the deleating rule is meaning that record companys (being the evil manipulative beasts that they are) are deleating records to line up the next smash to radio/so people will buy the more expensive record

 

so should a barrier be introduced where a record can not be deleated unless they fall below a certain number.

 

think they have something in the albums chart in the usa to get rid of old albums into a cat album chart.

 

what number would you choose?

Under number 40 - then they're out of the main chart, so not many people would care. However, once it sells enough to get back into the top 40, it should re-enter. The top 40 is meant to be the main part of a chart to show what people are buying, not what the record companies want people to be buying.

dont think it should be 40 think it should give a little bit of help to acts that might continuly get to 42

Actually, as a long-time suffering Prince fan, maybe it should be number 30...

They should stop this stupid chart rule of needing a physical single, in about a year i would expect almost all single sales to be download. Let downloads count when they're sold, it would stop the problem of deleting sinlges (can't delete a download), downloads being brought weeks before release (J.Timberlake, Rhianna, A.Aguilera) and stop crappy acts getting to no.1 on fanbase alone (McFly)

I don't think any songs should be excluded from the chart when the physical single's deleted. That was not an option but I'd have voted that.

 

I think the only exclusions should be for singles that are offering too much for the money - free gifts worth more than the disc itself, singles the length of albums etc - because that is cheating the system a bit (IMO).