June 22, 20178 yr Author I understand what you are saying but it has had blanket coverage. Over 10 million people must've seen the video yesterday on ITV1 alone. I should imagine it will get TV coverage tomorrow, probably on the evening news.
June 22, 20178 yr I understand what you are saying but it has had blanket coverage. Over 10 million people must've seen the video yesterday on ITV1 alone. No chance. The ratings for Emmerdale and Corrie (which the video was sandwiched between): 19:00 Emmerdale - 5.65m (36.3%) 19:30 Coronation Street - 6.81m (39.7%) Not even close to 10m. Still significant as we saw in the Kworb update that followed but let's not exaggerate! :P
June 22, 20178 yr No chance. The ratings for Emmerdale and Corrie (which the video was sandwiched between): 19:00 Emmerdale - 5.65m (36.3%) 19:30 Coronation Street - 6.81m (39.7%) Not even close to 10m. Still significant as we saw in the Kworb update that followed but let's not exaggerate! :P According to this tweet: @overnights.tv: 6.0m/38% watched #ArtistsforGrenfell yesterday on ITV So ~6m viewers. The Band Aid 30 video had 9.5m viewers watching but that was during X Factor. Still, 6m is a decent audience which has no doubt helped.
June 22, 20178 yr Obviously an audience of 6m is great publicity, but 6m just seems like Corrie's audience waiting for Corrie to start. Would have expected a higher rating tbh.
June 22, 20178 yr Anyone with iTunes or Spotify know it exists. It's all over the media. Cowell pulled out all the stops and payola.
June 22, 20178 yr Obviously an audience of 6m is great publicity, but 6m just seems like Corrie's audience waiting for Corrie to start. Would have expected a higher rating tbh. Considering it was going to be on YouTube immediately, and people knew that, I don't see why many people would tune in especially to see a video they could see at any point anyway. The reason it was scheduled there is to get the audience who were already watching TV, some of whom may not have heard about the single.
June 22, 20178 yr Considering it was going to be on YouTube immediately, and people knew that, I don't see why many people would tune in especially to see a video they could see at any point anyway. The reason it was scheduled there is to get the audience who were already watching TV, some of whom may not have heard about the single. Yeah this
June 22, 20178 yr Amazed at how well this has done when the selling power of charity singles seemed to be dying, glad to see it's set for an easy #1.
June 22, 20178 yr Author Hope we get an update today. It would be bloody typical not to get one :lol: Just checked, no we don't, no fluffy white flying dickie birds :( I did say last night, regular updates are not always guaranteed. :P
June 22, 20178 yr I understand what you are saying but it has had blanket coverage. Over 10 million people must've seen the video yesterday on ITV1 alone. That still leaves about 60 million in the U.K. that haven't seen it though - my point is I think there will be enough steam with further media coverage for it to spend 2 weeks at the top especially after it hits #1 on Friday and gets radio plays and additional media coverage. The fact it was rush released will mean that some people will still be unaware of its exsistance.
June 22, 20178 yr Just realised it was Band Aid 30 that was being referred to, I was thinking of the original. The 1984 original was premiered video wise before totps on a Friday evening as totps wasn't allowed to show songs/videos that weren't released/in the chart yet!
June 22, 20178 yr The little white birds didn't sing today but everyone knows who's going to be number 1 tomorrow. Well, the OCC shouldn't have said anything, I wanted a little bit of drama melodrama tomorrow. :(
June 22, 20178 yr The 1984 original was premiered video wise before totps on a Friday evening as totps wasn't allowed to show songs/videos that weren't released/in the chart yet! People watching the TOTP repeats will have noticed that they frequently played songs not in the charts. It was probably a case of the video not being available when the programme was recorded.
June 22, 20178 yr People watching the TOTP repeats will have noticed that they frequently played songs not in the charts. It was probably a case of the video not being available when the programme was recorded. In the Seventies they did but I think they'd stopped by 1984, though they'd occasionally show a song charting outside the Top 40. Still, no reason they couldn't have made an exception if they'd wanted to.
June 22, 20178 yr My source for that fact was the Story of 1984 from last week which specifically mentioned the videos first play BEFORE totps started in early December that year.
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