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Every record at the BBC had to be approved. Many had labels attached saying things like not to be played. Or not for daytime etc. That's why the BBC called...
Since the Real Chart is based on ALL shops and actual sales, not a point based system based on what some shop says is the top ten seller. Or a combination...
The record was banned, the BBC was slow however to react sometimes to the banning calls sometimes. And a record that was played at one time wasn't played...
It was banned by the BBC as it was featured on a BBC Four documentary repeated only last week about records and tunes banned by the BBC. The reason wasn't...
The famous death discs banned by the BBC and John Leyton. The driving force of the sales was Brian Epstein shops in Liverpool NEMS. He ordered stacks...
As I have said before it was very easy to hype the top 30 of any chart. Jeff Beck being the best example I know for certain. It was in the top 30 of several...
It's all down to Music Week. The paper put a pull out section for Record Shops to display (often on the Window to the store) this was a Top 75. Due to...
I wonder why the NME stuck with just 30 positions during the 60's? They had enough shops on the book to get to the top 50 of the Record Retailer and Melody...
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