Another Year In Pop: 29

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dizzee & Calvin have clung on despite McFly's best efforts! Elsewhere, Annie's new single stalls at no.54 and a truly awful video puts CSS in at no.78.

[Poll #1226973]

Comments

Re: OK THEN

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

If that's the case we should be seeing less songs on eg the R1 playlist - I have no idea whether this is happening. The inexplicable refusal of US hip-hop and r&b acts to do much promo here has been what it is for years now - I mean, you'd think Erykah Badu could have thrown a digital single out there the week after she toured at least, but no! - but if anything it seems like more people are releasing more singles, just because making something available on itunes is so easy.

Maybe last year was the post-download era anomaly, the transition between a fast-moving chart and what has eventually become a fairly static one in which the really big hits stick around forever - I noticed that follow-up singles from Estelle and Flo Rida have already departed the top 30 whereas both 'Low' and 'American Boy' are holding steady higher up.

Re: OK THEN

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think last year there was just enough input from physical sales - which tend to be high turnover by their nature - for the download impact to be lessened and the charts to be a bit more frictionless. You only need look at the polls anatol_merklich runs to see that a lot of stuff is getting beached at 41-75.

It wouldn't surprise me - assuming anyone in the biz sees the singles chart as promotionally useful at all - if a new eligibility rule was introduced, with records only counting for 10 weeks outside the top 5, or something similar.

Re: OK THEN

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

A lot of the 41-75 stallers - especially this year - are, I'm pretty sure, tracks which aren't really pushed as 'singles' in the traditional sense; a load of songs from the Step Up 2 The Streets and Sex And The City soundtracks did this, as well as Rihanna's 'Disturbia' which was a bonus track off her reissued album.

I do think the lack of turnover in the chart is more representative of how popular taste works, actually - congregating round a few big hits rather than a new one every week. Which isn't to say that I approve.

Re: OK THEN

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

There are only six songs on the Radio 1 playlist. If there are more, they do not play them. My ex was dead keen on listening to the radio for reasons I never understood.