Just a simple question, do you think the charts are becoming boring or interesting, I fail to see if they are interesting at the moment, for me they have become so boring, I've had enough of listening to old tracks constantly each week, listening to the chart show on a Sunday is becoming a chore, and the two eejits that don't know what's right and what's left. I know I'm moaning about them again, but I wish they do their homework before they open their mouths.

Yeah I completely agree! They're getting more boring by the week and more and more predictable (basically it'll soon just be the same as the iTunes chart!) :(

yeah, same old same old

I've got to agree, I've found it slightly boring.

 

I don't even like who they've got to do the chart - two idiots with egos bigger than Saturn. What the hell was wrong with JK and Joel, anyway? (And I never thought I see the time when I miss them doing the chart.)

Yeah they are dull, but I do enjoy still following them. I am less and less interested in top 40+ than I used to be though.

The charts are at the moment extrmly dull, the same songs are in there week in week out. I mean why is Apolgize still there?

The charts are still interesting, as they have become more unpredictable than before thanks to downloads, as people can buy what they want thanks to going to their PC and downloading what they want.

 

Whilst thanks to i-Tunes Top100+ you can see which tracks have momentum and which tracks don't.

 

How anyone can say the charts are boring after the current #1 single has a chart run of 7-5-8-4-1 is beyond me?

 

Also because i-tunes make the chart interesting because you can see how things are developing with singles climbing up the chart to reach their peak like the halycon days of the 1960s, 1970s & 1980s, it means I don't have to listen to those inept clueless egomanical amateurs who present the Radio 1 chart show on Sunday as I have a good idea what the chart is going to be on Sunday night on Friday.

 

Those of you who moan about songs hanging around the charts should not blame iTunes or the charts themselves, but blame the British Radio & Music TV stations for playing the same old same old tracks after 20+ weeks in the charts instead of dropping them from their playlists & the fact that their is no longer a Top of The Pops (destroyed by misuse and the clueless production values of Andi Peters (who is also part of the James Grant management agency clientele that includes Fearne Cotton & Reggie Yates!) & no CD:UK on a Saturday morning.

 

Whilst record companies are giving up on the physical single for the financial loss leader that it has now become.

Boring boring boring! I'm almost giving up on following the top40, its that stale!

The chart is interesting, the current chart show format is boring.

 

For those who find the chart boring, perhaps if you didn't follow the midweeks the chart would much more exciting on Sundays.

 

I'd say at the moment we're in times of change. Once everybody (artists, labels, download shops and customers) gets used to downloads being the norm, I think we'll see the charts improve and won't be as slow. Give it 2 years and I'm sure we'll see a difference.

boring, at the moment.

 

Perhaps when / if sales pick up things might be better. There's too many songs hanging around the top 40 for weeks on end and if sales pick up, especially of new songs, we might get a healthier turnover on the chart.

 

I didn't like the chart when turnover was high and the chart was fast, but it's now gone the other way. Songs are taking an eternity to drop off the top 40.

 

One way to tell that the chart as a whole (top 75) is stale is to look at this table at polyhex, it shows the average weeks on chart for a song on the full chart.

 

http://www.polyhex.com/music/singles/average.php

 

It's the highest it has ever been since the charts started in 1952, at almost 12 weeks per song on the top 75.

Edited April 24, 200817 yr by Robbie

I agree with Thisispop ^_^

I agree with Comply Or Die, it's intresting to see how tracks do now and it's unpredictable in my opinion. What is boring is hearing people on here moan about it all the time on a chart forum .... :/

Just because its a chart forum doesnt mean people need to like where the charts are heading...

boring atm cos songs are hanging around the chart for 1/2 a year :blink:

boring...

So would all of you who think the chart is boring go back to when we had 30 to 40+ #1s per year?

 

Where bands would promote their tracks for up to 6 weeks before release, then rush release the single at first week discounted costs (£1.99 CD single), before plummeting down the charts in the following weeks as the single was priced at £3.99, before they slashed the price when it was about to or had fallen out of the Top 75 to 99p to sell off the copies that remained unsold.

 

Looking back 10 years ago I guess those of you would rather see a typical chart run like:

 

Madonna's Frozen: 1-3-5-6-13-13-18-22-34-44-60-64-68-X

 

When on a regular basis half the Top 10 would be new entries, and there would rarely be half a dozen climbers in the Top 40 chart, where well over half the Top 75 were fallers. Now that was boring.

So would all of you who think the chart is boring go back to when we had 30 to 40+ #1s per year?

 

Where bands would promote their tracks for up to 6 weeks before release, then rush release the single at first week discounted costs (£1.99 CD single), before plummeting down the charts in the following weeks as the single was priced at £3.99, before they slashed the price when it was about to or had fallen out of the Top 75 to 99p to sell off the copies that remained unsold.

 

Looking back 10 years ago I guess those of you would rather see a typical chart run like:

 

Madonna's Frozen: 1-3-5-6-13-13-18-22-34-44-60-64-68-X

 

When on a regular basis half the Top 10 would be new entries, and there would rarely be half a dozen climbers in the Top 40 chart, where well over half the Top 75 were fallers. Now that was boring.

I hated the charts when they were so quick (and so many number 1s), but now they have swung to the other end of the spectrum.

 

I would hope in a couple of years we may get to a happy medium :D

I hated the charts when they were so quick (and so many number 1s), but now they have swung to the other end of the spectrum.

 

I would hope in a couple of years we may get to a happy medium :D

 

i agree with you entirely!!!

Personally, I think the singles chart is incredibly boring at the moment.

 

Having said this, single sales have increased significantly since the introduction of downloads. As mentioned, I am sick of seeing songs by aacts who have been in the charts for more than three montsh, constantly sticking around. I think that the stability of the charts is a good thing, however, I miss the old days, say early 2000's when a clearout week happened every now and again.

 

More and more, that charts this year in particular are frustrating, the fact that acts like Last Shadow Puppets and other to name one example, that the download does well for a week, than by the physical the sales drop and their chart position is lower, yet for some reasons it is the likes of Nickleback and Scouting For girls, Timbaland, Usher, Take That, that constantly hover around the top 40 for week upon week, and the number of new entries entering the top 40 week on week is just downright depressing.

 

In my opinion, the OCC need to relaunch the physical single, somehow altering the way in which people are able to get hold of music, I hate the 24 hour music channels aswell because the same old songs get played to death, the same old songs people see on these channels are the ones that keep floating around in the charts. I can;t even buy a decent physical single from my local HMV anymore because the choice is rediculously poor so now I've had to resort to legally downloading my music.

 

I much prefer the days when the charts were more unpredictable, I want to see the weeks where there are 14 new entries again, but I think I prefered the 'download entry 1 week proir to physical rule myself. (i dont think any of that makes sense but hey!!!!)

It's not quite as black and white as that for me, I'm always interested in the chart and to see how my favourite acts/songs do... I'm just SO tired of the same old songs clogging up the charts for months on end and the sheep-like mentality of most of the UK music buying public.