It's very clear that when the BMRB took over they had little idea of how to do the charts. The system they had in place wasn't up to scratch and staff probably not trained to do the job. It took them a while to sort it out. A year later they had ironed out most of the problems. Though I discovered they made the odd error. Such as mixing up the sales of the Archies follow up single Jingle Jangle with Sugar Sugar!
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The 60's postal system wasn't that good. So returns from shops came back late. It could be that some shops were lazy about sending them in. Returns might have been in a bad state to use. Filled in poorly with some shops only sending back returns for top 50 records, not everything and a host of other problems. It would be interesting to see if any of the returning shops were dropped from the panel of shops during the early days of BMRB. I suspect they changed quite a few.
It's likely that many of the charts when they started them was a mess and not very good.
You only have to compare the last chart of the Missing Charts book with that of the first NME chart to see that it wasn't very good.
I have added a comment on 45 Cat entry for Jingle Jangle. So check that out.
The 60's postal system wasn't that good. So returns from shops came back late. It could be that some shops were lazy about sending them in. Returns might have been in a bad state to use. Filled in poorly with some shops only sending back returns for top 50 records, not everything and a host of other problems. It would be interesting to see if any of the returning shops were dropped from the panel of shops during the early days of BMRB. I suspect they changed quite a few.
It's likely that many of the charts when they started them was a mess and not very good.
You only have to compare the last chart of the Missing Charts book with that of the first NME chart to see that it wasn't very good.
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