As we have too much dominance of one genre in the UK singles charts, would a 50% sales and 50% expert say about 10 people in the music industry who vote 1 to their favourite and 200 to their least favourite decide who is #1?

 

Who do you think would benefit? Would this cause a bit more variance and long stayers?

 

I think a jury panel would favour Adele.

 

Your opinions?

 

 

No, that would be retarded and would ruin the chart. It's fine as it is. If the public happen to favour certain genres over others then the chart should reflect that.

Edited April 25, 201114 yr by Bray

As we have too much dominance of one genre in the UK singles charts, would a 50% sales and 50% expert say about 10 people in the music industry who vote 1 to their favourite and 200 to their least favourite decide who is #1?

 

Who do you think would benefit? Would this cause a bit more variance and long stayers?

 

I think a jury panel would favour Adele.

 

Your opinions?

 

No - we shouldn't let the charts be decided by 10 people, it's an even worse idea than bringing in airplay to the charts. ADELE will still be number one with SLY and 21 if this happened. If the public like one genre, so be it. It's the UK chart, not the UK critics chart

Tbh all in all it wouldn't be a good idea, it would be as $h!t as the US chart with it's airplay rules. Plus lots of popular acts wouldn't do anywhere as near as well, as critics don't review them well. The song that sells the most should be number 1 and nothing more. I can imagine how annoyed an artist would be if someone sold less than them in the US but beat them to no.1 because of airplay. Also, imagine selling loads then some hyped indie group beating you because of stanning critics?

Edited April 25, 201114 yr by Liаm

I would make the album chart 100% public as I feel that has more prestige than the singles charts. 50/50 works in other fields. so why not the singles charts? Perhaps two #1s could be played at the end of the charts if both have different favourites?

It would only work if I was one of the ten and could appoint the other nine :D

 

Seriously though, no. The singles chart should remain a sales-only chart.

It would be fair on certain acts but not on others. I mean some acts get panned by critics but do well chartwise, and some crtically acclaimed flop. But tbh all in all it wouldn't be a good idea, it was be as $h!t as the US chart with it's airplay rules. The song that sells the most should be number 1 and nothing more. I can imagine how annoyed an artist would be if someone sold less than them in the US but beat them to no.1 because of airplay!

 

This happened to Miley Cyrus I believe - so in that case having airplay is good :D

This is like the worst idea I've ever ever EVER come up to read on an online forum :o

 

Music charts are about what people like, not about what a bunch of snobbish "experts" decide is good or bad.

I would make the album chart 100% public as I feel that has more prestige than the singles charts. 50/50 works in other fields. so why not the singles charts? Perhaps two #1s could be played at the end of the charts if both have different favourites?

 

Because you can't give equal weightage to the opinions of TEN people to the opinions of 62 million people. That is just completely stupid, far more so than including airplay in the chart.

 

This happened to Miley Cyrus I believe - so in that case having airplay is good :D

 

Even if airplay denied Justin Bieber of #1 in the USA I'd still be opposed to it.

Edited April 25, 201114 yr by Bray

seriously, it would at least make the charts more diverse- a rock song could finally get to number 1 :lol:

 

but no, it should reflect sales and that alone- plus its quite snobbish, everyone has different tastes

Edited April 25, 201114 yr by chart wizard

seriously, it would at least make the charts more diverse- a rock song could finally get to number 1 :lol:

 

but no, it should reflect sales and that alone

 

Rock songs only started doing badly around 2009. Surely it'll make a comeback without critics ruining the charts. Rock artists don't care about how well their singles do anymore, it's all about the albums

Edited April 25, 201114 yr by danielGaGa

This happened to Miley Cyrus I believe - so in that case having airplay is good :D

I was so annoyed when that happened, she stalled at 2 for weeks just because her airplay was lower, but surely if way more people were buying PITU, it was clearly the most popular song at the time! I love Miley (:blush:) so that was so annoying for me - it was the first time I really questioned the US chart system,

Maybe there should be a regular critics choice chart 0- it could get the general public interested in little promoted artists.

If you're comparing the UK charts to how the voting works at Eurovision, the reason why it was put in place at Eurovision was because of 'bloc voting' and there was evidence to suggest that countries were only giving points to their neighbours and those who are politically similar. The UK charts are nothing like that, the UK charts show which songs are the most popular in the UK at the time, and it's not about whether a song (or album for that matter) is 'critically acclaimed', it's about what appeals to the British public.

we've literally (historically speaking) only just got to the point where we can accurately track almost every single/ song that is legitimatly sold and this proposal would just return us to back to the pre 1983 charts where hype and people being "bought" would again be a major issue. :nono:

Maybe there should be a regular critics choice chart 0- it could get the general public interested in little promoted artists.

 

This is why we have the Sound of [insert year] Poll. We don't need a weekly critics chart, no-one will be interested

Edited April 25, 201114 yr by danielGaGa

This is why we have the Sound of [insert year] Poll. We don't need a weekly critics chart, no-one will be interested

 

I suppose so - it would be biased and unfair anyway.

I would be interested to see what would happen (although I'd imagine that rock songs would simply chart higher, and urban songs would chart lower, because rock music is "proper" music and everything :lol:). I imagine Someone Like You would be #1 for most of the year.

 

However, it would be something dreadful to see implemented. As others have said, it'd be even worse than including airplay.

 

I wouldn't say the charts are dominated by one genre either. More like 4 genres: pop, RnB, dance, hip hop (and maybe electronica aswell).

Not saying all critics are 'music snobs' but just saying whenever I rarely see an anticipated indie release with a bad review, yet quite a few quite big pop albums last year were slated. The critics chart would probably be filled with alternative genres, most acts in which would be unpopular (except Adele of course :P)

I do wish there was something that could promote unkown/new artists, music channels and radio only stick to a few - maybe these songs could get some sales, if only people knew they existed.

Edited April 25, 201114 yr by starryeyed