it still aired on a thurday/ Friday throughout the 90s and well into the 00's (opposite Coronation Street teh biggest show on the TV) so the chart was old in the newer faster paced world of music. They tried to rectify it by switching the programme to a Sunday to make the new chart, which had been revealed seem fresh, but the move to BBC2 was the final straw.

I remember watching one where Mariah Carey was back after her breakdown wearing a bridesmaid dress for some skit.She was still as mad as a loon.

 

I think you're getting CD:UK confused with SM:TV which was the Saturday morning kids TV show (it was absolute genius as well - it managed to cater to people of all ages :lol: ). The Mariah Carey sketch was called Chums. Let us relive that moment of TV gold once again... :D

 

I think you're getting CD:UK confused with SM:TV which was the Saturday morning kids TV show (it was absolute genius as well - it managed to cater to people of all ages :lol: ). The Mariah Carey sketch was called Chums. Let us relive that moment of TV gold once again... :D

 

 

 

You're right thanks they all merge into one but that skit was hilarious.

If TOTP was back, it just wouldn't fit in the present climate, when you have other music channels.

 

To be honest I prefered The Chart Show and CD:UK, saying that CD:UK ended up with the same pop band week after week McFly, Busted, Westlife, it just went all Pop, without touching any other music genre.

 

The best feature of CD:UK was the top 10, I remember it was a regular feature on CC as a regular thread topic every Saturday morning created by yours truly... me :D

TOTP may have been getting low ratings but I think they should have just changed the format with no R1 presenters as hosts rather people who knew alot about music.I think the Producer Chris Cowie just started running out of ideas to keep it fresh.

Back in the days when R1 presenters hosted TOTP they were people who knew and cared about music.

Back in the days when R1 presenters hosted TOTP they were people who knew and cared about music.

 

I am talking about Fern and Reggie years

I'm sorry but Top of the Pops was MILES better than CD:UK. I can't believe people would even think the latter was better, or why they're even being compared. I used to watch both, but I didn't watch TOTP to see the chart quite frankly, although I did enjoy the top 20 countdown at the end. They often had totally different performances so I don't see why the need to compare them to each other came from. TOTP was definitely more diverse though, even in the late 90s/early 00s. I used to cringe at the amount of teenage girl screaming that went on during CD:UK whenever Westlife or some other boyband were mentioned. Eugh. I only watched CD:UK for the Saturday Chart, and even that turned otu to be useless to me once I discovered midweeks.

 

By the way, there were no celebrity hosts on TOTP in the late 90s - by then the presenters were a rotating team of Jamie Theakston, Gail Porter, Jayne Middlemiss and probably some others I've forgotten, usually one of them on their own each week. I preferred them to Ant, Dec and Cat although I already knew and liked Jamie from Live & Kicking.

 

But yeah, I miss Top of the Pops and to an extent Live & Kicking (:lol:). I don't miss CD:UK at all. The Chart Show was before my time but I've seen a few episodes on YouTube and it seems pretty good, too, but still it's hard to say I miss it when I never watched it when it was on.

 

And there is definitely a place for TOTP in today's music scene. Where else can you see live performance nowadays? Ok, The X Factor, yeah. Maybe a few on some other random chat shows. The Live Lounge is also a big one, but that only has one act a week or something. But it's hugely successful so obviously there's still a demand for people to see/hear live performances, rather than just watching videos. It's a MUCH better way to connect with an artist than simply watching them parade around in the videos. Surely Adele at the BRITS is even further proof of that. Live performances ARE still relevant today, even in pop music, so TOTP could still be relevant today as well. It's all about getting the right presenters, aiming it at the right audience, etc.

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