At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur (I'm only 28 honest!) the charts mainly relied on sales of 10" shellac or resin discs until at least 1960, rather than the 7" vinyl that later made the single it's own. Vinyl obviously came in many variations of size, speed, shape and colour too.

Are dualdiscs the one with vinyl on one side and a cd on the other? I have one of that type but can't remember who it's by or find it, I think it was a group like Pendulum or something?

I have a few singles on video or dvd, that are literally just the video of the track plus maybe a short behind the scenes or something, I know they've never been eligible to the singles charts but I count them as part of my singles collection.

Have ringtones ever been chart eligible? I didn't think so but someone earlier seems to have suggested they are so it could be I'm wrong.

I suppose someone operating an early punchcard computer or mainframe may have been bored enough to make a punchcard version of a track but I doubt it was ever a commercial format outside of the ones used by fairground organs.

I've just thought of another one but don't know if it was ever a chart eligible format. I have some postcards that can be played on a turntable, but rather than music they are both pictures and audio of the royal wedding of Charles and Diana and were aimed at tourists in gift shops in London, I bought mine in a gift shop for about 20p each, and years after Diana had sadly died, when you would've thought they'd be asking for a bit more cash for them but it got me a bargain anywho.

I think I've one or two Abba "playable postcard" records, originating from Poland.

I don't get why DVD singles and more recently downloaded music videos don't get counted towards the chart. You're paying to own a copy of a song - just because it gets packaged with a music video that shouldn't make it not chart eligible! Hopefully the OCC will eventually allow digital video sales into the chart because it could cause some interesting chart moves...

It's all the more puzzling when you consider that CD's with the video on are (or at least were pre the download reorganisation of the rules) eligible, but the same product on a not too disimilar DVD isn't. I think that the chart's company might be afraid that some record company will put too much extra video footage on that mite create an unfair chart advantage,

Those postcard singles seem to have quite popular in Poland at one point.

i have a Status Quo - Burning bridges (video CD) 5" nothing to play it on though the CD bit works on

I have a usb version of Status Quo's "Pictures" best of... which comes in the shape of a guitar. There was also a nice usb edition of the Rolling Stones "Rolled Gold"....

If we're including albums I have a USB recording of Suede at the O2 last December :wub:

Not chart eligible but does anyone else remember Hit Clips??

I think I've one or two Abba "playable postcard" records, originating from Poland.

 

 

Perhaps it was cheaper to manufacture them rather than vinyl singles back in the Soviet Bloc days.