Nowadays though I am much more into music than I was in 2006/7/8. I'd say my interest level now (ie very high) started in 2009, around about when I started following music online as well.

 

Same actually! I'd say my love of chart music peaked in 2009 and as I started following music online (towards the end of 2009) that love started to decrease gradually, to be replaced by an ever growing obsession for music in general. And then I randomly started stanning for the chart itself and found myself here.

 

I think the first song I ever heard was Spinning Around by Kylie. I was like, 5. I remember thinking the video was brilliant.

^ Did the hotpants stand out to you even then as a 5 year old? :P

New Romantics era (1979-1988 Spandau Ballet, Police, Kim Wilde etc) I was only 12/13. Earliest track I remember my mum playing Norman Greenbaum "Spirit In The Sky" and I used to nick my mum's records to listen to the sixties music.

You were 12/13 for nine years? :o

New Romantics era (1979-1988 Spandau Ballet, Police, Kim Wilde etc) I was only 12/13. Earliest track I remember my mum playing Norman Greenbaum "Spirit In The Sky" and I used to nick my mum's records to listen to the sixties music.

 

As well as '81-'85 that I mentioned earlier, there was also '77-'79 for me (which tell you a lot of what I though of the music of 1980). :P

 

I just wish there'd been chart forums around at that time though! I had to be satisfied with clipping the charts, and Alan Jones's commentaries, from Record Mirror every week (I still have them). :)

 

I'm still very into the charts now - I can't get enough of sales info! Seriously, I get more excited than Kobbar when Gezza76 opens a new sales thread! :w00t:

 

I notice you're usually one of the first to answer my YTD sales threads. :P

I've aways been in and out when it comes to my interest in the chart. 97-98 (9-11), 2001 (13) and 2003-2008 (15-20) were probably the years I was most into it. Sometimes I forget to follow these days but I guess that's what age does to you.

1998-2002 (age 11-15), from 2003 onwards I found the charts to be so crap that I started to actively search out other music and have done ever since, even though the charts have come out of the dark days of the mid 00s, a couple of blips aside (the first half of last year was crap chartwise!).

The actual music would've been from 1997-2000 ish when I used to buy all the Now albums and enjoy most of what was on them (as well as Pepsi Chart, Hits and Big Hits compilations), I didn't do Now albums for very long but I had them all from 38 (I think? Xmas one possibly, blue/grey with pink on the cover) to 46 (again, I think? Black Legend/Spiller at the beginning of Disc 2) so then I guess. I stopped buying them after that, 2001-3 was a bit of an odd period, I can't really remember what I listened to then, and then I found the internet and forums in 2004 and my taste seems to have become further removed from the chart in every year since....

 

As for the actual charts, I still enjoy following them but I guess not as much as I care for so little of the music in them now.

I think I was most into chart music around 2008-09 and I'm still into it now but the odd popular song comes along nowadays and I cannot relate to why it would be popular whereas in the past even if I didn't like something I *got* why it was popular.

 

First song: Kylie & Jason - Especially For You, I must have been 2!

I'm still very into the charts now - I can't get enough of sales info! Seriously, I get more excited than Kobbar when Gezza76 opens a new sales thread! :w00t:

THIS IS A LIE- cannot possibly be true! :lol:

 

I'd say I got into the charts majorly in 1988 and rarely, if ever, missed a chart show until about 2004 and I've dipped in and out ever since, but I have to say since the last year or so I think it has bucked up a lot from the dirge around 2007-08

THIS IS A LIE- cannot possibly be true! :lol:

 

:lol: Hmm, perhaps not!