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Hi Can anyone help me confirm the correct chart dates for 1960's charts. I have a database that I downloaded years ago with 1960's charts, but the dates differ from those shown on the OCC website. For example, I've got the Christmas chart for 1967 as week ending 30th December 1967, but the Official Charts website lists this same chart as 27/12/67-02/01/68. I remember seeing a comment on a Facebook group that the OCC moved the dates by 3 days to tie in with the publication dates of later charts but does anyone know what dates were affected by this? Was it all of the 1960's? Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks Dan.

Hi Does anyone know if there were ever official decade end top 100 best selling singles charts published for the 1990’s and 2000’s. I can only find top 40’s? Thanks for any help

It's not 99p on googleplay??? No reissue/deluxe edition that I can find either. Anyone got any more info?

It's sad to see the decline in listeners to the Radio 1 Top 40 but it's not that surprising. The Top 40 on a Sunday used to be an event but it lost importance due to the midweeks info being released. The format of the radio show was tinkered with too much - records would be skipped, features would be added, and I outgrew what was the target audience as Radio 1 panicked about appealing to anyone older than their remit would allow. I couldn't imagine sitting glued to a 3 hour radio show now. Times change. Fearne and Reggie were the final nail in the coffin for me.

I don't mind, but at least jewel cases can be replaced if they get damaged.

Hope I'm not p*ssing anyone off by posting this.... Amy Winehouse is on course to top the UK artist albums chart posthumously this coming weekend with the newly-issued Lioness: Hidden Treasures outselling its closest rival by more than 20,000 sales. The Island album, who brings together mostly previously-unreleased tracks from across her recording career, had sold around 67,000 copies up to the end of trading on Monday, according to the Official Charts Company. Behind it currently in second place is Reprise/Warner Bros’s Michael Buble album Christmas, which was at two on last Sunday’s chart. The X Factor 2010 runner-up Rebecca Ferguson further increases the number of former contestants from the show among the Top 10 album sellers with her debut Heaven currently showing up as a new entry at three. It is only around 600 sales behind Buble’s album and a good 13,000 ahead of the previous year’s silver medallist Olly Murs’ second longplayer In case You Didn’t Know, which debuted at one last Sunday. Murs is putting up a strong fight to top the singles chart finally with Dance With Me Tonight, which has been number two for the past fortnight. It is in second place again so far this week, but only about 1,800 sales behind the X Factor Finalists 2011’s Wishing On A Star, which debuted at one last weekend. The week-on-week sales decline for the Murs single is far more modest than that for Wishing On A Star, down 20% on the last seven days compared to 64%, so he has every chance of catching up and overtaking this year’s finalists. On the albums chart last year’s third-placed contestants One Direction slip 4-8 with first album Up All Night, which has now been overtaken by Adele’s ever-present XL album 21 whose sales are up 50% on the week following her six Grammy nominations, although chart-wise it drops 5-6. Asylum/Atlantic’s Ed Sheeran album + is also showing real resilience, holding in seventh place but with sales up 48% on the week to date. Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna album Talk That Talk completes the top five, dropping 3-5. A Strictly Come Dancing performance is working wonders for Alfie Boe whose Decca-issued Alfie’s sales are up 58% to move it 20-15 in the week so far, while the Def Jam/Mercury album Under The Mistletoe by Justin Bieber has increased its sales by 146% and climbs 54-28 after he performed on last Sunday’s X Factor results show. Its title track moves 122-28 on singles. Show judge and fellow performer on the night Kelly Rowland’s own Universal album Here I Am is also on the rise, moving in the week to date 56-30 with a 127% increase in sales. With only three more chart weeks to go before Christmas, the number of big new albums out is drying up, reflected by a paucity of new entries to the midweeks. However, Ferguson’s new album is joined by new sets from Nonesuch/Warner Bros’s Black Keys, Nuclear Blast’s Nightwish and Roadrunner’s Korn. On the singles chart the big new arrival of the week is the Interscope/Polydor-issued Dedication To My Ex (Miss That) by Lloyd featuring Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne. It is new at three on the week’s first sales flashes, just ahead of Island/Lava’s Jessie J single Who You Are, which moves 8-4, and Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris single We Found Love, dropping 3-5. Heavily backed by Zane Lowe and 1 Xtra, the 3 Beat/AATW single Still Speedin’ by Sway featuring Kano will move this weekend from its lowly 137th position high into the Top 20. It is presently 12th for the week, two places ahead of the newly-issued Jive/RCA offering 5 O’Clock by T-Pain, Wiz Khalif and Lily Allen.

