I stopped listening to the chart show every week in 2002, when Mark Goodier left. Although it wasn't really a case of stopping as soon as he left in some kind of outrage/disgust, it was more that I just didn't worry too much about missing it after that. Plus 2002 had been such an awful year for chart music anyway so my interest was probably hampened a bit by that (even though 2003 turned out to be one of my absolute favourite years, although of course I didn't realise that at the time) and I had already stopped writing down the charts by the end of 2001. I did briefly jump over to the Smash Hits Chart when I heard Mark Goodier was presenting it but that didn't last long.

 

And I've only listened to the chart show twice this year (and both times not the full show, only a bit of it), but I still check the charts online every Sunday night without fail. Even if I don't know/haven't heard 4/5 of the top 5 like the situation is currently :lol: I'm very neutral these days and really don't care much who gets #1 or top 10 or whatever, plus it's not that often a song I really love gets that high in the charts anyway...

Even though I wasn't folowing the charts around 2003, I find that many of the songs released that year were and still are absolutely fantastic, such a wide variety of genres and probably my favourite year for music ever

I think one way to stop it is have the chart around 85% singles sales and 15% jury. This way it could penalise these acts and even penalise people who have to feature a rapper just to get a hit e.g. Olly Murs.

 

As well as the country in recession, I think the music charts and industry is in one.

 

You keep saying this, its a silly idea...the charts should reflect what the UK are buying, it wouldn't be fair on the artists who sell enough to get to number 1, its snobbish and ridiculous and would ruin the charts

 

seriously, I would like some more varied songs in the charts doing well, but you only have to look at Ed Sheeran and Adele to see that different styles of music *can* still do well

 

 

I think your jury thing is a silly idea though. How do you determine if the rapper is in the song "just to get a hit"? And you'd assume the jury was full of people who had the same opinion of music as you. If the jury had people who had the same opinion of music as me, you'd probably find the rap songs would chart higher, and the guitar songs would chart lower.

 

And if you got a jury of a wide variety of people with different musical tastes, their opinions would all cancel each other out and there'd be little effect on the chart.

 

I do agree with you that there's too much of the club/rap stuff at the moment, but I think the jury idea isn't an appropriate method of dealing with the problem. :lol:

 

Although I find I put down other people's ideas, yet I can't think of any myself. However, part of me thinks this honestly must be the peak now. I think club music will start dieing down soon, and I think rock and RnB will make a bit of a comeback again (it's crazy, since it seems like yesterday those genres were dominating!).

Clearly the jury should have an odd number of members and three would be too many. Naturally, I should be a member :D

 

Seriously, I don't like the idea of a jury. I would prefer to see the chart compiled in the same way as it is now. I may not always like the results but the chart reflects what people are buying and that's what it should be for.

Which week's singles was it you won?

I've written on the cut out from the paper that i kept that it was Monday 8th May 1989 which I think is the paper date.

 

It mentions I won the previous week's singles which must have been chart announced 30th April / dated 6th May.

 

Cut out has Top 4 unchanged, Ferry Cross The Mersey, Hand On Your Heart, Miss You Like Crazy and Requiem being that top 4.

This was my era, I was heavily into the New Romantic genre Spandau Balllet, Ultravox, Police, Duran Duran, Human League, Heaven 17, the beautiful Kim Wilde/Debbie Harry at the time :D the list is endless, I could go on and on.

 

Pretty much the same for me.

 

Interesting to see that 1/3rd of the people who voted started following music before 1990 - I thought there'd be fewer of us.

 

And my first crush was Clare Grogan after seeing Altered Images' "Happy Birthday" on Top Of The Pops in October 1981

 

She still looks pretty good now - hard to believe she's almost 50! :o

 

I think one way to stop it is have the chart around 85% singles sales and 15% jury. This way it could penalise these acts and even penalise people who have to feature a rapper just to get a hit e.g. Olly Murs.

 

Ooh ooh - can I be on that jury... :P

Edited July 24, 201113 yr by vidcapper

March 1980.

I still remember Tony Blackburn announcing that The Jam had gone straight into number one with 'Going Underground'. Little did I know just how unusual that was at the time. I had been aware of pop music and the charts since about 1978 but this was the time I started following them properly, religiously writing down the top 10 every week in a little book.

About October/November 96 I started listening to music-my brother had a copy of Now 35 and I loved it. Listening to the chart probably the beginning of 97. My brother listened before then but I'd only just turned 8 and didn't really understand it. My favourite years were definitely 1998, 2001, 2006 and 2008.

anyone watch top of the pops 1976...it way out of my era but its quality watching it.tony blackburn had an interview with one of the bay city rollers and elton had just entered at no9 with his future no1 dont go breaking my heart and the real thing were no1...(had hardly heard of the group but the song was instantly known.will be interesting to see how the music changes in the coming years!!

Beginning of 1973.

Beginning of 1973.

 

That's a relief - I was beginning to think I was the oldest member of this forum. :P