Posted March 3Mar 3 I think it closed down in maybe 2015. It had artist pages with all their entire discography listened and their entire chart runs plus a line graph to show it's performance in the top 100. It was so satisfying for chart nerds like me and I hate there's nothing really like it these days..
March 3Mar 3 What was the other website that was the only place you could find full historic charts online before the OCC got their act together? Edited March 3Mar 3 by chartjack2
March 3Mar 3 That was chartstats - it got shut down by the OCC presumably because they were just about to launch their site revamp which has the same functionality (or at least attempts to).
March 3Mar 3 I loved the little graphs, I don’t know why but there was something so satisfying about them and they would visually stay in my head when I thought about chart runs. I think they tracked the first 11 weeks in the Top 40 and in my mind I considered it an underperformance if the full graph wasn’t complete.This is of course in the pre-streaming era where songs didn’t stick around for months on end and most albums could even achieve 11 weeks in the Top 40.
March 5Mar 5 It lives on at the Wayback Machine!https://web.archive.org/web/20120918204205/http://www.chartstats.com/As does the version of the website after the OCC requested that all chart data be removedhttps://web.archive.org/web/20130115201722/http://www.chartstats.com/Many of the links in the archive of the website work. Edited March 5Mar 5 by Robbie
March 5Mar 5 Chartstats was great, but it's not surprising that the OCC forced it to close when they were ready to launch their own equivalent site. It's just a shame the OCC didn't work with the owner of that site to make sure their archive was better.
March 5Mar 5 In other news... who is still funding this website to remain active some 15 years since it was last ever updated...https://everyhit.com
March 6Mar 6 15 hours ago, awardinary said:In other news... who is still funding this website to remain active some 15 years since it was last ever updated...https://everyhit.comThe website is owned by Dean Jackson, who presents a music show on some BBC local radio stations on a Saturday evening. He did once say that he intended to update the website though that was more than a decade ago. I'm assuming that it's not too expensive to continue to pay the hosting fees and website registration costs.
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