Posted December 16, 201113 yr Friday 16th December 2011 (Just a week to Winter) The Almost Saturday Charts are a Mike Robinson Production. Top Physicals (Shame this isn't the chart that counts today, as it's much better than the awful chart full of overplayed Christmas songs & Tuneless wonders of the download age, that teenage girls aged 13 to 30 buy...& yeah 30 year olds, with a mentallity of a teenager. There's lots around believe me). Those people that think Titanic beer goes down well, get it?! 20 15 SUCK IT & SEE - ARCTIC MONKEYS 19 NE I WANNA ROO YOU - RUMER 18 14 BE WITH YOU - ERASURE 17 13 WITH UR LOVE - CHER LLOYD 16 12 GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU - SOLDIERS/ROBIN GIBB 15 11 AKA WHAT A LIFE - NOEL'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS 14 09 LIGHTNING - THE WANTED 13 10 HEART SKIPS A BEAT - OLLY MURS 12 08 TAKE A CHANCE ON ME - JLS 11 06 MY HEART TAKES OVER - SATURDAYS 10 NE HAPPY THIS CHRISTMAS - MICK HUCKNELL 09 05 LEGO HOUSE - ED SHEERAN 08 04 TEARDROP - THE COLLECTIVE 07 07 WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL - ONE DIRECTION 06 RE WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS - WOMBLES 05 RE DECEMBER SONG - GEORGE MICHAEL 04 03 LIGHTHOUSE - WESTLIFE 03 02 GOTTA BE YOU - ONE DIRECTION 02 01 WISHING ON A STAR - X FACTOR FINALISTS 6,000 01 NE CANNONBALL - LITTLE MIX 20,000+ The Top 10 Albums 10 10 UP ALL NIGHT - ONE DIRECTION 09 07 + - ED SHEERAN 08 04 HEAVEN - REBECCA FERGUSON 07 07 21 - ADELE 06 06 TALK THAT TALK - RIHANNA 05 05 IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW - OLLY MURS 04 03 NOW 80 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 03 09 MYLO XYLOTO - COLDPLAY 02 01 HIDDEN TREASURES - AMY WINEHOUSE 01 02 CHRISTMAS - MICHAEL BUBLE Top 50 Singles (Based on an average of 5 download sites, plus actual iTunes sales & physical info at HMV) 50 50 SOMEONE LIKE YOU - ADELE 49 38 WITHOUT YOU - DAVID GUETTA/USHER 48 43 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - SHAKIN' STEVENS 47 41 DO YOU FEEL WHAT I FEEL - JLS 46 31 WHEREVER YOU WILL GO - CHARLENE SORAIA 45 NE CHRISTMAS - MICHAEL BUBLE 44 40 A TEAM - ED SHEERAN 9) 43 35 HEART SKIPS A BEAT - OLLY MURS 8) 42 18 STILL SPEEDIN' - SWAY 41 32 READ ALL ABOUT IT - PROFESSOR GREEN 40 37 VIDEO GAMES - LANA DEL REY 7" 7) 39 23 NOTHING'S REAL BUT LOVE - REBECCA FERGUSON 38 30 MIDNIGHT RUN - EXAMPLE 37 36 DO THEY KNOW IT'S XMAS - BAND AID 36 33 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY - SLADE 35 RE YOU DA ONE - RIHANNA 6000 34 34 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - SLOW MOVING MILLIE 33 29 OUR DAY WILL COME - AMY WINEHOUSE 32 26 JAR OF HEARTS - CHRISTINA PERRI 31 28 I WISH IT COULD BE XMAS EVERY DAY - WIZZARD 30 21 MARRY THE NIGHT - LADY GAGA 7" 6) 29 17 FIGHT FOR YOU - JASON DERULO 28 27 LAST XMAS - WHAM! 27 20 IT WILL RAIN - BRUNO MARS 26 39 WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL - ONE DIRECTION 5) 25 24 MISTLETOE - JUSTIN BIEBER 24 22 LOVE ON TOP - BEYONCE 23 25 ONE THAT GOT AWAY - KATY PERRY 22 RE DON'T LET GO - EN VOGUE 21 RE CANNONBALL - DAMIEN RICE 20 11 DOWN FOR WHOEVER - KELLY ROWLAND 19 07 WHO YOU ARE - JESSIE J 18 48 MAMA DO THE HUMP - RIZZLE KICKS 17 02 WISHING ON A STAR - X FACTOR FINALISTS 4) 16 19 SEXY AND I KNOW IT - LMFAO 15 14 TAKE CARE - DRAKE 14 15 MOVES LIKE JAGGER - MAROON FIVE 13 16 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK - POGUES/KIRSTY MACOLL 862,000 sold since 1987 7" 3) 12 13 EARTHQUAKE - LABRINTH 11 05 5 0' CLOCK - T.PAIN 10 12 ALL I WANT FOR XMAS IS YOU - MARIAH CAREY 790,000 sold since 1994 09 09 LEGO HOUSE - ED SHEERAN 2) 08 08 LEVELS - AVICCI 07 NE HURT - LEONA LEWIS 06 04 GOOD FEELING - FLO RIDA 05 06 WE FOUND LOVE - RIHANNA/CALVIN HARRIS 04 03 DEDICATION TO MY X - LLOYD 03 01 DANCE WITH ME TONIGHT - OLLY MURS 02 10 PARADISE - COLDPLAY 45,000 01 NE CANNONBALL - LITTLE MIX 137,000 1) ) Without downloads alone Bubbling Under in the 51 - 75 FORGIVENESS - WRETCH 32 ANYWAY - CEE LO GREEN WILD YOUNG & FREE - SNOOP DOGG/WIZ KHALIFA/BRUNO MARS CHARLIE BROWN - COLDPLAY HURT - JOHNNY CASH STEP INTO CHRISTMAS - ELTON JOHN FIX YOU - COLDPLAY SUPERBAD - DOCTOR P/FLUX PAVILION DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS - CHRIS REA UP - JESSIE J/JAMES MORRISON WARZONE - WANTED ALL ABOUT TONIGHT - PIXIE LOTT Edited December 16, 201113 yr by Jester Email removed as contained personal data.
