Robbie

Most of the dance singles in the chart are from the era when record shops still stocked a healthy amount of 12" singles and the format still appealed to many dance music fans.

It's basically a list of the best selling 12" singles from the start of the millennium...

I'm assuming the Big Top 40 will remain on a Sunday. If the Big Top 40 programme does move to a Friday it wouldn't be possible to broadcast the programme until 7pm. This is because all of the stations that broadcast the Big Top 40 have to, under the terms of their radio licenses, broadcast local programming in both the Breakfast and Drive slots. Drive is classed as 4pm to 7pm. I can't see the stations wanting to broadcast a chart programme from 7pm onwards on a Friday night.

The Weekends! I'm guessing the first midweek chart will be on a Monday. There's little reason to produce the first one on a Sunday as most of the people who subscribe to the midweeks service are probably on a day off work. It would be good if Monday was the day that Radio 1 played the midweeks update as it would cover all of the weekend. However if a midweeks chart was compiled on a Sunday perhaps Radio 1 could count that down, though I guess it wouldn't be anywhere near a 3 hour long programme.

Perez 'Prez' Prado: 'Patricia' was a top 10 hit in summer 1958. His next top 10 hit (his next chart entry in fact) was 'Guaglione' in May 1995, a gap of almost 37 years.

Amy Winehouse had two versions of 'Valerie' in the top 40 at the same time in 2007, a version with Mark Ronson and a solo version.

and number 36 too...

'Maniac 2000' did make the lower reaches of the UK Top 200 Singles chart, peaking at number 137 on the chart dated 15 April 2000. I'm guessing that it was probably charting as an import.

I'd forgotten about that single. Johnnie Walker was still hosting the lunchtime show at the time the single charted (he left Radio 1 about 2 months later which is when Paul Burnett took over) but DLT was hosting the late afternoon show which featured a half hour recap of the new chart so he will have got to introduce himself as he was the other half of Laurie Lingo & The Dipsticks.

Alvin Stardust and son Adam F.

Joe Brown and daughter Sam Brown. In addition, Joe's wife Vicki managed to achieve something neither Joe or Sam achieved - a number 1 single, albeit uncredited. Vicki provided the female vocals on J.J. Barrie's 1976 chart topper, 'No Charge'.

I didn't realise or had forgotten that there was a problem with the chart of 6 March 1993. Here's a shorter link to the post you refer to. The article was written by James Masterton. Masterton later was the chart analyst at the music website Dotmusic from 1995 until the website closed in December 2003. He then wrote the chart analysis for Yahoo Launch. He's now a producer at radio station TalkSport and still writes chart analysis reports each week at about.com. His website is a good read http://www.masterton.co.uk/ The link for the Google Groups article is http://tinyurl.com/kwsmptq Alan Jones' Chart Focus column for Music Week for 6 March 1993 has the following note at the end of his analysis: The most extreme examples of a chart being incorrect happened in February 1976 and November 1979. On Tuesday 17 February 1976 Johnnie Walker, then of Radio 1, unveiled the new chart on his lunchtime programme. The number 1 was announced as being 'Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez' by Manuel And The Music Of The Mountains. The record had jumped from number 8 to number 1. However record companies soon noticed something was amiss with the chart as there were many records making extreme chart movements, some making massive climbs and some making massive falls. The then chart compiler, BMRB, quickly realised that the computer had thrown a wobbly and had allocated sales from numerous records to other records. Three hours later the chart was rerun and Manuel was found to only be number 4. The correct number 1 was in fact 'December 1963 (Oh What A Night) by The Four Seasons. Cue red faces all around. On Tuesday 6 November 1979 on the lunchtime programme Paul Burnett of Radio 1 announced that the UK had a new number 1 - 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman' by Dr Hook had displaced 'One Day At A Time' by Lena Martell. Except the chart was wrong. Again record companies noticed there was an error in the chart. BMRB ran a check and noticed that some sales data that should have been allocated to Lena Martell had been counted as Dr Hook sales. This time it was only the top 2 that were affected and 24 hours after the chart had been compiled BMRB had to admit the chart was incorrect and that Lena Martell was still number 1. Dr Hook were still at number 2. The following Tuesday Dr Hook really did reach number 1.

