Taking the ethical side out if it

 

I've got to admit this is an impressive chart campaign, so many just fall flat on their faces but this one is actually doing really well.

 

That wasn't an endorsement just pointing out it's done well in comparison to how much of these campaigns do.

28. Jakwob - Fade (Vocal) [feat. Maiday]

30. R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix)

37. PSY - Gentleman

52. Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul - Breathe (feat. Sean Paul, Sean Paul & Sean Paul) [Rap Version]

 

Great to see these doing well ^^

 

75. Notsensibles - I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher

 

Looks like the Thatcher lovers are finally fighting back against the Ding-Dong campaign

 

Theyve won - bbc arent playing it because of pressure from the Mail tory cronies - censorship in action in Britain 2013!

 

Hopefully it could surge to no1 now after this!!

Edited April 12, 201312 yr by steve201

As I said in the Thatcher thread, they would probably play it if it did go to #1. So if you haven't bought it yet, do it now!

Although the song might be in bad taste i find it disgusting that in 2013 the BBC are partaking in censorship and it seems that freedom of speech in the UK is becoming more questionable all the time :/

They are playing some a clip of it and thy are going to recognise it so it's not as though it's censorship. Censorship would be failing to even acknowledge it which is what I can see the Big Top 40 doing.

I could see the Big Top 40 going straight from #3 to #1 if I'm being honest. They'll probably play it when they do the Top 10 recap though, which will be hilarious. :lol:

They are playing some a clip of it and thy are going to recognise it so it's not as though it's censorship. Censorship would be failing to even acknowledge it which is what I can see the Big Top 40 doing.

Fair enough if they play a clip... but i can't remember a time when the top 3 weren't played in full :P

Ooh! I've just seen this:

 

Ding Dong!, attributed to Garland and the cast of the movie, is also expected to feature in the Capital Chart's Big Top 40.

 

A spokesman for Capital FM said the station was currently "reviewing the situation".

2 Duke Dumont - Need U (100%) [feat. A*M*E] [Radio Edit] 0.7390

If this media storm continues 'Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead' is going to get #1, it just keeps growing as the controversy continues. As it is I think it's still set to stall at #2 (still 12k behind in today's mids I see) but if that lead grows more...

 

29. Ignition (Remix) - R. Kelly

Can't believe how high this has got, it'll probably be put back to 99p some time next week preventing it from re-entering the official top 40 of course but it should get close!

 

35. Gentleman - PSY

Bit surprised this has actually been released here already. Might not go top 10 though at its current rate.

 

53. I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher - Notsensibles

Is this song supposed to be the opposite side of the campaign or is it meant to be ironic?

 

85. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead - British Collective

53. I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher - Notsensibles

Is this song supposed to be the opposite side of the campaign or is it meant to be ironic?

 

It is the one from the opposite side, although I'm assuming that they haven't picked up on the irony.

Ergh. The Daily Fail are in uproar about whether a song should be played on the radio or not, but wasn't it them that had a column which led to an innocent woman committing suicide (as it was about her and her sex change, and how it was wrong for her to be a primary school teacher), and are yet (to my knowledge) to publish an apology/sack the writer who wrote that column? PISSTAKE!

It is the one from the opposite side, although I'm assuming that they haven't picked up on the irony.

 

Is the song mockingly 'in love with Margaret Thatcher'? Or actually serious, acting as an opponent to Ding Dong?

So many ancient songs doing well recently, I'm sure the 59p songs don't usually do this well! Eamon is not welcome back :( although most of the others are decent, Savage Garden :wub:

 

Late response but the 59p bunch this time is largely 'new' 59p songs (i.e. songs that haven't been 59p before, at least not for a while) whereas other recent bunches have been mainly reusing songs that were 59p before. The low sales environment could also be contributing to it. The 59p boost doesn't usually dominate this much but it does on occasion and this is clearly one of those occasions!

This statement is from Ben Copper, who is the Controller of Radio 1.

 

There are times as Controller of Radio 1 when you find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place. The rise up the charts of the Judy Garland song “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead” is one of those moments.

 

I find the campaign to promote the song in response to the death of Baroness Thatcher as distasteful as anyone and I’ve thought long and hard about how to respond.

 

On one side there is the understandable anger of large numbers of people who are appalled by this campaign. On the other there is the question of whether the chart show – which has run since the birth of Radio 1 in 1967 – can ignore a high new entry which clearly reflects the views of a big enough portion of the record buying public to propel it up the charts. Above all, in the middle of this furore is a grieving family.

 

Nobody at Radio 1 wishes to cause offence but nor do I believe that we can ignore the song in the chart show, which is traditionally a formal record of the biggest selling singles of the week. That in turn means that all songs in the chart become an historic fact.

 

I’ve therefore decided exceptionally that we should treat the rise of the song, based as it is on a political campaign to denigrate Lady Thatcher’s memory, as a news story. So we will play a brief excerpt of it in a short news report during the show which explains to our audience why a 70-year-old song is at the top of the charts. Most of them are too young to remember Lady Thatcher and many will be baffled by the sound of the Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz.

 

To ban the record from our airwaves completely would risk giving the campaign the oxygen of further publicity and might inflame an already delicate situation.

 

He's also just added in a BBC News interview that the length of the clip they'll play will be "4 or 5 seconds". :manson:

 

This statement is from Ben Copper, who is the Controller of Radio 1.

He's also just added in a BBC News interview that the length of the clip they'll play will be "4 or 5 seconds". :manson:

Maybe they will play as follows: "Ding Dong... the... " and cut :lol:

That's brilliant news.

53. I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher - Notsensibles

Is this song supposed to be the opposite side of the campaign or is it meant to be ironic?

 

 

It is the one from the opposite side, although I'm assuming that they haven't picked up on the irony.

 

Yup:

 

"One Facebook group is seeking to boost sales of (I'm In Love With) Margaret Thatcher, a 1980 track by the punk band Notsensible.

 

That news came as a surprise to band member Steven Hartley, who told the BBC News website the song had been conceived as a satirical swipe at the former Conservative leader.

 

"We were of Thatcher's Britain - just a bunch of ordinary north-west lads from a north-western town," said guitarist Hartley, who nonetheless said it would be "great" if the song charted."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21241791

Edited April 12, 201312 yr by Danny

Notsensibles now at 37.

It may not be necessarily supporting Thatcher but both sides can appreciate the song. It isn't particularly negative either, more neutral. it isn't preaching hate and it's quite an entertaining song!