Posted March 23, 201213 yr The Almost Saturday charts were a Mike Robinson Production, based on an average from 5 download sites, iTunes sales & the odd physical at HMV. Top Physicals 01 NE JLS 02 NE MADONNA 03 01 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS 04 02 PAUL WELLER 05 03 MARCUS COLLINS Top 15 Combined Albums 15 14 MICHAEL BOLTON 14 12 DREAMBOATS & PETTICOATS: THE PETTICOAT COLLECTION - VARIOUS 13 NE SHINS 12 04 MICHAEL KIWANUKA 11 15 COLDPLAY 10 07 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL RUNNING - VARIOUS 09 06 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 08 05 BE MY BABY - VARIOUS 07 08 + - ED SHEERAN 06 10 BORN TO DIE - LANA DEL REY 05 03 21 - ADELE 04 02 EMELI SANDE 03 11 DAVID GUETTA 02 01 MILITARY WIVES 01 NE PAUL WELLER Top 70 Combined Songs CHER LLOYD COLLEGE ADELE - SLY KATY PERRY CALVIN HARRIS - YNA TAYLOR SWIFT MADONNA 10) REDLIGHT LMFAO - PRA CHRISTINA PERRI 60 ONE DIRECTION - WMYB 9) 59 LISSIE 58 AVICCI 57 BEYONCE - EOT 56 BLACK KEYS 55 CHIDDY BANG 54 GYM CLASS HEROES 53 M.I.A. 52 LABRINTH 51 DAVID GUETTA/USHER 50 ARCTIC MONKEYS 49 TAIO CRUZ 48 ED SHEERAN - LH 8) 47 FLO RIDA - GF 46 OLLY MURS - OMG 45 LANA DEL REY - VG 7inch 7) 44 COLDPLAY - PARADISE 43 WILL I. AM 42 COVER DRIVE 6) 41 LANA DEL REY - BTD 7inch 5) 40 DRAKE/RIHANNA 39 ANGEL/WRETCH 32 38 MAROON FIVE 37 TYGA 36 RIHANNA/CALVIN HARRIS 35 OLLY MURS - DWMT 34 DAPPY/BRIAN MAY 33 PITBULL/CHRIS BROWN 32 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 31 LLOYD 30 ALYSSA REID 29 LMFAO - SFPR 28 RIHANNA - TTT 27 COLDPLAY - CB 26 LIL' WAYNE 25 AZEALIA BANKS 24 ED SHEERAN - DRUNK 4) 23 MARCUS COLLINS 3) 22 RIZZLE KICKS 21 KELLY CLARKSON 20 LMFAO - SAIKI 19 YOU ME AT SIX 18 TINCHY STRYDER 17 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA 16 STOOSHE/TRAVIE MCCOY 15 JESSIE J 14 JASON MRAZ 13 DJ FRESH/RITA ORA 12inch 2) 12 JAY Z/KANYE WEST - NIGGAS 11 ALEXANDRA BURKE 10 GUETTA/MINAJ 09 EMELI SANDE 08 FLO RIDA/SIA 07 GUETTA/SIA 06 JLS 1) 05 NICKI MINAJ 04 LABRINTH 03 GOTYE/KIMBRA 02 SEAN PAUL 01 KATY PERRY ) Without downloads alone Cor, that chart looks familiar! Mainly, because it's pretty much the same, as the one Mike broadcasted last Sunday on "The Ultimate UK Chart". You can hear that across the net, every Sunday (of course) on great Internet Stations & RSLs, such as ABCbroadcasting.co.uk & Chase FM. I've got 3 shows. The Classic Retro Countdown plays those original charts of the 50s to the 80s, every Sunday at 2pm with Richard Todd on AtlanticOldies2NG & there's the new show, starting on Saturday 7th April at 3pm "Call Me Number One", where we'll be plaing out Worldwide number one hits, from the 40s to the 2000s...Don't miss that one, & if you end up in Hospital, you can catch me (personally) with the "Double Countdown Show" with those Top Tens (& Records outside the top 10s) from 1960 to 1987, every Sunday at 12pm. That's that for this Chart...never to be seen again! 4 years after MRIB finished the Singles chart. These days I (personally) think the charts, need a good kicking (as they are just shite) & out of date, before they even hit the air of Radio One. Goodness knows, why they even bother with a chart show! The truth is, everyone knows what's going to happen & you still get these dumbos, texting in to idiots (like Yates) as to what might be Number One (when it's a bloody foregone conclusion!!). The real reason that they've lost some 3 million listeners in 10 years. I leave you with a selection of hilariously worded signs, from around the World: (These are all real signs that exist) From: HELEN BENTLEY In a Bangkok Temple: IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN. Cocktail lounge, Norway: LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR. Doctor's office, Rome: SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES. Dry cleaners, Bangkok: DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS. In a Nairobi restaurant: CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE, OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER. On the main road to Mombasa, leaving Nairobi: TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE. On a poster at Kencom: ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO WE CAN HELP. In a City restaurant: OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS. In a Cemetery: PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS, FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES. Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations: GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE, OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED. On the menu of a Swiss Restaurant: OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR. In a Tokyo Bar: SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS. Hotel, Yugoslavia: THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE, IS THE JOB OF THE CHAMBERMAID. Hotel, Japan: YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID. In the lobby of a Moscow Hotel, across from a Russian Orthodox Monastery: YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY, WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY, EXCEPT THURSDAY. A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest: IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING SITE, THAT PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT, UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE. Hotel, Zurich: BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE. Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand: WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS? Airline ticket office, Copenhagen: WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS. A Laundry in Rome: LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND THEN SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME. And finally the all time classic Seen in an Abu Dhabi Souk shop window: IF THE FRONT IS CLOSED PLEASE ENTER THROUGH MY BACKSIDE… …. Priceless! Edited March 23, 201213 yr by davetaylor
March 23, 201213 yr The physical era is truly over then for established acts. They only seem to help Kylie Minogue now.
