May 8, 201114 yr ISTM it makes sense to adapt the OA/OS policy to conform to the start of the chart week in the given country, though. If the UK release of Lady G-BTW had been delayed for just a day & a half, it would have been a #1, not stuck at 3...
May 8, 201114 yr Looks as though the Sats won't get there first #1 if they are going by the OA/OS strategy. :lol:
May 8, 201114 yr Dissapointed The Sats are doing the OA/OS thing I was sure Notorious had a chance of being Number one had it been heavily promoted and was on the music channels :( It will scrape the top 10 imo.
May 13, 201114 yr I find that OAOS makes chart predictions very problematic. 1. You don't know when the hell a song will actually be available 2. It's very hard to convert part-week sales into a final position assessment.
May 13, 201114 yr ISTM it makes sense to adapt the OA/OS policy to conform to the start of the chart week in the given country, though. If the UK release of Lady G-BTW had been delayed for just a day & a half, it would have been a #1, not stuck at 3... That won't happen. American acts want to have an advantage in the US, so they don't care about chart positions in any other country. They'll continue to drop songs at the same time they're being released in the US, and that goes for everywhere else worldwide. This is where British acts can actually take advantage of the strategy though, as they can hold back their releases a couple of days until the Sunday if they really wanted to, and I think some acts probably will do this. Although Take That didn't, but I don't think they give a $h!t about their singles chart position to be honest. But certainly I can imagine the likes of The Saturdays, JLS, Cheryl Cole, etc. doing this (if they do on air, on sale with any releases). Dissapointed The Sats are doing the OA/OS thing I was sure Notorious had a chance of being Number one had it been heavily promoted and was on the music channels :( It will scrape the top 10 imo. Why? Haven't some of The Saturdays highest-selling singles come from songs that were available from the start of the airplay curve (as album cherry-picks)? I don't know why some people are still so concerned with chart peaks. Are you telling me people would genuinely prefer The Saturdays new single did a Forever Is Over? Because that's what I think would happen if they held back. It just doesn't make any sense. Peak positions are so irrelevant nowadays, anyway - now that songs are available forever and ever you can have songs that missed the top 40 selling loads and loads! I think they could still debut at #1 though, knowing them and their desperation and loony fans. By the way, don't you just love how interesting and unpredictable the top of the chart is due to on air, on sale? :dance: I can't believe anyone would want to go back to the days when the #1 for that week was obvious by Monday night at the latest (and nine times out of ten, on Sunday night). How boring was THAT?! I find that OAOS makes chart predictions very problematic. 1. You don't know when the hell a song will actually be available Would it though? Everybody knew Lady Gaga and Take That would be available this week, so if they were doing any chart predictions they could have accommodated this. And in terms of entering the top 40 straight away due to on air, on sale, it'll probably only be big-ish acts anyway, so I don't think it'll affect that *too* much. Of course with smaller acts it's more difficult to know when their song is being released. By the way, on the iTunes homepage, they do actually have a new releases section for singles, and that does include every release - for example, Take That are on there now, and they released on air, on sale. See below: http://i56.tinypic.com/72r3hf.png Edited May 13, 201114 yr by superbossanova
May 13, 201114 yr By the way, on the iTunes homepage, they do actually have a new releases section for singles, and that does include every release - for example, Take That are on there now, and they released on air, on sale. See below: http://i56.tinypic.com/72r3hf.png Thanks for that. Must admit I rarely use iTunes now - Amazon is significantly cheaper, and since Livepopbars appeared, I rarely even use it for that. Edited May 14, 201114 yr by vidcapper
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