Another Year In Pop: 32

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

For better or worse, Katy Perry is this week's brand new Number 1. Rihanna moves up into the top ten, and in inexplicable re-entry news, Baz Luhrmann's in at no.72 with 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)'. Okaaay.

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Comments

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I imagine one thing is the conservatism of radio programmers, who I think are ignoring lots of this stuff, and the other thing is that lots of the stuff missing out has a younger appeal, and the youngsters are probably more likely acquiring this stuff for free rather than buying it off iTunes.

I hope that is the case otherwise I would entirely lose faith in this country.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah - lack of interest on the part of record companies, too. This happens too regularly to totally absolve the British public from blame though, especially looking at what they ARE buying.

The thought that the charts are now dictated by old people is so disturbing, it makes sense though.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I think some of the loss of the record company interest has been the big decline in single sales - historically it was possible to make profits from singles (making them worthwhile to release) whereas now they are much less profitable as they don't sell enough (there is more money in albums). Historically the R&B & Dance markets have been heavily biased to single sales and have sold less well as artist albums. Now that singles don't sell enough, it's not worth it if they can't sell albums of the back of it. (well, that's what a colleague who used to work for Ministry's label told me anyway)