Posted October 28, 200816 yr If you follow any of the Sunday chart threads, you may have seen me mention a project I've been working on, and I'm now ready to reveal all :) Over the last ten weeks, I've been working on a new form of chart. I was wondering, what would the UK chart look like if it was based on sales AND airplay? There is the Hit 40 UK of course, but that is based only on airplay on stations it airs on, and also it uses the same top 3 as the UK chart. What I've found out is that the difference between the Hit 40 UK and the full sales and airplay chart is pretty big, and that the top 3 can often vary. Currently this chart isn't *that* scentific, as it's based on a points system, 50 points for number one, 49 points for number two, right down to 1 point for number 50. This is down to the fact that I don't currently have access to the raw sales data and the audience impressions data for the airplay. Also the ratio is currently 50% sales, 50% airplay, largely because i'm not sure of how to weight it. I intended originally to go for the Billboard Hot 100 methodology but I couldn't find a good enough explanation of it. Does anyone have one? Or any suggestion of of a better chart compilation method? Anyway, without further ado, here's this week's UK Bullboard Chart. This week Change Peak Wks Artist Title 1 20 1x1 5 GIRLS ALOUD The Promise 2 1 2x1 6 PINK So What 3 15 3 4 RAZORLIGHT Wire To Wire 4 2 2 8 NE-YO Miss Independent 5 1 4 8 Jennifer HUDSON Spotlight 6 1 1x1 9 SUGABABES Girls 7 4 3 6 SNOW PATROL Take Back The City 8 1 7 9 KINGS OF LEON Sex On FIre 9 11 9 2 SATURDAYS, The Up 10 1 9 5 Leon JACKSON Don't Call This Love 11 11 1 GURU JOSH PROJECT Infinity 2008 12 6 2* 10 RIHANNA Disturbia 13 5 6x1* 10 Katy PERRY I Kissed A Girl 14 3 8 7 KAISER CHIEFS Never Miss A Beat 15 1 2* 10 SCRIPT, The The Man Who Can't Be Moved 16 12 16 5 Kanye WEST Love Lockdown 17 3 10 MADCON Beggin 18 3 3 10 James MORRISON You Make It Real 19 15 19 3 Jordin SPARKS Tattoo 20 22 20 2 Katy PERRY Hot N Cold 21 17 21 3 KEANE The Lovers Are Losing 22 3 22 5 Leona LEWIS Forgive Me 23 3 23 2 SASH! Feat. STUNT Raindrops (Encore Une Fois) 24 6 24 2 TAKE THAT Greatest Day 25 11 14 2 Geraldine McQUEEN The Winner's Song 26 3 26 4 KILLERS, The Human 27 3 6* 10 Jordin SPARKS/C. BROWN No Air 28 7 28 2 BEYONCE If I Were A Boy 29 4 29 4 DIDO Don't Believe In Love 30 14 30 5 Jack WHITE & Alicia KEYS Another Way To Die 31 8 6 8 PUSSYCAT DOLLS When I Grow Up 32 1 15 8 GYM CLASS HEROES Cookie Jar 33 12 33 3 LEMAR If She Knew 34 24 5 7 BOYZONE Love You Anyway 35 23 5 7 IGLU & HARTLY In This City 36 14 22 4 MGMT Kids 37 37 1 FALL OUT BOY I Don't Care 38 8 12* 10 Gabriela CILMI Sweet About Me 39 1 10* 10 NE-YO Closer 40 4 24 4 PLATINUM Love Shy (Thinking About You) 41 41 1 Tom JONES If He Should Ever Leave You 42 1 5* 10 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida 43 43 1 COLDPLAY Lost! 44 5 14 7 KEANE Spiralling 45 45 1 DUFFY Rain On Your Parade 46 14 28 6 M.I.A. Paper Planes 47 10 18 7 BASSHUNTER Angel In The Night 48 48 1 KARDINAL OFFISHAL/AKON Dangerous 49 22 12 10 OASIS The Shock Of The Lightning 50 31 3 10 Will YOUNG Changes Nice climb for GA to number one this week! They should stay there next week too, unless the X Factor single picks up a whole bunch of airplay... If anyone wants chart runs for any song charted over the last ten weeks, let me know. I've also compiled an alternative version including TV airplay, let me knbow if you're interested in that. And I apologise if anyone thinks this is stupid or is bored silly by it too... Like I said anyway, it's only an experiment. Anyway, see you same time (or hopefully a little earlier) next week! Edited October 28, 200816 yr by TomKay
October 28, 200816 yr Thanks this is quite interesting. I was wondering how our chart would look if we used something similar to the USA. As for your non-mover dilemma the code is :right : (with no gap) and the reason some of your arrows aren't working is because there should be a space between the colon and the text.
