February 6, 200817 yr How 'good' can they be, if they can't see enough to go top 40? I assume what you meant is 'a lot of songs I like are missing the top 40'... But going by your logic any song that makes top 40 is good. Soulja Boy must be a musical genius because he's had a number 2 :lol: Yes songs I like have flopped but so have songs I don't like, but I know a lot of other people do. I don't know anyone who thinks Soulja Boy's song is good.
February 6, 200817 yr To say if a song doesn't make the top 40 because it isn't good enough is ridiculous. From my current personal chart top 10 only four have made the UK top 40 but that doesn't mean that the other 6 aren't good enough to make it. It's just that they're generally by smaller acts on smaller labels who can't afford the promotion and aren't making music to be played all over daytime Radio 1. But that doesn't make it bad.
February 6, 200817 yr I would have to say yes and no to this. Yes - When you look at the iTunes chart like I do, you start getting a feeling about what's going to be in the Top 10. No - What A Wonderful World wasn't on iTunes, yet that made No1. I also never would have thought the Spice Girls would fail to make the Top 10 or that Leona Lewis would drop out of the Top 10 from No3.
February 6, 200817 yr They don't sell because radio etc. don't pick them up. It's a matter that one poster brought up the other week too. Most of the songs I like seem to miss the entire top 75 these days. IMO the charts are unbelievably stale at the moment. I hope it's just a warming up period and the charts will speed up soon... I didn't even listen to the chart show last week because I knew I would be hearing c**p like Hey There Dullilah, Umbrella, She's So Lovely for what seems like the 500th week. If it carries on like this then soon I'll probably just be checking the top 75 on here after 7pm every week. However, I guess the charts have become somewhat unpredictable in the way that some songs do worse/better than people were expecting, such as Hot Chip, Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, Melua/Cassidy etc. However, with iTunes and midweeks you always know what's going to be where by Sunday anyway. spot on, bossa. it is definitely three hours better spent fishing for new music around. i NEVER tune in for the chart show, but i regularly scan through this chart thread every sunday evening. it's a much more interesting format than anything the BBC can ever come up with and it surely makes the prospect of the top40 bearable...actually, quite fun to read. big cheers to everyone here for that :) alas, it will be interesting to see how the public's attitude towards download is going to develop in the next months. Edited February 6, 200817 yr by Twisted Tender
February 6, 200817 yr spot on, bossa. it is definitely three hours better spent fishing for new music around. i NEVER tune in for the chart show, but i regularly scan through this chart thread every sunday evening. it's a much more interesting format than anything the BBC can ever come up with and it surely makes the prospect of the top40 bearable...actually, quite fun to read. big cheers to everyone here for that :) alas, it will be interesting to see how the public's attitude towards download is going to develop in the next months. Glad to hear you enjoy our chart thread :D
February 7, 200817 yr Wet Wet Wet top 10 this week. Nickelback a potential #1. Damn those predictable charts!
February 8, 200817 yr Top Of The Pops used have have a big influence on the singles chart, which I kinda miss these days. There's no one programme on TV these days, as far as I know which has even half as much influence on chart positions. That used to shake up the chart a bit. Special events like Xmas, The Brits, etc, no doubt will bring some chart surprises, but their sporadic.
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