I've not heard about (or can't remember!) an incorrect chart from February / March 1993. I remember two consecutive charts from early 1993 both having joint number 19s (with no number 20). That was something that was remarked upon at the time... Going back to the chart in December 1994, the rerun chart was never officially published at the time (in Music week, at least) though it was used as the basis for the "last week" positions for the chart the following week - it probably explains why Bruno never referred to it the following week as it's possible he was either unaware of the chart having being rerun or was advised to not mention it when he counted down the chart the following week! Another set of charts that were also rerun were those dated 1 January 2011 (sales week 19-25 December 2010). The problem was due to the OCC computer having problems with a lack of sales data submitted for 25 December (Christmas Day! and from mainly non-digital record stores) which famously led to sales on the Albums chart being overestimated on average by 20% over the sales week. The Singles chart was largely unaffected as by then few singles were available to buy as physical releases.

The error that led to the chart for 10 December 1994 being rerun was caused by problems in getting computers at several branches of Woolworths to provide sales data for Saturday 3 December 1994. Although the error was caused solely by problems with Woolworths, CIN decided to make the revised chart official. Perhaps because sales data provided by Woolworths for most of the week was correct publishing a revised chart didn't compromise confidentiality in the same way it would have done in 1999 when sales data for the whole of the week for both Virgin and Our Price was missing. The problems that affected the chart of 4 March 1995 and which led to a revised chart being compiled and published were due to data collection problems involving more than one chain of record shops so there was no problem in publishing a revised chart.

Thanks for spotting that the OCC have (presumably by mistake) included the revised chart for the 10 July 1999 in their new archive! I've updated the thread at ukmix with what you have posted above. I hope you don't mind me posting the differences with the new entries but I have thanked you for the list in my ukmix post!

I believe that Radio 1 gets more listeners on a Friday at 4pm to 7pm than for the Top 40 on a Sunday. So moving the chart countdown to a Friday might even help revive some interest in the new chart. It should certainly help boost listening figures. What will be interesting is how streaming will impact on a chart which includes all weekend streaming data in one chart week. Currently the weekend streaming effect is diluted because Saturday streams affect one chart while Sunday streams affect the subsequent chart. As those are the two biggest days for people streaming music, including streaming data for both days in one chart week should help boost the effect streaming has on records in the chart.

The top 200 charts that Chartwatch have used were sourced from a publication called Hit Music. The charts that appeared in Hit Music were unofficial because the publication used to add back in to the charts records which had been "starred out" of the official Top 200 chart. Hit Music was a sister publication of Music Week and therefore the publisher had direct access to the weekly CIN (now OCC) sales reports which for the Singles chart not only listed the Top 200 with sales but which also included these "starred out" titles, along with sales of those titles. It was then easy enough to reinsert the starred out records into the chart. The charts that appeared in Hit Music were more accurate in that the Singles chart was a genuine list of the top 200 best sellers but they had no official status even though the official version of the chart below number 75 wasn't available outside of industry circles. In the week when 'Wannabe' by the Spice Girls was at number 90 on the Hit Music version of the chart it was one of a large number of records which were starred out of the official CIN top 100 / 200. The number 100 record in the OCC (official) version of the chart is 'Help Yourself' by Tony Ferrino (down from number 92) while in the Hit Music version of the chart the record was at number 138, down from number 114. Sometimes upwards of 100 records could be starred out of the full top 200.

It will probably be less important come June if the iTunes streaming service launches that month, as it is is expected to do so. I wonder if acts will hold back releases once iTunes has a streaming service? Hopefully when it does launch it will encourage UK labels to release singles for purchasing sooner than they currently do. Of course the launch of the iTunes streaming service will probably hasten the fall in permanent download sales as there is less incentive to have to buy a track if it is easily available to stream. The amount of streaming that currently takes place will be completely dwarfed once iTunes enters the market.

