Does anyone know if the Big Top 40 will be playing it (as it is likely to be at #1 on their iTunes based chart) ?

Edited April 12, 201312 yr by Doctor Blind

Does anyone know if the Big Top 40 will be playing it (as it is likely to be at #1 on their iTunes based chart) ?

 

They haven't made a decision yet. I personally don't expect them to play it though.

Well, this has certainly been an interesting week for us chart fans hasn't it? It has been so funny to see everyone outside our little circle reacting to a song in this way.

Indeed it does annoy me how people who don't have a clue about the charts talking like they know everything lol.dont know how many people have said to me that Ding Dong is no1 when it was only no1 on iTunes!!!

"It's so distasteful! It's wrong to disseminate so much hate!!!!" mmmm

"It's so distasteful! It's wrong to disseminate so much hate!!!!" mmmm

 

Well said Andre

Some people seem to have had a sneak preview of Sunday's commentary :drama:

People have a right to express themselves and their opinions in this way if they want, and although I understand people's discomfort with any 'celebration' of someone's death, I do think that anybody of the stature of Mrs Thatcher is well aware that some people would indeed celebrate their death so I don't think she'd be bothered herself, nor do I think her children will be. I don't know anything about her grandchildren or if she has great grandchildren, so I concede that if any of them are still school age it may be distressing for them.

Also I've watched interviews Mrs Thatcher gave and she seemed to relish opposition, as if to her having no proper opposition would equate to not achieving anything. But above all I keep coming back to is the fact that Mrs Thatcher was very pro-capitalist and that the public marking her death by rushing to buy a luxury item, which a download you won't play again after next week surely is, would be, for her, the very best way she could hope her death to be marked, I honestly think she would love the idea and the fact she is still affecting Britain and causing political debate even though she is no longer with us. I believe the BBC should seek contact with Mrs Thatcher's surviving family and ask whether they would be comfortable with them playing it on the chart show, and if they are (or at least aren't actively against it) then they should play it.

I don't have any problem with people wanting to download it for comic value but people who actually celebrate her death make me sick to my stomach. Bunch of filthy scum.

I'm not sure how to start a poll myself but I think we should have one asking "How do you think Radio One should have handled the chart entry of 'Ding Dong'?" with answers ranging from, "not even mention it", "mention it but not play it" and "play it but don't say anything it", through "they did exactly the right thing", and on the other side "done the explanation and then played it in full" or even "treat it as a normal charting song". I would be interested to see what the results of such a poll would show.