Gambo
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Last Activity: Fri January 27, 2023, 16:32
Joined: Tue August 8, 2006
Location: Croydon
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Yep; casual and careless husbandry of their databases and the charts they produce will likely be at the root of such anomalies. I wish it wasn't only... -
To be honest Splodj I'd pretty-much given up on BHS by that stage, so it was too little too late as far as I am concerned. By the late '90s it had become...Leave a comment:
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^ That'll be it then! It seems the OCC might've been too clever on this one (not an accusation I'm used to throwing their direction!). I suppose there...Leave a comment:
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I did know the 10th March '60 MW edition's Top 50 carried a week ending 5th March date as Gambaccini et al always used this as their (in my opinion incorrect)...Leave a comment:
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While that would've been delightfully convenient and consistent, especially as it would be easier to be able to safely standardise week ending chart dates...Leave a comment:
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I think this just goes to show how few consumers of that genre and its associated sub-forms buy their music nowadays. So much of it seems to attain its...Leave a comment:
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Why don't we seem to receive as thorough a breakdown of official streaming/sales figures in the UK as they do as a matter of course in the US? This is...Leave a comment:
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^ A fair disclaimer really in the circs. He wasn't pretending that every figure he'd seen reported was gospel truth but still felt overall his research...Leave a comment:
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Blimey; 17,252 physical copies of 'Pointless'?! I'd wondered what'd suddenly given it a shot in the arse. Shame though, as the song sadly lives very-much...Leave a comment:
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Others will have more certain knowledge of this Splodj, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that Murrells' tome has since been quite widely criticised,...Leave a comment:
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Well yes obviously there are thousands of tracks if one were to try and hear every Top 100/75/50/30 (depending on chart size) hit of each decade! I found...Leave a comment:
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^ It is interesting to know that Spotify allows users to 'insert' their own tracks into their Spotify-hosted playlists where that track isn't available...Leave a comment:
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My view on this is that where there is sufficiently complete and consistent data covering the pre-1952 period in the UK, then it should be reviewed, and...Leave a comment:
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GaryG I actually find your final two statements far less controversial than your initial ones - I would agree that only on-demand streams should be counted...Last edited by Gambo; Fri January 6, 2023, 16:12.Leave a comment:
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This debate reminds me of the dilemma the industry faced with multi-artist compilation albums 40-odd years ago. The compilations market was gaining ground...Leave a comment:
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So, Christmas fare still very-much in command for the forthcoming chart then, although one assumes the vast majority of streams of the Top 10 came in...Leave a comment:
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'Missing' sounds like the sort of song that Sara Bareilles or better-still Michael Buble might cover these days! Poor old Terry....Leave a comment:
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This is truly ground-breaking stuff then folks! Well done for spotting it and adjusting the figures accordingly. Not huge but still significant enough...Leave a comment:
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