March 23, 201213 yr Thanks for posting these charts over the years Dave. You're right about the chart needing a shake up, or more specifically a shake out. There's far too many tracks that hang around forever. I could never warm to the charts of the mid 90s to mid 00s where high new entries and fallers were the norm and hardly anything climbed the chart. But the chart is now so slow that there's little excitement about it. And it's really only because of the iTunes chart that the Sunday chart at Radio 1 seems out of date. The purpose behind the chart is simply to list what singles (or these days, tracks) have sold the most over the past 7 days. However in an era of slow turn over it makes for a dull 3 hours on a Sunday, not helped by the presenter and the format of the show not being very good. There is no other way to compile the chart though, the likes of the Big Top 40 or whatever it is called on local radio is just gimmicky and is a mess. It would be a sad day if Radio 1 were to stop counting down the chart but the simple fact is the chart these days isn't as relevant to Radio 1 as it used to be. Up until the 90s it used to form the basis of the Radio 1 playlist (most top 40 entries would be added to the playlist if they weren't already on it) and DJs would often mention the chart position when playing a single but that rarely happens these days. again, with so few singles sold in record shops and no Top Of the Pops the chart doesn't occupy centre stage as it once did. There was a time when every record shop would have the Music Week chart pullout on the counter but that stopped for most record shops in the mid 90s when singles began to peak in week one. Now they don;t do this simply because there's so few singles for them to stock and Music Week stopped printing the chart pullout page in 2005 or 2006.
March 23, 201213 yr The chart is not out of date before it is broadcast. It is a countdown of the best selling songs over a seven day period ending just 16 hours before the programme starts. You might just as well say that the inflation rate or growth rate of the economy are out of date because they don't cover a period ending one minute ago.
March 23, 201213 yr For a time it seemed Radio 1 completely stopped caring about the chart, they'd spend more of the time chatting about random shite than talking about the actual chart but recently not only does the chart show seem to be more focused on the actual charts (playing every song in the top 40 and whatnot) but I also hear a lot more ads for the chart show than I used to a few months ago. Edited March 23, 201213 yr by Bréyhound
March 24, 201213 yr I agree that the charts are too slow-paced, but the general consensus of this forum seems to be that it's a good thing for lots of songs, that aren't even particularly big hits to be spending 5+ months in the top 40. :mellow:
March 24, 201213 yr Thanks for all your hard work over the years Dave, the chart prep is going to be a nightmare without you :lol: :( For a time it seemed Radio 1 completely stopped caring about the chart, they'd spend more of the time chatting about random shite than talking about the actual chart but recently not only does the chart show seem to be more focused on the actual charts (playing every song in the top 40 and whatnot) but I also hear a lot more ads for the chart show than I used to a few months ago. I agree with you (again :o) It seems like they've got their act in gear in the last few months. I do wonder if they were threatened with having the chart show taken away from them and they had to buck their ideas up. I agree that the charts are too slow-paced, but the general consensus of this forum seems to be that it's a good thing for lots of songs, that aren't even particularly big hits to be spending 5+ months in the top 40. :mellow: If a song spends 5 months in the top 40 it IS a big hit though! A song that goes 1-4-13-27-out is a much smaller hit than a song that bounces up and down between say 13 and 37 for 18 weeks.
