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

[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.