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... if everyone was only allowed to buy one copy of each single (per week)?

 

It would certainly eliminate the fanbase effect, for a start - but would surely give a better indication of how *many* people actually like a particular song...

 

edit : I know this isn't remotely practical, it's just idle speculation.... :)

 

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It's not something that you could police as people could use other download sites or buy a song through another method - at a friend's house, via an iPhone or iPad rather than a laptop etc...and there's nothing to stop people buying remixes of the song or the same thing from a compilation or something.

 

Obviously it would hinder fanbase acts if it could be done, but it can't. It would restrict freedom of choice. Robyn's With Every Heartbeat got to #1 a few years ago because there were about 4 different mixes of it in the iTunes top 100, all of which I bought because I wanted all of them. iTunes would have got a strongly worded complaint if I'd been halted from buying more than 1 remix a week, yet as I gather all 4 that I bought would have counted towards her chart position, certainly if I'd bought them on different computers/mediums!

I don't think it would look a lot different. It's only the big fangirls who buy more than 1 version to inflate someone's chart position - most people will only buy it once. Plus there are people who genuinely like 2 versions of a song (e.g. the original + a dance remix) who may want to buy both of them separately if the 2 songs aren't on the same EP.

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