I only follow the charts on Buzzjack's Friday Chart Show thread now.

The full chart is a Top 100, in terms of this one with the ACR and SCR rules. Why not change R1 show to be the Top 100, and you play the NEW and RE, biggest climber, one of the top 3 longest runners (rotates each week for variety), the climbers of more than 5 places and the Top 10 full. That's about 30-40 songs per week and so you can do a full 3 hours show. Moving to the Top 100 gives a larger base to draw from to reduce repetition (whether you agree with Top 10 in full or other elements of the above at all).

I would guess that the BBC would have to pay more to be able to use the full top 100. If they did use it and followed your suggested format, we'd get to hear Mr Brightside every few weeks :dance:

not that I bother with listening to the chart show anymore but they really ought to use the positions outside the top 40 for some more variety given the very slow turnover in the upper end. ie use the first half hour for new entries and climbers that haven’t yet reached the top 40.

The full chart is a Top 100, in terms of this one with the ACR and SCR rules. Why not change R1 show to be the Top 100, and you play the NEW and RE, biggest climber, one of the top 3 longest runners (rotates each week for variety), the climbers of more than 5 places and the Top 10 full. That's about 30-40 songs per week and so you can do a full 3 hours show. Moving to the Top 100 gives a larger base to draw from to reduce repetition (whether you agree with Top 10 in full or other elements of the above at all).

^ THIS 100%. Especially given 41-100 is where most of the actually interesting hits land. Maybe it'd be awkward to try and present but it's the only realistic way to salvage things

 

Maybe they can play something from the high-charting new albums from a given week! Just imagine them spinning Black Country New Road and scaring off all their listeners, it would've been glorious :w00t:

 

^ THIS 100%. Especially given 41-100 is where most of the actually interesting hits land. Maybe it'd be awkward to try and present but it's the only realistic way to salvage things

 

Maybe they can play something from the high-charting new albums from a given week! Just imagine them spinning Black Country New Road and scaring off all their listeners, it would've been glorious :w00t:

 

this might be one of the few things that'd get me to care about any 'chart show' again. New releases, big climbers, interesting movers. Songs that might not get much radio play otherwise especially.

Apart from for nostalgia reasons I don't really know why anyone listens to the chart show any more. When you can hear the songs on the chart whenever you want on Spotify or YouTube. Make a playlist of the chart include the songs you like etc.

^well, I listen cos it's the first time the chart is revealed lol

Exactly, and I like the excitement of each song being announced 1 by 1 rather than just scrolling through a website and seeing the whole top 100 at once.

Apart from for nostalgia reasons I don't really know why anyone listens to the chart show any more. When you can hear the songs on the chart whenever you want on Spotify or YouTube. Make a playlist of the chart include the songs you like etc.

 

You might as well ask why listen to the radio?

Exactly, and I like the excitement of each song being announced 1 by 1 rather than just scrolling through a website and seeing the whole top 100 at once.

 

Is it still exciting though? Perhaps for some but not for me anymore and hasn’t been for many years, pretty much since streaming came in. And definitely since things like ACR and 3 track rules came in. I’m not sure who the chart is even supposed to be for anymore let alone wh6 anyone would want to listen weekly. Besides, Friday isn’t an evening I tend to sit down and listen to the radio either.

 

It’s gone too far down a rabbit hole now to really do anything about it.

Audience figures aren't an issue when it's the most listened-to chart on the radio anyway, I suppose the question is how many of those people would be listening regardless of what show was on at that time, but I doubt it particularly matters to Radio 1. Scott does a great job of hyping the show up as the "40 biggest songs at the moment" (chart fans know it's technically not quite true but still) so that anyone who happens to be listening to Radio 1 can easily get involved. I expect few take it seriously, but it's accessible and Scott makes it entertaining between the songs that aren't exactly miles away from what Radio 1 would be playing anyway.

You might as well ask why listen to the radio?

I don't very much. I used to back in a time before the internet. I always would have a blank cassette in to record the top 40 so I could listen to all the current hits. I didn't have alot of money so couldn't always afford to buy alot of records, Now albums were good but sometimes you had to wait months for them to come out.

If streaming was available then I don't think I would have listened to the radio as much as I never was keen on all the DJ talk.

1990s 2000s lot compilation album for chart hits

 

Now music

The hits album

Top of pops

Smash hits

Name few

 

Now only now music left

Edited March 6, 20223 yr by Dj Cheeky Magpie

I've not listened to the chart show (or Radio 1 for that matter) for around 20 years now. Whether I listened to it or not depended on what else I was doing at the time. Back then though it was the only place to hear every song in the Top 40.

 

I recall on numerous occasions looking at the Top 40 on Teletext and seeing tunes that never appeared on the radio, the music channels or Top of the Pops and therefore having no idea what they sounded like. Nowadays the Top 40 has already been revealed by the time I get home from work on a Friday. All I need to do is listen to the new entries on YouTube and more often than not decide I never want to hear said tune again.

Audience figures aren't an issue when it's the most listened-to chart on the radio anyway, I suppose the question is how many of those people would be listening regardless of what show was on at that time, but I doubt it particularly matters to Radio 1. Scott does a great job of hyping the show up as the "40 biggest songs at the moment" (chart fans know it's technically not quite true but still) so that anyone who happens to be listening to Radio 1 can easily get involved. I expect few take it seriously, but it's accessible and Scott makes it entertaining between the songs that aren't exactly miles away from what Radio 1 would be playing anyway.

 

I think it gets about 1.5 million listeners, and I suppose most of those would've been listening anyway, yes.

 

But it's quite telling that they scrapped the Sunday show and then later on decided they needed to do the midweek chart from 6pm in order to compete with Big Top 40. So clearly Radio 1 see there being some value to continuing with the chart. I think it's safe, whoever presents it.

1990s 2000s lot compilation album for chart hits

 

Now music

The hits album

Top of pops

Smash hits

Name few

 

Now only now music left

 

True, although it would be completely redundant to have competitive hits compilations now as firstly, even the sales for Now have fallen through the floor, and secondly, Now gets 80% of the hits anyway these days, and the ones it doesn't are probably due to licensing, so there's nothing left for the other compilations to pick up.

 

When the chart was more dynamic there were many more hits to pool these albums from in the first place, and also record labels tended to be on one compilation series or another, Sony/BMG artists were on the Hits series for example and rarely on Now, so you had to get both Now and Hits if you wanted to cover all bases.

 

Interestingly, in Germany there are still competiting hits compilations (Bravo Hits/The Dome), but they often cover much of the same ground and are both packed full of songs that never charted.

Edited March 7, 20223 yr by gooddelta