[maxwell silver]

Just been on about this to the family this morn.Charts irrelevant these days.Bring out an album,rip about 7 songs off as singles.Who wants to buy them when you already have them on the album.Remember bands like Roxy Music bringing songs out that were'nt on albums(or single free albums)so you had to buy the single.Or a band would bring out a single that was a taster for the album.Plus you'd usually get 1 or 2 songs on the b-side that were'nt remixes of the single but brand new songs unavailable elsewhere.BMRB was the only chart at one time & taken as gospel but then it was chart sponsered by Pepsi etc & like mentioned before payola,backhanders,freebies etc..Anyway it's all crap these days.