Posted April 25, 200817 yr anyone got an estimate on how many downloads it takes to get into the top 10, UK singles chart, first week... Or a place i can view some numbers week by week..ive checked the above and it was more on total numbers..i need a week by week number, if possible... Also anyone have info on how music is registered to the UK top 40 chart? Once music is on itunes does it automaticly count it for the UK chart?
April 25, 200817 yr anyone got an estimate on how many downloads it takes to get into the top 10, UK singles chart, first week... Or a place i can view some numbers week by week..ive checked the above and it was more on total numbers..i need a week by week number, if possible... Also anyone have info on how music is registered to the UK top 40 chart? Once music is on itunes does it automaticly count it for the UK chart?welcome to the board! If you look in the Chart Reference Library subforum (further up the main chart forum page, under UK Chart Chat Subforums) you'll find the weekly sales archives which list selected sales for each week. Some are sales for download only releases. To go top 10 takes about 13,000+, depending on the week. Songs can only be included on the chart once they have been registered with the chart compilers and after they have been allocated a unique reference number to track sales. It's usually normal for songs on iTunes to be chart eligible but not always the case - freebies don't count, for example. But the vast, vast majority of songs sold on iTunes are chart eligible. Edited April 25, 200817 yr by Robbie
April 25, 200817 yr Author was just wondering, how many times can you buy the same single from itunes form the same PC..And is it counted towards chart listing?
April 25, 200817 yr was just wondering, how many times can you buy the same single from itunes form the same PC..And is it counted towards chart listing?well, there's rules about multi-purchases and if those rules are triggered, suspect sales are removed from counting towards the chart. The chart compilers don't publish rules about how many times you can purchase a song and have it count towards the chart but that's simply as a security measure! I doubt it's the PC that's checked but rather the method of payment and perhaps the IP number. iTunes would have to record the MAC number of each computer and these can be spoofed. Credit cards are a lot harder to spoof, but even then there are other ways of purchasing songs (eg gift vouchers). The answer is, you'll never know so you could just be wasting your money... Edited April 25, 200817 yr by Robbie
April 25, 200817 yr was just wondering, how many times can you buy the same single from itunes form the same PC..And is it counted towards chart listing?the other thing about chart rules: it's possible to buy one copy of different versions of a song and there would be no problem about doing this. Each version of a song has its own catalog / reference number so if you download and buy the single version and the album version each will have its own number and that is two sales. If it is on, eg, Now 69, that too will have its own number and that would count as an extra sale too if that version was downloaded. Multiple purchasing rules are about multiple purchases of the exact same product, not of buying a copy of each version. In 2005, Hung Up by Madonna was available to download and buy in something like 12 different mixes and buying one of each mix was fine. It counted as 12 sales. Had someone bought 12 copies of just one of the mix es then that would be classed as multiple purchasing and the sales would be ignored for chart purposes.
Create an account or sign in to comment