End Of The Charts?

[Evil]

Is is not time to finally kill off the singles chart?  A record company can realease a different Elvis Presley single week after week knowing that it is almost certainly guarenteed to go to number one every week.  What's the point? (apart from being a shameless, money-making exercise, seeing that Elvis fans would by a single with him reading out the phone book!)  Goodbye chart. RIP.

[robbieh]

here here, sad isn't it!!!!

[sammy snake]

I want to know who is buying these flippin' Elvis singles!  Surely anyone who is old enough to have been a fan when he was alive will already have them.  Anyone else who maybe likes him will have bought the CD's out in the last few years i.e Elv1s No 1's and ElvIIs No 2's?

 

I've not heard the singles get any radio airplay either (other than on the chartshows)

[brachiopod]

I would care to disagree - the charts is still valid, and a reflection of the relative quality and merits of the featured artists.

I mean, an artist must have to sell, oooh, at least fifteen copies of a single to reach number one these days. After they have sold fourty-three copies, they get a golden disc, and after a whacking great fifty-one copies sold, they have the honour of having a platinum-selling single.

I am of the understanding that there is an up-and-coming popular beat-combo by the name of 'Busted' whose record sales can literally be numbered in their hundreds.

The charts remain a genuine indicator of popular music, and anyone who says it is merely a publicity machine influenced and driven by money-grabbing music industry players and cynical pop impressarios is clearly misguided.

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Major General Despair,

2nd Bromley Contingent (Retired),

Tungfirmly-in-Cheek,

Chartsh1te-shire

[gazzawazza]

Brachiopod, do I detect a degree of sarcasm in your answer?  After all, I'm sure you know it's 44 copies for a much-prized golden disc. 

[Hammer]

Great post Briachiopod!

 

I think we all know that the album charts are a much better indicator of talent and ability, generally speaking, although some sh!te still gets through

[luckyboy]

No keep it! its always been good for a laugh.

[mcmikeymike]

No

 

It is not time to kill the chart, but it is time for it to adapt to include downloads which now sell more than a cd single.

[Greedyfly]

I am buying them for profit - the fact that a classic is going to be top of the charts for a few weeks is hardly worth whinging about - the crap we have in the chats these days is a lot to be desired. I personally dont like Elvis but Im glad something good is topping the charts for a change.   

[Dusky]

I think Greedyfly and I are of a similar mind on a point or two...

 

Would it be too romantic of me to think that some actual quality talent is what's topping the charts?   Yes, die-hard fans would already have a copy - probably several - but is it beyond the realms of possibility that, despite the paltry amounts required to achieve a number one these days, the record-buying of people appreciating some good ol' bluesy rock is what's causing it.  Is it actually a desperate gasp from a drossed-out music industry?