Since 2009 - I took over from the then sales stats keepers Andy & Dave.

 

Ah those are the haven guys right?

There just isn't an incentive to listen to the chart anymore. I used to be religious about it. But I can find out the top 40 I'm an instant online. Slow moving charts full of the same songs every week and poor quality production of the chart (Jameela reading out the same facts and making the same jokes every week) doesn't make for thrilling listening.

 

What do the teenagers think of the chart? I really want to know. Is it that I've just become old? At age 25?

Ive been chart watching for 26 years, but of more recent less obsessed about chart facts - like longest stays at no.1 (not that we get any anymore anyhow..) and sales figures and more pop historian/chart fan. I kind of agree with Popchartfreak we need a movement of some sort and there needs to be a greater variety of genres in the charts.

Edited August 14, 201410 yr by fiesta

highly obsessive ~ follow the charts very closely, although lately i am tiring of the ridiculous levels of instability at the top of the chart and the general staleness in the bottom reaches

Ah those are the haven guys right?

 

Well Andy is still a regular there - don't know about Dave.

I know we need a little more movement in the Top 100 right now but the movements in #1s is quite ridiculous.

 

I much preferred it when some singles stay at #1 for 3 or 4 weeks or when they climbed to number one over a number of weeks like Nico & Vinz who've taken 6 weeks to get there.

 

I hate this straight in at #1 or entering at peak positions.

 

 

Nico + Vinz may as well have been an entry at #1 really, the only reason it bobbed around in the lower reaches is they had it available for streaming to prepare it for release week, which was last week.

 

It's not as if it naturally climbed to #1 after 6 weeks or anything.

There just isn't an incentive to listen to the chart anymore. I used to be religious about it. But I can find out the top 40 I'm an instant online. Slow moving charts full of the same songs every week and poor quality production of the chart (Jameela reading out the same facts and making the same jokes every week) doesn't make for thrilling listening.

 

What do the teenagers think of the chart? I really want to know. Is it that I've just become old? At age 25?

 

Music channels often show the chart. People I know enjoy the Big Top 40.

I'm incredibly obsessive when it comes to my favourite songs/artists reaching the Top Ten at least because I want them to do well commercially otherwise they might get dropped but at the same time I don't care where my favourite smaller independent artists peak on the charts because their intention is to make music and please fans not bag a Top 40 placing every time! Not saying bigger artists don't want to please their fans, the majority do! ...but a lot of regular top 40 acts are quite manufactured, whether they like it or not and have huge success only to fizzle out within 5-10 years...which is both unfair for the fans and musician/s themselves.

 

Also I feel big commercial acts experience more pressure to be perfect, to sell out bigger venues and sell large amounts of singles/albums so I feel bad when they flop, especially if they're heavily expected to succeed well by management/the media/fans. I feel smaller artists who are 100% about the music have a relaxed approach to the charts which as a fan is comforting when it comes to the charts, especially with streaming involved.

 

Also when generic rubbish tops the charts and my favourite artists are at a lower chart place I get annoyed cos I don't think they deserve to be lower than a forgettable dance song.

Edited August 14, 201410 yr by Sociopath

Nico + Vinz may as well have been an entry at #1 really, the only reason it bobbed around in the lower reaches is they had it available for streaming to prepare it for release week, which was last week.

 

It's not as if it naturally climbed to #1 after 6 weeks or anything.

 

Yeh it basically did but once streaming becomes even bigger tracks could enter the top 40 before download release . Also I if this specific song had an on air release it would have risen up the chart imo