I think it was on BBC Four? You should watch it on the iPlayer, it's great! :D

Ah thanks Griff. Will look it up on the iPlayer :D

It was a celebration of 60 years of the singles chart - a great watch for any buzzjacker!

What do you lot think of this, if Chart Stats just put on an archive of just lists of the charts without chart numbers, so to find a position you will have to either count it down yourself, or copy and paste a copy to excel then number it yourself in a spare column. So it can claim that these are just lists of songs and artists in no particular order, allthough they are and by the look of it doesn't look like a chart.

 

for example a top 3(gonna make a chart up)

 

Little Mix - DNA

Bruno Mars - Locked out of Heaven

One Direction - Little things

 

The above just looks like a list of songs

 

either count down yourself manually or paste to excel put 1 in the first cell and drag down to the last in the list, and select fill series on the drop down option and hey presto you have a chart.

 

As explained on BBC 4 last night, the pepsi chart found a loophole they were not allowed to broadcast a full Top 40, so there was nothing in any paperwork/contracts that prevented them in broadcasting the Top 10, and they ended up broadcasting the Official Top 10 for 15 years, so there may be a loophole in the chart stats situation

 

 

Your analysis sounds right - contracts like these that the OCC are claiming can be easily unwound by reading the small print. This affair leaves a sick taste in my stomach and tells you how corporate bodies try and dictate when they have too much power!!

This thread has every single UK chart since 1952: http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?...asc&start=0

Same thread for UK albums charts since 1956 : http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35628

UK chartruns here (Not for all artists, but for most) : http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13100

Thanks for the links!

This is terrible news!

Here's another idea. Someone could hack their site and delete all of their chart data. This way they would HAVE to restore chartstats :D

Here's another idea. Someone could hack their site and delete all of their chart data. This way they would HAVE to restore chartstats :D

 

 

They seem to be massively stubbon, they will make us do without until they get their back up information back on line if someone did that, they are likely to have a hard drive full of back up info just in case something happens.

Awww. :( I always loved clicking a song/artist and viewing it's chart run and seeing the little graph. :(

 

 

Awww. :( I always loved clicking a song/artist and viewing it's chart run and seeing the little graph. :(

Same! :( I loved the graphs!

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UK singles charts there is now a Facebook campaign to keep up the pressure on the OCC - We will not go away until they give us what we want:

 

(copy and paste)

 

facebook.com/ukcharts

 

 

Well, after a quick Google I've found 'scans.chartarchive.org' which somehow still exists and contains scans of every top 75 (and top 100 where applicable) from 1970 to 2007 and some earlier ones which is... not ideal. But the data's still there at least. :drama:

 

Sadly it doesn't there are a few weeks missing and some where only the Top 40 is available (or can be read)

 

The most comprehensive thing we have is the UKMix threads and Polyhex though they are far from searchable in the way that chartstats was. RIP chart stats.

The graphs haven't been there for nine months so that's nothing new.

The graphs weren't that great anyway, what with only going up to the 11th week. The graph for 'Various Artists' was crazy though :lol:

The graphs haven't been there for nine months so that's nothing new.

They are when you change back to the old version.

The graphs weren't that great anyway, what with only going up to the 11th week.

Yeah, it would have been better if it was more than 11 weeks (11 weeks seems to be a bit of an odd number tbh! :P).

Where does it end?

 

Are the OCC gonna threaten wikipedia to take down all their chart info on artists, peak positions, sales awards etc?

 

tw@s

I also found chartstats was quite a good way of "remembering" old chart hits. For example whenever I get an iTunes voucher I usually go back to random months in 2009 etc to see if there's any random songs that i've forgot about and want to buy. :( It was very instant.

The most comprehensive thing we have is the UKMix threads and Polyhex though they are far from searchable in the way that chartstats was. RIP chart stats.

 

I've saved every page of that UKMix thread to my computer - OCC will force them to delete that as well if they see it. I'm not sure yet though if it has every Top 75 chart from the 1990s and 2000s, if not my project is finished :(