As per the title of the thread do you still get very excited for new chart music or music in general? I feel like I don't have as much patience as I used to a few years ago when it comes to new music that could potentially enter the charts. I used to always seek new music but now I let the music seek me instead and most of it doesn't do too great in the charts either. I'm sure there's a lot of songs in the top 40 that I haven't even heard in full and I feel like I can't really be bothered to listen properly to them either.

I do still have a great passion for the charts and listen to all of the songs in there, but I have to concede that the quality of the charts has been declining in the last couple of years.

I will always be excited for new music but the charts do not excite me at all anymore. I never listen because a Friday night is too inconvenient. They’re too slow, I’m not into most of the popular genres and They’re struggling to cope with streaming, all these constant rule changes. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to represent anymore.

Yes, I do but I like a lot less music than I used to do.

To be honest, I'm more interested and excited about new music than I have been in my life. I always get excited to listen to the big new releases each week.

I do still look forward to new chart music because there is always a few entries that enter that I wouldn't usually come across. Plus I pay more attention to positions 41-100 to see what I should be looking out for.

 

I also have been paying attention to the album charts which has diversified my tastes in music massively (e.g. Jon Hopkins, Bicep, Gregory Porter, Tonight Alive)

 

Overall I think my tastes have been refined. I dont tend to listen to what is popular much but I prefer to delve deeper and find songs that probably wouldn't enter the chart or chart very low only to disappear very quickly.

Edited September 9, 20186 yr by soundseekerz

There's plenty to be excited about in music right now, although my taste works quite differently to the chart a lot of the time - I tend to be getting over songs just as they're peaking officially :lol: there's lots of great music to enjoy outside of the chart too - in fact, only 6 songs in my personal chart top 40 have charted in the UK's top 40, the highest being Freya Ridings at #16 (the others are My My My!, Don't Leave Me Alone, Happier, God is a woman and Ocean).

We are living through the darkest time in pop chart history. It's never been this dark, this grim, with little or no light. It's soulless music, hateful music. Millions of Youtube hits for these chart songs just reinforces the point - we are living in dark chart times. Perhaps someone can shine some light and bring back some joyful chart music but I can't see that music returning. You have to look beyond the chart for real chart music.

Never been that into chart music beyond seeing how my favourite songs get on. However, my habits for finding new music have shifted recently... rather than actively seek out new music (via radio, playlists, new releases etc.) I have now started to let new music find me. This is coupled with much greater interest in older songs from my favourite genres and therefore new music doesn't have quite the same appeal it once did, especially given the stagnation of the UK urban scene over the past few months.

 

We are living through the darkest time in pop chart history. It's never been this dark, this grim, with little or no light. It's soulless music, hateful music. Millions of Youtube hits for these chart songs just reinforces the point - we are living in dark chart times. Perhaps someone can shine some light and bring back some joyful chart music but I can't see that music returning. You have to look beyond the chart for real chart music.

This Kobbar realness tho

 

I tend to agree, there's plenty of good music but I feel more disconnected from the charts than I ever have :mellow: what I miss is proper BOPS. everything's so mellow these days (bar a few, the new Sigala track being an example) and tailored to Hot Hits :'(

Well ofc. I'm interested in new music, I seek it out most days if we sometimes equate 'new' to 'music I haven't heard yet' (:kink:). I check the charts out of curiosity but there's very rarely anything that's properly a keeper. You shouldn't let what's in the charts define new music though, there is a lot out there that isn't recognised in the mainstream for any music taste! (Also why would buy into soulless, hateful and CRAP music in the charts? ;o)

more than anything I find the situation very frustrating, seeing how hard it is for inside/alt/rock acts to make the top 40 while it's almost too easy for urban acts :/

 

We are living through the darkest time in pop chart history. It's never been this dark, this grim, with little or no light. It's soulless music, hateful music. Millions of Youtube hits for these chart songs just reinforces the point - we are living in dark chart times. Perhaps someone can shine some light and bring back some joyful chart music but I can't see that music returning. You have to look beyond the chart for real chart music.

 

This

 

Pop brat bibber

Little Mix

Drake :blink: -_-

 

Just terrible

well yes of course, though I do find more of my fave songs of the moment are those that aren't chart hits.

 

a lot of chart hits completely pass me by, mostly the really uninspired/generic stuff (in both pop and rap music) but I also can't get into stuff like George Ezra's new songs or the musicals (though at least they give the chart some variety).

Albums yes, singles less so, although I am excited to hear the new Avril Lavigne song

Yes but i am finding im enjoying less and less of the new music. Sometimes i find myself trawling through 90's music to seek out songs i may have missed and often find some gems.

I've never followed the charts because I love all the music I follow because of what they represent culturally and socially in the country.

 

Though a lot of what I listen to coincides with chart hits mixed with my own favs!

I came to the conclusion that my days of following chart music were over years ago. It's strange that I can look at any chart from 1975 to 1985 and know just about every song in those charts but from about the early 00s I barely recall more than a quarter of the tracks in the charts and the amount of tracks I know gets less and less each year. I know it sounds cliched but a lot of the songs in the chart just merge into one for me so even when I get to hear them I just don't remember them.

 

That's not to say I don't listen to new music though. As a subscriber to Music Week I pick up on a number of new acts and tracks from the various regular features the magazine does and I look up the acts / tracks on Spotify. Most of them never get anywhere near the top 40 though. Indeed most of the featured "breaking" acts vanish without trace! I've just had a look through Music Week from 10 years ago today (issue dated 13/09/08) and wonder whatever happened to: Hockey, The Virgins, Bless Beats, Duncan Lloyd going solo, Peter and the Wolf, Rizz MC, Eugene McGuinness, Breezy, Portico Quartet, Andrea McEwan, Kaela, School Of Seven Bells, Los Campesinos, Psapp, Mugison, Marti, Five O'Clock Heroes, White Denim, Michelle Williams, The Datsuns, Late Of The Pier, Same Difference, Rhydian Roberts, George Sampson and a whole host more who either had fleeting success or simply never made it.

Edited September 9, 20186 yr by Robbie

The Datsuns :wub:

The Datsuns :wub:

I've checked and they are still going though they've not released anything for 4 yeears. Their peak time in the UK was 2002 to 2004 when they had a few minor hit singles and a semi successful album. In fact I'd forgotten all about them until I saw their name in that decade old issue of Music Week!