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enJ0Yable wrote:anpt, there's no such information? But where do the certification remarks (OU for Gold, PL for Platinum) and the non-Hung-layout in this post from April 13 come from then?
I did. Let's see if there'll be an answer
Before streaming appeared, certifications were based on shipments in practically EVERY country of the world.thass_hot wrote:People in the 90s were saying that sometimes an album was already platinum by the day it was released. Certifications were given by shipments, not sales. I really doubt that they were counting unit by unit, store by store!
I'm not talking about certifications, my point was that in such small country where it's easier to track sales no one know albums sales like in US and UK!maroon wrote:Before streaming appeared, certifications were based on shipments in practically EVERY country of the world.thass_hot wrote:People in the 90s were saying that sometimes an album was already platinum by the day it was released. Certifications were given by shipments, not sales. I really doubt that they were counting unit by unit, store by store!
The irony is that the album chart titles are more than 50% portuguese, but portuguese songs are nowhere to be found on the singles chart, which leads us to the question: is the album chart relevant?BlueScorpion wrote:Spanish music is all over the place here. A success in streaming platforms and radio stations also play it a lot.
Notice the only national song here goes as high as #75 on our chart.
The same can be said about the "singles chart". It's impossible that no Portuguese songs are popular in Portugal. It's just Spotify that ruins the charts as they create playlists dominated by overplayed international hits and most people just put them on as a background of their daily activities, that's how it leads to those ridiculous charts in many countries. The same is going on in my office, if it weren't for me and some other colleagues who actually care about what's being played, we'd be listening to the fricking Bieber, Perry, Sheeran, Drake, Lovato, Rihanna and hundreds of urban starlets every day as they're just a "default choice" when putting a random "current" playlist on. Album charts are actually a breath of fresh air because in spite of sinking sales-wise they still offer a wide variety of styles, genres, artists, languages and are much more dynamic.thass_hot wrote:The irony is that the album chart titles are more than 50% portuguese, but portuguese songs are nowhere to be found on the singles chart, which leads us to the question: is the album chart relevant?BlueScorpion wrote:Spanish music is all over the place here. A success in streaming platforms and radio stations also play it a lot.
Notice the only national song here goes as high as #75 on our chart.
But you have radios playing at least 50% of portuguese music and singles chart having few portuguese artists. General public don't choose what radios play, but they choose what they listen to... So, if radios were free to play whatever they wanted too their playlists would be different.maroon wrote:The same can be said about the "singles chart". It's impossible that no Portuguese songs are popular in Portugal. It's just Spotify that ruins the charts as they create playlists dominated by overplayed international hits and most people just put them on as a background of their daily activities, that's how it leads to those ridiculous charts in many countries. The same is going on in my office, if it weren't for me and some other colleagues who actually care about what's being played, we'd be listening to the fricking Bieber, Perry, Sheeran, Drake, Lovato, Rihanna and hundreds of urban starlets every day as they're just a "default choice" when putting a random "current" playlist on. Album charts are actually a breath of fresh air because in spite of sinking sales-wise they still offer a wide variety of styles, genres, artists, languages and are much more dynamic.thass_hot wrote:The irony is that the album chart titles are more than 50% portuguese, but portuguese songs are nowhere to be found on the singles chart, which leads us to the question: is the album chart relevant?BlueScorpion wrote:Spanish music is all over the place here. A success in streaming platforms and radio stations also play it a lot.
Notice the only national song here goes as high as #75 on our chart.
Thanks! And thank you for all your contributions throughout the site, I've seen most of you.LostAvenger wrote:Official Portuguese Top 20 airplay chart from Radiomonitor: http://radioairplay.fm/classifiche-musi ... o-airplay/
As I wrote, the problem are playlists where hardly anyone chooses particular songs.thass_hot wrote:But you have radios playing at least 50% of portuguese music and singles chart having few portuguese artists. General public don't choose what radios play, but they choose what they listen to... So, if radios were free to play whatever they wanted too their playlists would be different.
Singles charts all over the place passed through a lot of changes: before it was the jukebox, then the physical singles sales, digital songs, streaming... Who knows what's gonna happen in the future?
thass_hot wrote:Hi guys! Though this thread started over 10 years ago is always good to find some portuguese people here! I'm trying to build a complete album archive. I already have a little archive. Trying to build especially from the 90s.