December 31, 20186 yr I’m sure the last few years they’ve posted the End of Year charts on New Years Eve.
December 31, 20186 yr Author I'm thinking we won't get the Y/E charts from the OCC until Friday then and that they'll include this week (which means the singles one will be different to the one R1 announced :drama:) Nothing new there then... :rolleyes:
December 31, 20186 yr Author Why would that matter? The chart date, not the chart day, is the relevant point It wouldn't matter to most, no - but I'd like to know whether to close out my 2018 spreadsheets this week or next, as it's a fiddly process. Edited December 31, 20186 yr by vidcapper
December 31, 20186 yr It wouldn't matter to most, no - but I'd like to know whether to close out my 2018 spreadsheets this week or next, as it's a fiddly process. Well I suppose we'll know by Friday but going by history then the chart last Friday was the last of 2018, that's what I meant. :dance:
December 31, 20186 yr Well done George Ezra - best selling artists album, didn't think that would happen this time last year!!
January 1, 20196 yr It wouldn't matter to most, no - but I'd like to know whether to close out my 2018 spreadsheets this week or next, as it's a fiddly process. Technically this is Week 1, so I don't know where you are getting Week 53 from, this is why I'm thinking that's it for 2018. I'm thinking those last 4 days belong into 2019, I don't know how OCC accommodate for the chart since its sales are from Friday to Thursday. Anyway we see what OCC come up with when the charts get updated. MW site has the midweeks database set up as Week 1 for this week, not really that difficult to grasp :D edits...
January 1, 20196 yr By my reckoning, the next occasion there'll be a "Week 53" situation is 2020 (25th December 2020 to 31st December 2020 being Week 53, with the chart revealed on 1st January 2021).
January 1, 20196 yr Author By my reckoning, the next occasion there'll be a "Week 53" situation is 2020 (25th December 2020 to 31st December 2020 being Week 53, with the chart revealed on 1st January 2021). That's what I thought...
January 1, 20196 yr By my reckoning, the next occasion there'll be a "Week 53" situation is 2020 (25th December 2020 to 31st December 2020 being Week 53, with the chart revealed on 1st January 2021). Always happens on a leap year with the extra day, as that is week 53.
January 1, 20196 yr My goodness, sales really are atrocious aren’t they. :o They really are. Albums just aren’t important to people anymore. They still are to me but I think artists will start marketing themselves with just singles sooner rather than later.
January 1, 20196 yr That's true - I mean we had 5 singles from the 1975 for example and then the album in a busy sales week symbolising the changing record label tactics!
January 1, 20196 yr People have been saying that every year since like 2007. It doesn't translate to numbers being as high as in the pure sales era but the advent of streaming has actually made the concept of an album more important again I think, artists want people to put on what's basically just a playlist of songs by that artist since they get paid per song stream. See Drake releasing an album that he literally referred to as a 'playlist' (there's not really much of a distinction any more). What might become more common I think is the strategy The Chainsmokers have used for their current 'album' era, where they've just basically been drip feeding a series of singles and gradually building up an album/playlist from those. (Not that this has brought them much commercial success but someone will do it more successfully eventually probably)
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