Still prefer CD albums but love the instancy of downloads for tracks. I still like having that physical copy of a CD album for the booklet etc. Also, you can generally get the CD for around the same price or cheaper than a download. Plus you don't need to worry about losing a computer file or your hard drive knackering.

Dunno about the better quality??? Can an mp3 ever be better than a CD?

From Digital Spy... BBC Four saw its audience rocket last night as Top of the Pops made a triumphant return to primetime, early overnight data indicates. Big Hits: TOTP 1964 to 1975 kicked off the music-themed night with 880k (3.7%) between 8.30pm and 10pm, following which Top of the Pops: The Story of 1976 was seen by 1.13m (5.7%), the channel's largest Friday audience in its history. At 10.50pm, the nostalgia continued with 850k (5.8%) for an original Top of the Pops episode, after which documentary Top of the Pops: The True Story grabbed 675k (7.2%) at 11.20pm.

Yes, I remember that. Both sets of shops were literally within 2 minutes walk from each other. And they were all busy! Saturday in Virgin was hectic. I worked there on Saturdays for about 8 weeks when it first opened on Argyle Street. It was a sh*t job so I had to give it up. You could have been selling baked beans for all they cared. Bizarrely, they always ran out of 1p pieces by about lunchtime which I always found completely frustrating in a shop where EVERY product price ended in 99 pence!!! I really miss the late night opening of Tower Records in Glasgow too. Fantastic for night time browsing and always had real gems of import CD's. Good times!

I immediately thought of the three stores in Glasgow City Centre when I read the MW article. They are all within 10-15 mins walk of each other. I only ever visit the Argyle Street store so I'm glad to hear that there's a good chance that it won't be affected. It will be sad to see any of them go though. I used to work part time in the Virgin store on Argyle Street right next door to HMV. This was in 1988/9 and who would have thought then, with 2 huge music stores surviving side by side, that there was possibly a time when a city centre wouldn't have a big music store! Hopefully that's still a long time away!

I agree with some of the points made, but I'd be GUTTED if HMV close. There was a report at the tail end of last year saying that they could be the next Woolworths. Yes, the catalogue product instore is ridiculously priced in some cases (it always has been), but they really are competing well on chart/new releases in store and the 2 for £10 deals are great. I can't imagine going into the city centre or to a shopping centre and not visiting HMV. It's just great to browse through their stuff, and it's worth an extra pound or two to do that. We cannot rely on supermarkets for our CD's. The amount of shelf space given to CD's has shrunk in the last year or so, and it will continue to do so if demand falls. Supermarkets are understandably ruthless when it comes to this. No retailer can compete with a £7-£8 price tag on a chart CD, but the supermarkets will make a loss on that item to get you in store in the hope that you buy other items while you are in. I cannot fault HMV for not matching these prices when it is a core part of their business. In my opinion, one of the biggest problems last year for CD sales was that the release schedule was very poor. Take That show that the potential is still there for a big new album, but it was a fairly uninspiring year. Downloading is obviously an issue too, but if there isn't good product in store then people won't buy CD's. Here's hoping that HMV can pull through.

Does anyone know where the revised top 100's are available online?

I'm a lurker here every week and just want to say thanks and Merry Christmas to all the regular posters, and especially to the guys who post the info.