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OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (StoneBridge Remix) - isn't this just a re-issue from 2015

It made sense in the sales era though , because you could only buy a track once, and you wanted as many people to do that in the same week as possible in order to chart high. And they did try it in the download era in 2011 and it didn't work very well because so many tracks were flopping.

I think the idea behind it being Friday was that it's a feel-good day, the start of the weekend, and when people have more time to focus on music. I remember some physical retailers saying the downside though was that it meant they lost out on there being two spikes in footfall during the week - on the Monday and the Saturday. The day of the chart reveal wouldn't have been much of a factor in deciding in Friday for most countries, because a lot of countries released the charts on other days and there was no tradition of listening to the top 40 on a Sunday afternoon. It's also understandable that we changed the chart date because then it was still about doing as many units in the first week as possible. Of course the singles market has changed since then, but what about albums? There's no point changing it back now just for the sake of a tradition which is pretty much dead.

The change was more about global album releases coming out the same day of the week, so something coming out on a Friday in some countries wasn't leaked online before it was released on the following Monday/Tuesday in UK/USA. It didn't mean record companies had to release everything globally at the same time. IIRC we still had some held back single releases, though I think most decided it was time to try "On Air On Sale" again pretty quickly, having abandoned the idea a few years previously.

Yes yes yes. My unpopular opinion is that the charts are there for the benefit of the music business and for the promotion of new releases, over and above tracking "popularity". Now we've gone past just counting sales, they should use the streaming data in a cleverer way, even if that means that the rules become complicated.

Call My Name, Wish You Were Here and Home Movies are some good recent-ish Lukas Graham tracks. It had seemed they'd given up on the UK though.

I'm not denying that it's popular, but 600,000 is clearly now way too low threshold for platinum if songs that have never made the top 40 can go triple platinum. I don't get why they haven't changed it when they have done in the past when the market has changed. Also what Jim said.

LOL Why the hell aren't OCC doing something to stop this madness

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No, they were called pocket CDs

I don't know when, but I suspect the reason for it would've been that non-standard packaging made it more difficult for retailers to rack.

Whilst it does seem illogical not to be playing certain tracks, I expect it's because they test every record they play with a panel, to ensure that their target audience likes it and wouldn't change channel if it came on. If it doesn't hit a certain percentage, it doesn't get playlisted. That's probably why stuff can get added really late. At some point the panel has had a chance to get know the song or artist from elsewhere, and it finally gets the magic number to get on.

It's LESS ORDINARY than it too then.

No, I think it's rather lovely. Probably didn't deserve to be #1 but I still listen to it from time to time. It's better than the Alex Warren song.

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