does your granny always tell you that the old songs are the best?
Now that the top 40 singles chart includes downloads as well as actual physical singles, it's possible (with enough like-minded fools involved) to get pretty much any song, new or old, into the singles chart these days.
This is why one fifth of this weeks top 40 chart is old Christmas records. Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" was the 8th biggest selling single in the UK this week.
The Pogues, Andy Williams, Wham, Slade, Wizzard, Shaky and Band Aid make up the others, and I wouldn't be surprised to see even more seasonal favourites in there next week (Chris Rea, Bing Crosby and John and Yoko are in the top 75).
On the basis that these records are halping to keep new music by the likes of Scouting for Girls, Jason Nevins, Amy MacDonald and Dizzee Rascal out of the charts, should we be pleased that the top 40 is an accurate snapshot of what we are buying, or should it be a bona fide singles chart representing the biggest selling "new" music?
delivered by LB at 3:50 PM
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I have just noticed that 18 of the iTunes top 50 downloads are Christmas records.
Bonkers.
I quite like the way the charts are compiled nowadays. It's a much better and more accurate reflection of a 'chart', so to speak.
Of course, there are still ways that the results can be manipulated, but it's nowhere near as easy to corrupt as it used to be when the charts were compiled by results taken from machines in music shops. I used to work in music stores with these machines and it was fairly common for us to scan barcodes for singles and albums that weren't actually selling.
I probably shouldn't have just said that, should I. Oops.
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