December 16, 201113 yr 45k? That's surely WAY too low for Coldplay, it had sold 30k+ on Sunday and Monday alone... Edited December 16, 201113 yr by Bré
December 16, 201113 yr Author 45k? That's surely WAY too low for Coldplay, it had sold 30k+ on Sunday and Monday alone... Don't know mate. I don't put it together. Coldplay have only shifted 8000 a day since then, so that's Tuesday/Weds/Thurs...maybe Mike's missed some days. In which case it's more like 61/62,000.
December 16, 201113 yr Author Is there really a physical version for the Pogues :o 7" Vinyl at £3.99 if you please! :o
December 16, 201113 yr I've definitely heard Florence + The Machine on the Big Top 40 Show before. You Got the Dirtee Love was #1 on it iirc, and they had to play You've Got the Love for about 6 months too (due to them including airplay in the lower bit of the chart). That said, surely Shake It Out is more Heart-friendly than, say, Earthquake? :lol:
December 16, 201113 yr Author I've definitely heard Florence + The Machine on the Big Top 40 Show before. You Got the Dirtee Love was #1 on it iirc, and they had to play You've Got the Love for about 6 months too (due to them including airplay in the lower bit of the chart). That said, surely Shake It Out is more Heart-friendly than, say, Earthquake? :lol: Some of that email is from 2009. But it still beggars the question...If they don't intend playing certain songs, then why are they in there in the first place? Airplay = We play it on our stations, surely to goodness?
December 16, 201113 yr Some of that email is from 2009. But it still beggars the question...If they don't intend playing certain songs, then why are they in there in the first place? Airplay = We play it on our stations, surely to goodness? Apparently the chart only includes airplay from the stations that broadcast the Big Top 40 Show. Which is a good way of pushing the Radio 1-only songs further down the chart.
December 16, 201113 yr Sorry Dave, had to remove the email - it contained personal data and I don't want us to get into trouble because of it. Feel free to repost a summary of the emails if you want to though. Ta.
December 16, 201113 yr I don't see how Florence + The Machine are 'commercial radio unfriendly' anyway.
December 16, 201113 yr It's a good way to make it a MEANINGLESS LOAD OF SHIT you mean :P Well, it's not TOTALLY meaningless. And in terms of the show itself, ignoring it's methods of compiling the chart, it's much better presented than the Radio 1 chart show (although I haven't listened to it in a long time, but that used to be the case anyway). It's just SO confusing to understand how it works, and I swear they change the rules every few months too, especially with the top 10 they played at the beginning of the show. One week it'd be the iTunes top 10 at 4pm on Sunday, the next week it was the total iTunes sales over the week, the week after it'd be the iTunes chart as of Wednesday at mid-night. So confusing. I could never work it out. It'd be a much better chart if they simply did an iTunes freeze of the top 40 on 4pm Sunday. It'd be MUCH easier for the audience to understand how it works, you wouldn't have airplay keeping Only Girl and I Gotta Feeling in the top 40 for 18 months, and you'd get some interesting songs cropping up at the lower-end of the top 40, but now they never chart because all the interesting songs obviously don't get airplay on Heart FM, etc. Edited December 16, 201113 yr by Eric_Blob
December 16, 201113 yr Author It's a good way to make it a MEANINGLESS LOAD OF SHIT you mean :P I'm horrified that 2.5million actually listen to it. Are they not paying attention &/or are they just plain thick? Looking at some figures for Radio One vs Independant Radio, the other day: In 1986: Radio One Top 40 11million The Network Top 30 6million In 1997: Radio One Top 40 5million The Pepsi Chart 5.5million In 2005: Radio One Top 40 2.5million Hit40UK (Capital) 2million Smash Hits Chart (Emap) .2million The A List (Heart) .3million 2011: Radio One Top 40 1million Big Top 40 2.5million Can't quite get my head around how Independant Radio, haven't lost as many listeners, as Radio One in 25 years. Independant Radio 6million in 1986 & 2.5 today. Radio One 11million in 1986 & 1million today. Edited December 16, 201113 yr by davetaylor
December 16, 201113 yr I'm horrified that 2.5million actually listen to it. Are they not paying attention &/or are they just plain thick? They're probably not specifically listening to the chart show. Just turning the radio, and it's on. Like all those radio stations would probably get 2.5 million listeners combined whatever they were playing, if I'm making sense. Most of the audience don't care about the charts. They're just listening to the songs, if you get what I mean. They just get in the car and turn Capital on, and it happens to be playing a chart at that time. Plus, what gets played on the Big Top 40 Show is the most variety you'll ever hear on Heart FM tbh. And I've never heard them claim to be the official chart. They just say they are the most-listened to chart show (which they are).