March 24, 201213 yr Thanks for all your hard work over the years Dave, the chart prep is going to be a nightmare without you :lol: :( I agree with you (again :o) It seems like they've got their act in gear in the last few months. I do wonder if they were threatened with having the chart show taken away from them and they had to buck their ideas up. If a song spends 5 months in the top 40 it IS a big hit though! A song that goes 1-4-13-27-out is a much smaller hit than a song that bounces up and down between say 13 and 37 for 18 weeks. If you look in the past, it was very rare for a song to spend 5 months in the top 40. It was special. Now anything can do it. Look at International Love and Sexy and I Know It's chart runs. It just makes a mockery of long-runners. Compare the top 40 runs: Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody - 10-2-1-1-2-2-4-8-12-18-21-33-OUT LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It - 20-7-5-8-7-7-8-11-17-13-17-16-19-9-11-15-18-25-25-24-25-16-16-15-17-... and it's STILL going!! Do you think this is fun? Sorry, but the state we're in now is ridiculous. It's the same songs hogging up the chart for months on end. You don't need to spend 5 months top 40 to be a big hit or to "deserve" your #1. Edited March 24, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob
March 24, 201213 yr Author Thanks for posting these charts over the years Dave. You're right about the chart needing a shake up, or more specifically a shake out. There's far too many tracks that hang around forever. I could never warm to the charts of the mid 90s to mid 00s where high new entries and fallers were the norm and hardly anything climbed the chart. But the chart is now so slow that there's little excitement about it. And it's really only because of the iTunes chart that the Sunday chart at Radio 1 seems out of date. The purpose behind the chart is simply to list what singles (or these days, tracks) have sold the most over the past 7 days. However in an era of slow turn over it makes for a dull 3 hours on a Sunday, not helped by the presenter and the format of the show not being very good. There is no other way to compile the chart though, the likes of the Big Top 40 or whatever it is called on local radio is just gimmicky and is a mess. It would be a sad day if Radio 1 were to stop counting down the chart but the simple fact is the chart these days isn't as relevant to Radio 1 as it used to be. Up until the 90s it used to form the basis of the Radio 1 playlist (most top 40 entries would be added to the playlist if they weren't already on it) and DJs would often mention the chart position when playing a single but that rarely happens these days. again, with so few singles sold in record shops and no Top Of the Pops the chart doesn't occupy centre stage as it once did. There was a time when every record shop would have the Music Week chart pullout on the counter but that stopped for most record shops in the mid 90s when singles began to peak in week one. Now they don;t do this simply because there's so few singles for them to stock and Music Week stopped printing the chart pullout page in 2005 or 2006. Thanks Robbie! And I do agree about the Big Top 40. It's a silly gimmick, that doesn't work to the point of (the so called up to date chart at 6pm). It's not up to date, because it's just how iTunes looks at 6pm. Then, anyone can look at iTunes at 6pm & get the same result. It doesn't mean anything, because by 7pm, it's change again. The way airplay is used in the 11 to 40 is quite ridiculous & just reflects, what stagnant producers decide to playlist on Heart or Capital (otherwise known as Global Radio). Mike's Ultimate UK Chart does it better, because you get a full 16 hour sweep plus a small physical element. He adds airplay from Jason Scott's Internet stations (though just climbers & new entries). The result is a pretty much midweek chart on a Sunday. And it is a better chart show (even if I do say so, myself!). I mean if you listen to Radio One, you can guess what's coming next. With Mike's effort, you're pushed to even guess, what's even going to be #1. With Radio One giving midweek information, you'll never gonna have a "Fresh" sound on a Sunday. Perhaps, Radio One should just do a Wednesday Midweek Chart & forget the rest of the week, coz that's as Fresh as they get & with Big Top 40's 2.5 million listeners to Radio One's 900,000...there is definately something a miss here...whatever anyone says.
March 24, 201213 yr Thanks for posting the thread for the past few years, I usually do a lot of prep thru it for the Sunday chart, it will be sadly missed. On a different note to me the chart is a Tracks Chart as anything can chart and sticks around for such a long time, someone is singing Set Fire To The Rain on the Voice tonight :rolleyes: here will go again, when will the track ever go away. I'm sick to death with the old music hogging the singles chart for weeks on end, that's why there is hardly any new entries each week, when in the 90s there was 10 to 15 new entries per week, now hardly new material gets to chart top 40 and this is were Rock/Indie tracks tend to suffer.
