Col1967

It may just be a blip but the latest Kworb update shows a jump for both NHS choir versions. If I had money on Bieber I would be getting just a little nervous!

Very little probably. When The Beatles were first made available to download there were all kinds of outlandish predictions, like the entire top 20 being comprised of Beatles songs. Nothing of the sort happened of course, I think 'Hey Jude' crept into the top 40, but that was about it.

Obviously some kind of correlation between new and pre-streaming tracks can always be made but as streaming becomes more dominant this will become ever more theoretical. Consider a time when 99%+ of music is accessed via streaming. Does 100 million streams equate to 1 million sales under the old system? Who knows, and we never can know. I don't think it will be too many years before the term 'million seller' won't be used any more as nothing really 'sells' much anymore in the old-fashioned download sense, rather we will be talking about '100 million streamers'.

Yes. *Mine* However I am only trying to be realistic here. This isn't what I want to happen, it's what I think will almost certainly happen in the long run.

In 5 years' time streaming may become so dominant that the very idea of converting streaming points into a 'sale' will seem hopelessly archaic. The year's most popular tracks will be measured in the tens or even hundreds of millions of streams. What genuine sales that do occur we will think of as being converted into streaming points at the rate of 100 points per sale, or whatever ratio exists at that time. The idea of a 'million seller' will become redundant. It is only at the moment as we go through the transition period when both concepts are running in parallel that everything is a bit messy.

10 years? Must be 25 years for me. Probably would have been 1990 when I bought my first CD player, never looked back since.

That is correct. AFAIK there has been a Sunday chart show on Radio 1 since it started in 1967 but only since Oct 1987 has said show actually aired the *new* chart.

:blink: I'd be intersted to know who exactly you think the charts were aimed at back then, given that they have always been first aired on Radio 1, a station very much aimed at young people.

Presumably you consider the old Tuesday lunchtime chart reveal to be 'retarded' too as the kids were still in school, but that is what I grew up with. There was however another chart rundown on Tuesday evenings, 6-7pm, something like that. May have been a little longer.

39. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat T.I & Pharrell) 62. Marvin Gaye - Got to Give It Up, Pt. 1 (Single Version) No.32 combined :)

That's a pretty sweeping statement, don't you think? My Grandma lived to be 100 and although her short-term memory had gone she was just as lively as she ever was. She was no 'vegetable', that's for sure!

How could I forget Ceefax, the internet of the 1980s!

But those 'latest hits' received heavy rotation on the radio, just as they do today so people still had every chance to hear them.

It was much the same prior to Oct 1987 though. The chart was released on a Tuesday, yet the 'flagship' chart show wan't until the following Sunday, a whole 5 days later. Obviously you couldn't find out the new chart by clicking on the OCC website but the chart was announced on the Tuesday lunchtime and again that evening. Many newpapers would carry the chart on the Wednesday morning, and of course there was TOTP on Thursday evening. More than enough opportunity for people to know what the new chart was, but they still listened on the Sunday.

Meghan currently 0.53 of Mark Ronson and hasn't really put on that much since the pre-orders were dumped in. To be only just over half the no.1 at 11am doesn't bode well for her and I think Uptown Funk will get another week at no.1. I'm not sure it's even going to be that close.

The week between Christmas and New Year always was stale.

Before the Sunday trading laws were relaxed 20 years ago you wouldn't have been able to buy a single on that day. Now ironically Sunday is the biggest sales day of the week.

658K in a day?! Had that come out timed to the start of the chart week sales would have been over 2 million.

Now this is the proper use of the word 'slaying' :)

I certainly recall James Arthur approaching 0.1 over the no.2. I've certainly never seen anything like this before.

Around two thirds of the population of Ethiopia are Christians, the famine in that country was of course the reason for Band Aid in the first place. So to answer the question 'Do They Know it's Christmas?' Yes, they probably did.....

Not the first one, surely?

This is more something that I *want* to be a massive hit than I think will actually be one. It has already made the top 200. yBZgHVXGyBg

I was just finishing secondary school when the *first* one came out :)

Just like George Michael in 1984!