December 16, 201113 yr Author Well, it's not TOTALLY meaningless. And in terms of the show itself, ignoring it's methods of compiling the chart, it's much better presented than the Radio 1 chart show (although I haven't listened to it in a long time, but that used to be the case anyway). It's just SO confusing to understand how it works, and I swear they change the rules every few months too, especially with the top 10 they played at the beginning of the show. One week it'd be the iTunes top 10 at 4pm on Sunday, the next week it was the total iTunes sales over the week, the week after it'd be the iTunes chart as of Wednesday at mid-night. So confusing. I could never work it out. It'd be a much better chart if they simply did an iTunes freeze of the top 40 on 4pm Sunday. It'd be MUCH easier for the audience to understand how it works, you wouldn't have airplay keeping Only Girl and I Gotta Feeling in the top 40 for 18 months, and you'd get some interesting songs cropping up at the lower-end of the top 40, but now they never chart because all the interesting songs obviously don't get airplay on Heart FM, etc. I wouldn't say it's difficult to understand how it works. Currently it's Sun to Sat sales for the Top 10 for the week on iTunes for the 4-4.30pm countdown. Then you've got the 40-11 50/50 airplay for the week. So, thats the chart for the week & the only part with any sense at all. The 6pm Lockdown on the Live iTunes Top 10 is the bit, where they try to be ahead of Radio One, but because they don't include multipli versions of songs together, you end up with the wrong number one...like Flo Rida's "Good Feeling", which definately wasn't really at the top at any point. Over in Australia, they broadcast the "Live" iTunes Top 40, but on that all multipli versions are linked together & it's a good show.
December 16, 201113 yr Author They're probably not specifically listening to the chart show. Just turning the radio, and it's on. Like all those radio stations would probably get 2.5 million listeners combined whatever they were playing, if I'm making sense. Most of the audience don't care about the charts. They're just listening to the songs, if you get what I mean. They just get in the car and turn Capital on, and it happens to be playing a chart at that time. Plus, what gets played on the Big Top 40 Show is the most variety you'll ever hear on Heart FM tbh. And I've never heard them claim to be the official chart. They just say they are the most-listened to chart show (which they are). Yeah. I get your drift. Guess it means that Radio One lost 6million between 1986 & 1997, because of the 1993 Radio axing of all the old tribe of presenters, or everybody hated Bruno Brookes & Mark Goodier.
December 16, 201113 yr I wouldn't say it's difficult to understand how it works. Currently it's Sun to Sat sales for the Top 10 for the week on iTunes for the 4-4.30pm countdown. Then you've got the 40-11 50/50 airplay for the week. So, thats the chart for the week & the only part with any sense at all. The 6pm Lockdown on the Live iTunes Top 10 is the bit, where they try to be ahead of Radio One, but because they don't include multipli versions of songs together, you end up with the wrong number one...like Flo Rida's "Good Feeling", which definately wasn't really at the top at any point. Over in Australia, they broadcast the "Live" iTunes Top 40, but on that all multipli versions are linked together & it's a good show. Yeah, like what they do on Australia would be good. I've seen so many weird things happen on the Big Top 40 Show. Like when there were the two versions of Forget You in the top 10, they'd play and chart both. And there was another week (when Pass Out and Telephone were at the top of the charts), where a massive bunch of songs got deleted from the iTunes feed for some reasons, including a few in the top 10. Now THAT was a mess. It's also messy when, either, a song that was played in the #11-#40 region climbs back into the top 10 at 6pm, or when a song that was higher than the #11 drops out of the top 10. As then in the first scenario, you get a song charting twice, and in the 2nd scenario, you get a song that's actually been very popular that week, not appearing in the chart. So I think the chart is quite poor overall, but if they had a more sensible way of compiling the chart, I wouldn't mind it.
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