March 24, 201213 yr Thanks for posting the thread for the past few years, I usually do a lot of prep thru it for the Sunday chart, it will be sadly missed. On a different note to me the chart is a Tracks Chart as anything can chart and sticks around for such a long time, someone is singing Set Fire To The Rain on the Voice tonight :rolleyes: here will go again, when will the track ever go away. I'm sick to death with the old music hogging the singles chart for weeks on end, that's why there is hardly any new entries each week, when in the 90s there was 10 to 15 new entries per week, now hardly new material gets to chart top 40 and this is were Rock/Indie tracks tend to suffer.Rock and Indie acts are the biggest losers in the digital age. Many of the acts in those genres are / were very much fan based acts and it was the fans rushing out to buy the single in the first week that was responsible for a lot of those type of acts getting into the top 40. And it was this that made for the charts having a lot of variety with singles from a number of genres making the charts. The lack of big rock / indie singles means that stations like XFM (which I still like to listen to) are having to play an increasingly larger number of older tracks as there's so few current mainstream guitar based hits about any more. Though of course the station could be a bit more adventurous and playlist less obviously commercial new releases, of which there are still plenty out there. They just don't make the charts like they would have at one time...
March 24, 201213 yr Author Rock and Indie acts are the biggest losers in the digital age. Many of the acts in those genres are / were very much fan based acts and it was the fans rushing out to buy the single in the first week that was responsible for a lot of those type of acts getting into the top 40. And it was this that made for the charts having a lot of variety with singles from a number of genres making the charts. The lack of big rock / indie singles means that stations like XFM (which I still like to listen to) are having to play an increasingly larger number of older tracks as there's so few current mainstream guitar based hits about any more. Though of course the station could be a bit more adventurous and playlist less obviously commercial new releases, of which there are still plenty out there. They just don't make the charts like they would have at one time... The thing that really grates on me, is surely everyone that wanted to buy anything by Adele (God forbid!), such as "Set Fire To Her Brain" has already purchased it by now...So, why do these inferior talent type shows, make people download the damn thing again & again & again? Are they so, mindnumbling boring (like Independant Radio seem to think)?
March 24, 201213 yr Thanks for the hard work. Think the chart is still what it used to be like only now its controlled more by people who are controlled by commercial radio sectors!
March 24, 201213 yr If you look in the past, it was very rare for a song to spend 5 months in the top 40. It was special. Now anything can do it. Look at International Love and Sexy and I Know It's chart runs. It just makes a mockery of long-runners. Compare the top 40 runs: Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody - 10-2-1-1-2-2-4-8-12-18-21-33-OUT LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It - 20-7-5-8-7-7-8-11-17-13-17-16-19-9-11-15-18-25-25-24-25-16-16-15-17-... and it's STILL going!! Do you think this is fun? Sorry, but the state we're in now is ridiculous. It's the same songs hogging up the chart for months on end. You don't need to spend 5 months top 40 to be a big hit or to "deserve" your #1. No, but it's proof that it's popular. The chart is as democratic as it's ever been, why change?
March 24, 201213 yr Author No, but it's proof that it's popular. The chart is as democratic as it's ever been, why change? But it doesn't answer the question, as to why 5/6 months in it's still be purchased (by likely the same people that already bought it previously). It's like multi-purchasing of the same thing & it really is what the "Tracks Chart" is. It's open to hype on a long term scale. Not really a reflection of the "real" general pubic (abeit your dappy female in the 18 - 30 group i.e. your Heart listener). It's the ones that have a short attention span, that of a moth! It's not really democracy. More like a niche market of the same person(s). It's like only the Conservatives turning up, at the Election...You get the same result, over & over! Edited March 24, 201213 yr by davetaylor
March 24, 201213 yr (by likely the same people that already bought it previously). It's like multi-purchasing of the same thing & it really is what the "Tracks Chart" is. And what evidence exactly do you have to support this? iTunes doesn't even LET you buy the same song twice unless it's a different version. Not sure about other download sites but iTunes dominates the download market anyway so other sites barely influence anything.
March 24, 201213 yr Author And what evidence exactly do you have to support this? iTunes doesn't even LET you buy the same song twice unless it's a different version. Not sure about other download sites but iTunes dominates the download market anyway so other sites barely influence anything. Multipli accounts? Using their mates? Who knows? But it sure gets on my tits! All then (maybe) most females of that ilk, are just influenced by their mates or crappy tv, that they have no mind of their own. They are hypnotised by what people tell 'em. It other words...Gullible. Edited March 24, 201213 yr by davetaylor
March 24, 201213 yr But it doesn't answer the question, as to why 5/6 months in it's still be purchased (by likely the same people that already bought it previously). It's like multi-purchasing of the same thing & it really is what the "Tracks Chart" is. Sorry but that's only speculation plus for example on iTunes you can't buy the same song twice because it says it is already bought. (you can buy it though if you purchase it from a compilation or from a different EP from the one you've bought it). I don't know about Amazon or the other download sites though but I can imagine it blocks you to buy the same track twice.
March 24, 201213 yr Multipli accounts? Using their mates? Who knows? But it sure gets on my tits! I repeat, what evidence do you have?
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