A Year In Pop: 49

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Santa Claus has well and truly come to town. But also a number of legitimate new entries a-sneakin' in before the year-end curtain falls.

[Poll #1103649]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's usually no official chart in week 52 because of christmas/new year so I'm going to do a big reminder post then and get people to shout out for overlooked tracks.

And then the weekend before the first chart of 08 will be when I actually do the final totting up.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

There's usually no official chart in week 52 because of christmas/new year

Hm are you sure about that? I notice that there are no week gaps on e.g. Chart Stats (http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=20061223) or polyhex, and their data conform perfectly to other official chart data in all instances I've checked. (The link goes to the week of 23/12/2006, with buttons to next and previous weeks etc.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What they tend to do is repeat the previous chart - so in polyhex you'd see it listed just as a non-mover.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

I still can't make that fit... Search e.g. for the song "21st Century Christmas" on polyhex (use Start Of Field option). It entered on 23/12/2006, and has the run 2-7-43, ie no nonmovage there. And Chart Stats agrees that these were the placings on 23/12/2006, 30/12/2006 and 06/01/2007 respectively. It could of course be that these both use the same non-official data for the interim week...?