Music downloaded for games such as Rock Band, Guitar Hero and SingStar could feature in the UK charts before the year is out.

 

Games industry magazine MCV reports that the Official Charts Company wants to see sales of music via these interactive games count towards the download and official singles charts, provided a deal can be made between publishers and format holders.

 

“We have been in discussion with record labels and the various games companies that host games which allow users to download master recording versions of artist tracks. In theory they could be eligible to be combined with downloads of the same tracks that take place from the wide range of digital retailing services that currently make up our chart panel,” OCC chart director Omar Maskatiya tells MCV.

 

MCV says that globally around 40m tracks have been downloaded by Guitar Hero fans; while more than 30m are thought to have been downloaded on Rock Band.

 

Maskatiya adds to MCV, “Our brief is to ensure that the charts are the most accurate barometer of the best-selling tracks or singles in the UK. And the information we have to date suggests that the incredibly successful Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises can generate significant volume of master recording downloads that we would like to capture within our weekly survey.

 

“We are at various stages of discussion in terms of capturing these additional downloads so we are not talking about inclusion from next week, but it is certainly high on our agenda to follow through between now and the end of this year.”

 

Source: MW

You have GOT to be kidding.

That sound like a lot of sales. Anyone know which is the main selling tracks on those games? Will thus include games like tap tap revenge? I guess it will.

What a joke!! this has got way out of control! every week there is news about what is being added to the charts! they should stop this nonsense!

Decent idea I suppose.

One disadvantage though, old songs might climb back to Top 75 or even Top 40 and might stay for months. Just imagining it.

I don't know how many people bought the SingStar, Guitar Hero or/and Rock Band games and able to buy d/l-able content though. :lol:

 

About GH and RB, I think I don't mind that, I don't think there are enough download sales from both of these games, unless I'm wrong. So maybe a source of how much? :unsure:

 

TBH, I don't know why add those to the sales, they are not umm... playable. :lol:

:blink: Pointless waste of time. :/

This is going to make a complete mockery of the charts.

It was bad enough having ringtones (such as that rubbish Crazy Frog)

Next they will be having children's nursery rhymes or animal sounds.

 

What a farce!!!

I actually quite like this idea, but I'm a big Singstar fan :wub: It will encourage record labels to release newer songs as playable content for games, but I hope it doesn't reactivate a lot of irrelevant old music.

 

For interest, here are the top 20 downloaded Singstar songs in May 2009:

 

1 - Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

2 - Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers

3 - Shake it - Metro Station

4 - True Colors - Cyndi Lauper

5 - My Immortal - Evanescence

6 - Home - Daughtry

7 - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You - Michael Bolton

8 - The Fear - Lily Allen

9 - Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas

10 - Run - Leona Lewis

11 - Stacy’s Mom - Fountains of Wayne

12 - Oops! I Did It Again - Britney Spears

13 - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

14 - Wherever You Will Go - The Calling

15 - Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin

16 - Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler

17 - Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

18 - Eternal Flame - The Bangles

19 - I Love Rock n Roll - Britney Spears

20 - A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion

 

Hmmmm :/

nothing quite like an epic party singalong to Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come :rofl:

Yeah, some of these are a bit odd :lol:

:(

I'm not sure how this is a bad idea and makes a mockery of the charts. Your paying to download a song, you can download songs to your computer, iPod or phone and be counted but not games console. Why not? What's the difference? It's a legal, paid for purchase just like everything else!

My only issue with it is that the limited selection that these games offer, and the people buying tracks for games may not be the people who would buy music normally.

What's the point when the tracks aren't downloaded to be LISTENED to? :blink: When you download a track for a game you download it to play it on guitar, bass, drums or sing it so why should it count towards the charts?

Quick update:

 

SingStar Top 20 Downloads - June 2009

 

1. My Immortal - Evanescence

2. Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

3. Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles

4. Roxette Ballads Song Pack (dunno if this would count in albums...)

5. So What - P!nk

6. Sometimes - Britney Spears

7. Lean On Me - Bill Withers

8. Freak On A Leash - Korn

9. Nobody Knows - P!nk

10. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

11. Lithium - Evanescence

12. Feel Good, Inc. - Gorillaz

13. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling

14. Shake It - Metro Station

15. Would I Lie To You - Charles and Eddie

16. Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler

17. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

18. Run - Leona Lewis

19. The Fear - Lily Allen

20. Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin

 

 

I'm not sure how this is a bad idea and makes a mockery of the charts. Your paying to download a song, you can download songs to your computer, iPod or phone and be counted but not games console. Why not? What's the difference? It's a legal, paid for purchase just like everything else!

 

I agree.

 

I'd be especially happy if these rule changes are introduced in time for 09.09.09.

 

 

 

 

Must admit, I agree with that one! Actually it bothers me a bit that they haven't said when the Beatles catalogue will be released on iTunes etc, is it meant to happen at the same time as the remastered CDs?

Must admit, I agree with that one! Actually it bothers me a bit that they haven't said when the Beatles catalogue will be released on iTunes etc, is it meant to happen at the same time as the remastered CDs?

 

Hopefully, but nothing has been confirmed.

 

But the final of the three re-recordings of late 1970s John Lennon demos (after Free As A Bird (denied the UK#1 spot by Michael Jackson's worst ever record IMHO the messianically offensive Earth Song) & Real Love) & is apparently now finished and ready for release and heavily rumoured to be made available to hype the Beatles blitz on music fans wallets.

 

The Beatles - Now And Then (1995 "rejected from Anthology 3 version")

Nice! I didn't like Real Love, but Free As A Bird is great, and this sounds promising :)

This is going to make a complete mockery of the charts.

It was bad enough having ringtones (such as that rubbish Crazy Frog)

Next they will be having children's nursery rhymes or animal sounds.

 

What a farce!!!

In a way they did thanks to that HORRIBLE Tellytubbies song in 1998! :lol:.