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Interesting, acts like Snow Patrol with Chasing Cars for instance will be still in the top 40, a lot of new music will get pushed towards the lower end of the chart.

 

Just have to wait and see how it pans out, a week on Sunday.

doesn't this mean that acts like spice girls could chart in the top 40 if they suddenly have a surge of downloaders? :lol:

doesn't this mean that acts like spice girls could chart in the top 40 if they suddenly have a surge of downloaders? :lol:

 

Yes. I think.

 

It might not be as dramatic a change as people make out though. Remember when the download chart started someone said "In theory a 1960s album track by Bob Dylan could be number one on the download chart". Which is true in theory, but didn't happen. Also, remember the song that was number one when downloads were allowed to be included in the chart was.... Tony Christie and Peter Kay- Amarillo, on mostly physical sales.

i cant wait for this to come into practice as the charts will so so unpredictive and anyone can chart

Oh what's this I hear about b-sides and album tracks being allowed to chart as well? :unsure:

Oh what's this I hear about b-sides and album tracks being allowed to chart as well? :unsure:

 

*Anything* could chart, theoretically - but in practice, only recently released singles are likely to reach the top 40. A popular oldie boosted by TV exposure might also make it, but only briefly.

 

'Golden oldies' set for chart comeback

Virgin Net

 

Downloaded album tracks and "golden oldies" will be eligible for the singles chart under new rules coming into force next week.

 

Until now, downloads have been included in the Official Singles Chart only if physical copies of the song are available in shops.

 

But from January 1 the rules will be changed so that all download sales can be counted - meaning any song available on the internet could become the next number one single.

 

Chart experts predict artists whose old songs are featured in adverts or films are likely to find themselves heading back up the charts.

 

The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) decided to change the rules in response to the huge increase in the number of music downloads.

 

Downloads have doubled the size of the UK singles market from 32.3 million in 2004 to 65.1 million in the first 51 weeks of this year.

 

X Factor winner Leona Lewis recently set a record for the fastest-selling UK download after her debut single 'A Moment Like This' shifted 50,000 copies in its first half hour of release.

 

OCC director Steve Redmond said: "For the past 54 years, a single was a track selected by a record company to be pressed on plastic and distributed to stores on a particular date.

 

"From now on a single can be any track currently available as a download - even an album track or a golden oldie. This new ruling puts the consumer in the driving seat. Literally any track can be a hit - as long as it sells enough."

 

*Anything* could chart, theoretically - but in practice, only recently released singles are likely to reach the top 40. A popular oldie boosted by TV exposure might also make it, but only briefly.

 

so i suppose the lower reaches of the chart would have seen loads of records by the cure this year, as they seemed to have a track on loads of film trailers

Scary...

 

It's definitly great for songs like "Chasing cars", but I'm sure there will be some fanbases that will make some old tracks back in the top10... what if McFly send a mail to their fans asking to download every of their previous singles just to make a 100% Mcfly top10? lmfao :lol:

Or what if Simon decides to make digitally available all the performances of the X-Factor winner just after the finale? It could be make a 100% X-Factor winner Xmas top10 :lol:

I dont like the idea of album tracks charting. The chart will look messy

Scary...

 

It's definitly great for songs like "Chasing cars", but I'm sure there will be some fanbases that will make some old tracks back in the top10... what if McFly send a mail to their fans asking to download every of their previous singles just to make a 100% Mcfly top10? lmfao :lol:

 

This gives me an idea..................... (not mcfly btw)

So let's say someone accidentially

bought let's say a song more than once, let's say about 100 times

could that song chart?

Or if that person got a whole lot of people to buy this song, it could chart?

So let's say someone accidentially

bought let's say a song more than once, let's say about 100 times

could that song chart?

Or if that person got a whole lot of people to buy this song, it could chart?

Yes I presume so. The same way that if you went into a record shop and accidentally bought the single 100 times, it would probably chart :P

Yes I presume so. The same way that if you went into a record shop and accidentally bought the single 100 times, it would probably chart

 

But you'd have 2 que 100 times

before ti would count

But you'd have 2 que 100 times

before ti would count

But it would still count. At the end of the day, no matter how you buy them the charts can be manipulated. It's just as easy for me to tell all my MSN contacts to download a song as it is to ask my friends to go out and buy a specific single next time they're in town.

 

But I do see what you're trying to get at ^_^

I think that both tomorrows singles chart as well as next weeks will be both very active and very interesting.

Well, normally people wishes always the best to the new year to come :o In this camse, I guss it will be the end of a great UK Countdown :wacko: With all the fan-clubs, I guess there will be a wacko countdown :mellow:

By the way, are we gonna need a release schedule in the next months, view that the physical releases don't care anymore for a countdown? :huh: xox.

I don't reckon the rules will stay for long. All you need is an internet/Scott Mills/Sun campaign to download a flop 1994 dance song and it can get to number one.

 

Pathetic.

One thing for certain is that this really will make the charts much more interesting and unpredictable than ever before however, allowing B Sides and Album Tracks to chart is in my opinion absoloutely mad. For example the superb third single from Lemars third album titled 'The Truth About Love' is 'Tick Tock' which in my opinion is one of Lemar's finest and most accoustic songs ever however, this means that the moment it is listed on radio playlists and music video channels, which is usually four to five weeks before a songs release, then it could chart way before it is technicially released and could perhaps be falling out of the chart when it is actually released. Please correct me if I am wrong however, this to me just seems absolutely mad and it is a certainty that these new chart rules will cause chaos and mad havac.