in my opinion i think the chart as we know in on the brink of extinction,i think the last chart single i bought was aroud 1990ish, as most people know my hobby is djin,since i left the bar 101 ive been djin my local and i aint played a single tune from the charts, last time i saw ther chart elvis was number 1 ffs......nah its time to say goodbye to top of the pops and the garbage it plays.my 14 year old gets all her music from file sharing sites and none of it consists of stuff from the charts,i mean if she can down load 15-20 songs and put them on a disc for less than 20p why would she want to spend a fiver on one disc.

More people buy a single as a ringtone now than an actual record.

Its all 'The Monkees' fault. If they wern't created, people would have had no manufactured groups to aspire too, resulting in real music in the charts.

The singles charts don't really mean anything. artists make very little money from sales of singles, they serve just to promote albums, which is where all the money is.

There are far better things in the album chart anyway, and in any case, who cares about the charts, what purpose do they serve apart from a mass advertising campaign for the big record companies, and so we can watch young kids with as much musical talent as a pube prancing around on stage miming to some rubbish track on top of the pops?!
"pop" music is not the be-and-end-all of music, open your eyes (well ears) and you'll find a huge wealth of fresh innovative proper music out there. Thank God for the internet I say, for bringing good music to the masses!

Originally posted by hade
The singles charts don't really mean anything. artists make very little money from sales of singles, they serve just to promote albums, which is where all the money is.

There are far better things in the album chart anyway, and in any case, who cares about the charts, what purpose do they serve apart from a mass advertising campaign for the big record companies, and so we can watch young kids with as much musical talent as a pube prancing around on stage miming to some rubbish track on top of the pops?!
"pop" music is not the be-and-end-all of music, open your eyes (well ears) and you'll find a huge wealth of fresh innovative proper music out there. Thank God for the internet I say, for bringing good music to the masses!

well said:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Good riddance to it! The charts have been full to the brim of manufactured, third-rate twaddle for ages. It seems that "artists" only have to sell a few thousand these days to get in the charts anyway. Increasingly meaningless in the age of the I pod.

Yeah, if you're not a manufactured 6 piece group of fit girls or lads with washboard stomachs and no other talent, the "fans" don't want to know these days... Bloody fickle teenagers :rant:

Never really look at the charts unless I have to for work purposes :suspect:

As far as Im concerned its not been worth the bother.. Its either covers or as others have said, manufactured garbage :gag:

Some of you may be interested in http://www.audioscrobbler.com/charts/weeklytrackchart.php - charts of what people are actually choosing to listen to - not what gets sold as a ringtone, not what a couple of hundred people buy as a single, not what radio stations decide you should listen to.
Go to the Home section of the site for more info on how it works.