October 28, 200816 yr Interesting to see the likes of Jordin Top 20 and Katy Perry only just scraping Top 20 when it's Top 10 :o
October 28, 200816 yr Author Interesting to see the likes of Jordin Top 20 and Katy Perry only just scraping Top 20 when it's Top 10 :o The simple reason is, Jordin's getting plenty of airplay, whereas radio hasn't really picked up on Hot N Cold yet, it's still playing I Kissed A Girl. Glad you guys liked my work. I've been a bit scared to post it to be honest! Would you like to see it each week from now on, or is once enough?
October 28, 200816 yr The simple reason is, Jordin's getting plenty of airplay, whereas radio hasn't really picked up on Hot N Cold yet, it's still playing I Kissed A Girl. Glad you guys liked my work. I've been a bit scared to post it to be honest! Would you like to see it each week from now on, or is once enough? I think it'd be good to see it every week :D Very interesting! :D
October 28, 200816 yr First I read Billboard and I was unsure, what has the Billboard chart doing in the UK Chart Chart. Bullboard :lol:
October 28, 200816 yr Thanks for doing this TomKay. Its very interesting to see how your chart differs from the Hit40 one. I'd love you to do it every week
October 28, 200816 yr I didn't think Leon was getting such good airplay :o Interesting read though I much perfer the official chart this is a great idea.
October 28, 200816 yr This is kind of like the USA charts. I would prefer this to our normal one. You should talk about this with the OOC! :lol:
October 28, 200816 yr Author Bullboard :lol: Interesting, I like the idea As in kind of like Billboard, but kind of like bulls**t :lol: Really glad you guys like it. I need to try and make myself a Bullboard avatar :) Forgot to say, the songs that are starred next to their peak may have gone higher (or in the case of Katy Perry, been number one for more than 6 weeks!) Here's a few interesting differences and stats from the last ten weeks of the chart: Cobie CAILLAT entered the chart with Bubbly for one week, peaking at #46 on 08/09/08 Glen CAMPBELL was in the first chart with Good Riddance at #39 on 25/08/08 and then dropped out (may have peaked higher) Mariah CAREY was in the first chart with I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time at #24 on 25/08/08 and then dropped out (may have peaked higher) Gabriela CILMI was in the first chart with Save The Lies (Good To Me) at #19 on 25/08/08 and then dropped out (may have peaked higher) DUFFY was in the first chart with Stepping Stone and peaked at #11 on 08/09/08, dropping out two weeks later The FEELING entered the chart with Join With Us at #24 on 08/09/08, peaked at this position and fell out two weeks later KINGS OF LEON have so far only peaked at #7 on 13/10/08 (and didn't move the following week) LITTLE JACKIE were in the first chart with The World Should Revolve Around Me, and peaked one week later at #11 on 01/09/08, then fell out two weeks later McFLY entered the chart with Lies on 01/09/08, and peaked at #6 on 22/09/08, dropping out three weeks later METALLICA entered the chart with The Day That Never Comes for one week, peaking at #29 on 01/09/08 NOAH AND THE WHALE were in the first chart with Five Years Time, peaking at #4 on 25/08/08, falling out five weeks later Daniel POWTER entered the chart with Next Plane Home on 01/09/08, peaking at #30 on 08/09/08 and falling out two weeks later SONNY J entered the chart with Can't Stop Moving on 01/09/08, peaking two weeks later at #28 and falling out the week after Sharleen SPITERI entered the chart with Stop I Don't Love You Anymore on 