https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj2l4e1d09o

 

An interesting article from the Beeb about old songs getting revived. Any thoughts?

I had a read through this last night and it's mostly a pretty well written article although I notice that it's parroting a blatantly wrong statistic from another article The Guardian did recently about TikTok hits, claiming that Blood Orange's 'Champagne Coast' became a top 20 hit last year when it has in fact still never charted anywhere. The Guardian must have somehow conflated the overall chart with the independent singles chart and the BBC have just repeated that without fact checking clearly! (The paragraph about 'I Wanna Be Yours' is a little misleading/dubious as well as it was never a single and its one week in the chart wasn't until 2022 but I'll give them a bit more leeway on that one x).

 

edit: oh and it says 'Cruel Summer' got to #1 lol but maybe they got it confused with the USA xx

I had a read through this last night and it's mostly a pretty well written article although I notice that it's parroting a blatantly wrong statistic from another article The Guardian did recently about TikTok hits, claiming that Blood Orange's 'Champagne Coast' became a top 20 hit last year when it has in fact still never charted anywhere. The Guardian must have somehow conflated the overall chart with the independent singles chart and the BBC have just repeated that without fact checking clearly! (The paragraph about 'I Wanna Be Yours' is a little misleading/dubious as well as it was never a single and its one week in the chart wasn't until 2022 but I'll give them a bit more leeway on that one x).

 

edit: oh and it says 'Cruel Summer' got to #1 lol but maybe they got it confused with the USA xx

 

I'll agree there's a lot of churnalism going on here, I think whoever wrote this is getting their info from another publisher and not doing the proper fact checking. The songs they've chosen to write about were pretty good choices but I would've said "lovely" hasn't had a huge resurgence, it's always been big just never doing enough for top 40.