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Source is this tweet from an Arts & Entertainment journalist for BBC News. https://twitter.com/steviefm/status/983653510360289282 ♦️ Grimmy, Clara & Greg all go down to four shows a week ♦️ Dev & Alice to host breakfast Fri-Sun ♦️ Mollie King & Matt Edmondson to host weekends 1-4pm ♦️ Scott Mills to take over the chart show ♦️ Maya Jama to host new Friday show I'm pleased. Greg wasn't a bad host but I think Scott is just that tad closer to old skool presentation-wise.

The latest edition is now online, featuring hits from Hanson, Alisha's Attic, Pulp, Sash!, Boyzone and the Spice Girls. https://www.mixcloud.com/back2the90s/back-2...how-6-07042018/

It's for new artists only though. A lot of them won't reach gold.

It really needs to do better in the ratings this time round though. I think they could've tried it after Eastenders instead. But at least they are promoting it better this time.

272. Aidan Martin - Punchline This is really good - he auditioned for The X Factor last year with this song.

Yes it's the BBC Trust that needs to chill out a bit when it comes to Radio 1's target audience. I understand that it should be measured on how well it does with younger audiences, but it shouldn't matter if over 30s listen as well. Calculating how well it is doing at targeting young people by using the average listener age is a stupid way of doing it. Plus at 35 OP, you're not exactly old. 35 is not what it was 20 years ago. They should just up their target audience to 35, at least. But the way the BBC Trust sees it is that BBC Radio doesn't need (or positively shouldn't) to cater for the 30s because otherwise they're not being fair to the commercial sector, which supposedly serves us well (though as someone above says, what other station plays the real variety of new music that Radio 1 does) Having said that, at 31, I'm finding myself drawn more and more to Radio 2! I would just like them to reduce to the amount of 60s and 70s music in daytime. And I was never much into Radio 1 anyway. Always found it a little too cool for skool.

In fact they used to manage it between 4.30 and 7 in the early 90s, just had to shorten some of the songs. However, I disagree they should go back to playing the full top 40 because that would be dull dull dull. The chart would need to speed up first. I think they've got the show format much right now, though I think Scott does it better than Greg.

Aidan Martin is now coming out this Friday https://www.instagram.com/p/BgysSlth2eX/

How many of those are there? Looking at the tracklisting there are several songs I've never heard of, but I'm getting a bit out of the loop myself.

Over half of the songs didn't even make the top 10! I think they might need to go down to 2 a year soon. June and November maybe.

I'm surprised they've kept it in the same timeslot. I'd have tried it at 8.30, 9.00 or 9.30.

Aidan Martin is releasing Punchline on March 27th https://twitter.com/Aidan_Real/status/973605186450149376 He was on the The X Factor last year, and that was his audition song. Very nice too.

Show 4 is now online! https://www.mixcloud.com/back2the90s/back-2...how-4-10032018/

It'd be a bit weird to do that. Usually they'd have the live performances in the Sport Relief studio. Unless they're using it as a tool to promote SLFN.

Or it might be the whole show 10pm BBC Two whilst they break for the news

I do wonder though if it's possible that the figures quoted in that Music Week article for the Outhere Brothers singles were wrong. It's perfectly possible the person they asked made a mistake. It seems too far out to me, and for them to have got the two singles the wrong way round too? BBB had 4 weeks at #1 compared to 1 week for DS, and I'm sure singles sales increased as 1995 went on. Zobbel's points system chart for '95 also has Boom Boom Boom higher than Don't Stop. Their chart runs are quite similar though so can't be sure. I'm prepared to believe 94-96 original sales were too high, but I wonder if too much emphasis is placed on that MW article.

By the way, how do we know that they were already close to 100% by mid-96? What's that based on?

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/record-sho...k-figures-2016/ So it must be a while now since it was as low as 4,000. But that's an amazing increase isn't it? It was Outhere Brothers "Boom Boom Boom" that supposedly sold more than it shipped - but that's only based on an off-the-cuff remark quoted in Music Week. We don't even know if it's true. Does a record label have to prove they have shipped x amount before BPI can certify? I might do some digging on records that only just crept over the 200/400/600k sales lines (according to the original figures) in 94-96 and see whether they were certified or not. Maybe if CIN said they'd sold that many that was enough proof though. I wonder.

Thanks, I think I get what you're saying there. So the only other option was to attempt to work out a more realistic multiplier for the panel sales for that period. That wouldn't be easy - especially as some people were saying in the old Haven thread that it probably should have been adjusted several times during 1995. Perhaps if they worked with labels on some of the biggest records for the period - for instance the mentioned example of the Outhere Brothers "Boom Boom Boom". Maybe some labels will be able to confirm exactly how many physical copies were shipped, and the more of that data you could collect the easier it would be to work out what the multiplier should've been. Or maybe all the figures would contradict each other and it'd be impossible! I suppose it would take a lot of time and effort by OCC. It really annoys me though as a charg geek, especially as 94-96 is pretty much my personal golden era for pop!

What I don't understand is if they have the DUS figures from 94-96, why don't they know how many stores reported into those figures? If they do, then they ought to recalculate the sales to some level of accuracy. It must just be that they don't care enough to do it.

Wish they'd sort out the problem of 94-96 once and for all!

That old forum link is so interesting to read through for a geek like me

It's quite close to Haven Forum's list from 2009 (which was based on 90s sales only) http://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/53995 Did OCC ever publish an official list? Or have they published multiple ones which contradict each other, perhaps due to the problem with the multiplier used in the mid-90s? I caught a bit of this show - was great to hear Bruno doing a new show! I need to try to record it next time it's on and maybe edit it into a radio show.

I definitely read April somewhere

She had a single enter the top 50 last year didn't she