Based on the article it seems as if they won't. I read it as being that if an album contains, for example, 10 tracks then the total to be divided by 1,000 will be 10 x the weighted average stream. I notice the OCC article refers to taking (up to) the 12 most streamed tracks on the standard version of an album. This would suggest that all additional tracks available only on a deluxe version of an album will be ignored.

I've just noticed that 'Numb/Encore' by Jay-Z & Linkin Park has gone Platinum. The track peaked at number 14 and had an amazing run inside the top 20, meandering around positions 14 to 20 for three months from December 2004 to February 2005. The single is back in the top 75 following a price reduction at iTunes. It has now spent 44 weeks inside the top 75 and 176 weeks in total inside the top 200. Its full chart run: Date: 04/12/2004 - Run: *14*-18-19-19-18-17-16-17-14-17-18-14-17-21-25-30-37-40-50-54-63-63-73-78-84-94-105-103-107-110-139-132-101-109-111-119-110-138-150-155-154 -156-167-142-158-133-148-142-136-137-128-152-140* (53 wks) Re 01: 13/01/2007: 64-69-68-79-69-71-91-99-81-66-74-80-76-92-79-85-79-75-81-77-74-72-74-72-95-135-134-115-106-110-94-97-107-103-102-112-116- 122-132-123-142-109-118-138-134-135-138-151-174-186-192- (104 wsf) 05/01/2008: 126-110-109-116-102-65-65-83-84-82-67-61-76-82-97-105-112-116-127-114-126-130-131-112-122-110-64-45-65-71-98-109-112-123-122-138-141-136 -134-152-153-150-164-181-149-175-168-200-184-0-0-0- (153 wsf) 03/01/2009: 179-175-153-155-148-153-168-173-165-167-182 (111-100c wks, 164 wsf) Re 02: 12/09/2009: 173-178-127-112-178-185 (6 wks, 170 wsf) Re 03: 13/03/2010: 168-158-174 (3 wks, 173 wsf) Re 04: 07/07/2012: 139-180 (2 wks) Re 05: 07/02/2015: 42** (1 wk) Total # of weeks: 176-100c ( Top 75: 44) Thanks to Hanboo at ukmix for the chart data * record removed from the chart due to the 52 week rule in place at the time. The record was allowed to re-enter the chart on 13/01/07 when all download sales began to count towards a chart position. ** still on chart On the Digital Singles chart, in the era when the main chart was based purely on physical singles, the track reached number 3 11/12/2004: 34-3-6-8-5-3-4-7-8-10-13-23-25-25-29-28-33-38--> 18 wks

It's most likely a 2010 album called 'The Best Of Jefferson Airplane' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Jefferson-Air...e/dp/B003SBZEKO

'Do I Wanna Know?' by the Arctic Monkeys is their first Platinum single which means it is also their biggest selling single. Not bad for a record that peaked at number 11 and when they have had two number 1 singles, a number 2 and two other top 5 hits.

This will be a very intriguing countdown as many of the "teen acts" over the years were actually in their 20s when they achieved chart success. It'll be interesting to see who makes the list, especially in the lower half of the chart.

An interesting certification for Radiohead. 'Paranoid Android' is only their second single certification, following on from 'Creep' which was also certified Silver, back in July 2013. Amy Winehouse achieves a Silver certification for her solo version of 'Valerie'. It peaked at number 37 in 2007. She also achieved a Platinum certification for her collaboration on the same song with Mark Ronson, back in July 2013. Good to see Kenny Rogers also achieving a Silver certification for what I think is one of his best tracks, 'The Gambler'. The track finally charted and reached number 22 in 2007, almost three decades after the track was first released as a single

It's the first time I've heard the track or heard of either of them. I was looking at the Shazam chart in the current issue of Music Week and then looked at the Club Charts on Music Week - 'Rhymes' is also number 1 on the Upfront Club chart too! A track being at number 1 in the latter is always a good sign of a big future hit...