I don't really know what's going on with the music world - but I soooooo don't get this obsession with deleting singles. It's becoming "fashionable" to delete singles it seems atm.

 

The thing is, in an age where singles sales count for very little - I can't understand why they would delete singles - considering how much promotion goes behind them.

 

With Gnarls - I really wanted it to complete its chart run so that it would at least outsell the crappy x-factor song that comes out (if that's my goal is anything to go by)

 

It just means that artists promote one song for like a few weeks and then they're onto the next. You're much better off doing a Kasabian (which didn't really have as an interesting chart run as I might have expected) - otherwise you've released an album, and three tracks off the album in half a year.

 

Your thoughts please...

According to a post on CHC, Chasing Cars is the latest single to be deleted and it truly STINKS!!

 

It is a disgrace how record companies delete records when they want to...don't they want to see it do well?

James Blunt COULD well have had a million selling SINGLE with You're Beautiful, and who knows how many copies Chasing Cars might have ended up...if it stayed in the upper reaches of the chart and kept selling like it did for weeks to come, it may have got half a million. (maybe not, but it would have come close).

 

At least the download will still add to his tally, but it's RUINED its chart record now...and that is the really sad thing about it.

 

Oh and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy COULD have been a million seller by now if the physical copies were still available. Crazy is an apt word to describe this madness.

I think deleting singles is a really dopey idea, but it's more to do with the OCC and their stupid rules. If a song is still selling then it should be reflected on the chart.

 

It just makes things look really inaccurate. Look at Snow Patrol. The chart run of You're All I Have is 21 weeks on the chart and counting, while Chasing Cars will only get 10 weeks on the chart at most despite being a much bigger hit.

 

The same thing is true with Gnarls Barkley- Crazy only got 11 weeks on the chart because of deletion and was still in the top ten, while Smiley Faces is on 9 weeks now and is just leaving the top 40. Don't get me started on Nelly Furtado only getting 9 weeks on the chart for Maneater despite being at number one for 3 of those weeks.

 

Sick to death of all these big hits getting deleted and not getting a fair reflection of weeks on the chart. This whole "starred out" rule is, against some stiff competition, one of the worst rules the OCC has thought up.

Chasing Cars is going to be deleted? That is the worst idea I've heard all day so far. -_-

 

It is selling shedloads, why delete it? I wouldn't even be that surprised if it got to #1 in a few weeks. :rofl:

It's a stupid idea, if people like a song they won't not buy the artists other single just because their other single is in the top 10 too, it's stupid and wrecks chartruns :rolleyes:

I've mentioned before about the stupid record companies deleting singles.

 

Back in the 60s, 70s & 80s a single wouldn't get deleted for at least 2 years, even longer if it was selling. The record shops might not have had the singles in stock but they could order them.

 

Record companies are just dominieering idiots. Like they won't release a single (especially European and Latin singles) if they don't feel like it yet they release all that US trash.

 

As we are part of Europe we should get all the releases they do as over 80% are in English anyway.

It all boils down to the way Record Company bosses are telling us what we should buy and what we should NOT buy. Also when and when not. They're like a dictatorship.

 

You only have to look at the way they ignored releasing Eros Ramazotti & Anastacia - I Belong To You also Anyplace Anywhere Anytime by Nena & Kim Wilde, Narcotic by Liquido and Join Me by HIM even though they were all massive all over Europe.

 

Only a year late they have suddenly decided to release the World's best seller of 2005. La Tortura by Shakira. If this doesn't do that well it will be because, like me, many people will have bought it on import.

 

One Record Company recently stated that people shouldn't buy imports as it is damaging sales inthe UK.

 

I have one answer for them. RELEASE ALL THE SINGLES THEY RELEASE IN EUROPE (at the same time) AND GET THEM PROMOTED!!!

Why Chasing Cars ffs?????

 

Grrrr what a frickin shamble the chart is nowadays :rolleyes:

I personally don't think any song should be deleted whether I like it or not. They turn round and say single sales are on massive decline and they wonder why when nobody gives a damm about their poxy chart anymoreb ecause they've screwed it up with so many poxy rules and regulations.

thats a good point : record companies complain about not enough singles sales: but delete all the popular ones! how ridiculous

 

Snow Patrol haven't even got another song lined up! Snow patrol's climbs must be somewhat attributed to live performances, though...?

hmv today, rows of "this title has been deleted" where the single should have been, i was bemused, wonder if anyone was shocked if hoping to pick up a copy.

Its blatently to help album sales. If the single is no longer available there is more chance they will buy the album. Silly but I think that may be the reason

This is the one thing that REALLY winds me up at the moment with the charts.

 

James Blunt, Gnarls Barkley, Nelly Furtado, and now Snow Patrol?! All these could have been longer runners (James Blunt to 53 weeks even) and yet, they are gone before their time.

 

To quote old Queen Vicky, one is not amused. -_-

It seems as though the only way to stop record companies deleting singles is to introduce a rule that says something like: "Once a single has been physically deleted, the record company shall pay the OCC an amount equal to the amount gained from subsequent sales of the record".

 

If THAT doesn't stop them, nothing will!

They didn't delete Shakira, thank God! She wouldn't have become the biggest solo artist of the year otherwise.

Its up to the record companies if they delete a record though, Isnt it?

They shouldn't delete though! I get very pissed when they delete singles I love. It happened to "Maneater" and now "Chasing Cars"??? :(

Sugababes record co. apparently deleted Hole In The Head after it's first week!

 

And where the single should have been stocked had notices to say the album was available at no. .... in the album chart

 

Cheeky!!!!

But Snow Patrol's album has bounced back to #1 twice since CC came out its not as if it's fallen badly down the chart like 'Loose' did so Maneater was deleted to help push that back up.

 

It's just appalling especially on a song that many will see as a modern classic like 'You're Beautiful'. Its chart run has been amazing and it can onl keep on going if they'd let it -_-

 

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But Snow Patrol's album has bounced back to #1 twice since CC came out its not as if it's fallen badly down the chart like 'Loose' did so Maneater was deleted to help push that back up.

 

It's just appalling especially on a song that many will see as a modern classic like 'You're Beautiful'. Its chart run has been amazing and it can onl keep on going if they'd let it -_-

 

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I agree with everything you said, especially the thing about "Chasing Cars" being a modern rock classic :D

What makes the deletion of Chasing Cars so STUPID is that it's only just top 30 on physical sales. It's only downloads that are keeping it up so high.

yeh...that is stupid, they could just stop supplying adn "pretend to delete" and see it drop a little. doesn't every album dowload of theirs results in a sale for chasing cars, or is that not how it is done?