If you thought the inclusion of stickers was a daft reason to make an album non chart eligible, read why Imogen Heap's latest single has been made non-chart eligible, The words of Immi herself from a recent interview:

 

When's your new single 'Headlock' coming out?

"16th October. The packaging is so beautiful. This guy in Texas got in touch with me a while back that wanted to do some artwork, but unfortunately it's so beautiful that it's not chart eligible because the packaging's too pretty and it's got too many folds. Just ridiculous. So it's either like, destroy the artwork and make it chart eligible or keep the artwork. So that's what I've done. I'm keeping the artwork. There's great detail on it."

 

So the single isn't chart eligible as the artwork has too many folds. I know it wouldn't ave charted highly but the reasoning is just ridiculous. I'm so annoyed. The rules need to be changed....

 

:manson:

didnt someone do a hand printed sleeve once that was defined as all being different formats?

what a load of b*ll*cks

Told ya - the chart's ****ed up. I mean UGH. I'm just disgusted.

omg how sad is that :lol:

O dear, to many folds.

Well done Imogen for keeping it with the nice artwork.

I love Imogen. Stupid idiots, I'm glad she kept the artwork.

The OCC have obviously been overdoing it on the illegal substances. :manson:

Too many folds, that's a new one on me, how stupid can you get

Too much time on their hands to bother about such pettiness. -_-

Singles with STICKERS on the cover arent eligble?? Are you serious?

 

That must be pretty new. Call me a geek but I like stickers on CDs

Singles with STICKERS on the cover arent eligble?? Are you serious?

 

That must be pretty new. Call me a geek but I like stickers on CDs

You miss the point off the thread. The Beck CD came with stickers last week INSIDE and wasnt chart eligible. But that digresses from the point of the thread.

 

The single is not chart eligible as it has "too many folds".

How many stupid rules are the OCC going to come up with?

The idea of these rules is to stop artists giving away gifts that are worth more than the CD.

 

But this is just silly.

That's stupid. They are obviously drunk when they come up with these rules. How would that give her an advantage?

:huh: ... They are really losing their minds...

I don't understand how we can get chart ineligible singles. If a CD is other than the plastic case with a sheet of paper and a CD, surely someone somewhere in the record company must realise that it's not 'normal' and question whether it's still eligible. It's not as though singles or covers are thrown together the week before release.

 

It always seems to occur that the single is found to be ineligible once it's available in the shops, rather than a bit of work beforehand.

 

(Unless of course some record bod is saying to the artist - "Don't worry, we're sure it's eligible!")