I've never followed the charts really. The type of people that still buy records regularly will buy anything as long as it's played on Radio 1 enough, which shows from the amount of plastic rubbish that hits number one. The UK Top 40 & Album Chart is totally irrelevant to the standard of music.
I have to agree, i used to follow them years ago but now i only check if a particular band or artist i like has new stuff out i have a nosey to see how they have done, for example i have been very interested in The Verves reformation so i have been keeping an eye on their positions ( and good they were too)
On the Verve note - I'm a massive fan of theirs but I was incredibly disappointed with the new album. To me it's just Love is Noise and then a load of filler tracks that all sound the same
A Storm in Heaven, A Northern Soul and lesser so Urban Hymns are records that blow you away from start to finish but for me Forth is a gigantic disappointment. That's only me though. It did get to number one
.Sorry to thread wander!
Are there still charts
That's what I said to my daughter the other day when she said something was 'still number one'. I used to be glued to Top of The Pops every week when I was younger but haven't bothered for years.
You carried on longer than most of us then West EnderOoh, let me see.......about 1962, I think.
Dead right cashy, PAYOLA would still have to be rife today for me to buy records, in as much a they'd have to pay me to listen to the crap thats churned out todaylost interest in charts mid 70s, though never was the biggest fan of em, they never were about the best music,just the biggest backhander, "PAYOLA" never died.
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.
In the fiftys and sixtys, i couldent wait for the TOP TWENTY on Radio Luxembourg....Every Sunday at seven o clock,,,,,,now who cares
Same here,must have about 100 tapes upstairs that havnt been listened to for about 20 years.