AcerBen

Dreamer - 63,000 (1994) + 303,000 (1995) Don't Stop Movin' - 350,000 The sales that were reported at the time. Dunno about downloads & streams but I suppose Dreamer has extended its lead.

Oh Where Is The Love was an obvious smash from the first listen!

Only spent a modest 7 weeks on the top 40 in '95

A #1 from the 90s could well rocket up the iTunes chart tonight

Who cares if it's confusing? I think the rules need to be far more sophisticated.

They usually squeeze about 15 in

So pleased to see Greg get all the way to the top job. I'll always remember sitting in with him do the Student Radio Chart once at UEA, the night after he'd won Best Male DJ at the Student Radio Awards. One of his mates came in the studio and said he'd been chatting to someone in the industry who said the award basically would guarantee him a job in radio. We had about 6 listeners online at the time but he still took it very seriously. Even then he'd work out the timings of the songs so he would end exactly on time for the news - I asked him why he bothered and he said it was good practice for when he does it for real. My other main memories of him was him always sticking up for me when I was arguing with someone about a record being playlisted in a playlist meeting. Most of the other students wanted it to be a purely indie-rock station, and I had to fight to get anything mainstream on the playlist. Once someone wanted to throw the CD of Madonna's Hung Up out the window rather than playlist it, but he stepped in and said no, this is a great record, we're playing it! I don't tend to listen to Radio 1 very much but I'll certainly tune in to see how he's doing

IIRC Radio 1 initially rejected it from the playlist and had to correct their mistake the week it was released when they saw how well it was selling! It was very big on the video channels though.

It's a shame so few of them break through these days. Very strange.

Bullshit

I'd be surprised if fewer than 1,500 different songs were being bought per day on iTunes UK. We know almost a million downloads are still sold every month so there's got to be thousands of different songs selling 1 copy a week. It's a very long tail.

Footie version of Whole Again is out tomorrow apparently!

Boniface is back? Blast from the past! Edit - different one :(

That doesn't mean they were made up though. They were pure sales charts - whichever sold the most was #1. You can't call that made up.

Yes, it's based on surveys and articles I've read.

I think you're basing this on personal experience rather than evidence. I don't believe for a second people are using YouTube for music less than they were 5 years ago. A heck of a lot of people use it as their primary source of music.

I don't see why they would add airplay now. If they were ever going to do it, it was when sales were falling and the chart was becoming irrelevant below a certain point. There is no need to do it now.

Where the music used is identical to a released version, the label will usually "monetise" the audio so yes. Unofficial remixes probably not. I wonder if they've worded it badly and all monetised audio of chart-registered songs will be counted, regardless of who uploaded it.

Still not sure about videos being added.. can't help thinking it makes it even less of level playing field. It should all be about the song, not how much you spend on the video. But meh. I suppose it has to be done.

May well be the case. I guess we'll see!

https://charts.youtube.com/charts/TopSongs/...180614?hl=en-GB

It’s the second major chart revamp in the last 12 months, following June 2017’s introduction of a cap on the number of tracks by a lead artist allowed in the chart and an increased sales:streams rate for tracks in long-term decline. Music Week research showed the move had successfully produced more hits and sped up the chart, with the OCC hoping today’s moves will have a similar effect and help further boost new music breakthroughs. Why would it do that? Do subscribers listen to more new music than non-subscribers? Perhaps.. I wonder do lyric videos count?

Music Week have just announced the news http://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/offic...r-revamp/072926

I think they should do something to get old hits out of the way, but it'd have to be a permanent solution. Removing streams isn't, because we don't know what's going to happen to the download market - possibly shrink to almost nothing.

Ah, I knew Lee wouldn't have let us down!