22/09/08, peaking the wek after at #30, and dropping out two weeks later SUGABABES entered the chart with Girls on 01/09/08, peaking at #1 for one week on 06/10/08 and is still in the chart (that should keep a few people happy!) TAKE THAT entered the chart with Rule The World at #30 on 22/09/08, dropped out the week after, and re-entering at #37 on 06/10/08, dropping out two weeks later Sandi THOM was in the first chart with Saturday Night, peaking at #35 on 25/08/08 and dropping out two weeks later Teddy THOMPSON was in the first chart with Good Riddance at #36 on 25/08/08 and then dropped out (may have peaked higher) The TING TINGS entered the chart with Be The One on 22/09/08, peaking at #13 on 20/10/08 and then dropping out the next week (!) Anthoney WRIGHT entered the chart with Reset To Zero at #42 on 22/09/08, and fell out the week after Interesting stuff I think :)
October 28, 200816 yr This is kind of like the USA charts. I would prefer this to our normal one. You should talk about this with the OOC! :lol: OH NO WAY! I like the idea but only here on BJ. ;) (Ps: they are called OCC, not OOC) :lol:
October 28, 200816 yr I had no idea it would be so different :o Ne-Yo and J Hud must be getting great airplay! And Dido at #29 - I think this'll be the highest peak she'll get anywhere in the UK for this song :lol:
October 28, 200816 yr Author I had no idea it would be so different :o Ne-Yo and J Hud must be getting great airplay! And Dido at #29 - I think this'll be the highest peak she'll get anywhere in the UK for this song :lol: LOL! Probably. Ne-Yo at #6 this week on airplay, J-Hud #5 (she was number one last week, hence her #4 Bullboard peak).
October 28, 200816 yr Author This is a great idea. You should post this every week. I will then Glad everyone's enjoying it.
October 29, 200816 yr I intended originally to go for the Billboard Hot 100 methodology but I couldn't find a good enough explanation of it. Does anyone have one? Or any suggestion of of a better chart compilation method? The way the BB Hot100 works is a song on the chart on average has its chart points collected from 55% airplay, 40% sales and 5% streaming. That ratio will vary for each individual song, but the general trend is towards those ratios. How to calculate it for each individual song Ok take the following song (we'll ignore streams): Rrrrandom Rrrrapper feat. Rihanna - Vote Obama Or The Rabbit Gets It Last week: #7 in airplay, #18 in sales Airplay = 78m Sales = 52k Chart points = 78m/1,000,000 + 52k/1000 = 140 chart points (in effect you ignore all the extra zeros) Similarly: Madrasonna - 4 Minutes To Cook This Nan Last week: #197 in airplay, #2 in sales Airplay = 10m Sales = 208k Chart points = 10m/1,000,000 + 208k/1000 = 218 chart points ------ Airplay is called AI (audience impression) in the States. Not sure if ther eis a readily available UK source for this each week. Edited October 29, 200816 yr by 6weeksatnumber7
October 29, 200816 yr Author LOL! Love your example titles :D Thanks for the info. I just worked out the chart again with that methodology, allocating the 5% streaming to sales, as the UK is a more sales-orientated market than the US (IMHO). No big differences, the same 50 songs are still in the top 50. Biggest difference is that #4-6 go Sugababes, J-Hud, Ne-Yo and Keane - Lovers is just top 20, at the expense of Katy Perry - Hot N Cold. I'll post the full thing if anyone wants, but I think 50-50 is fairer in terms of the UK market. If anyone feels diferent, or has other suggestions of how to compile this, let me know.
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