Should Top Of The Pops return full time?
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Did the poll in the TV show forum so I thought I'd do it here as well to see any difference in results lol.
Should Top Of The Pops return full time? 105 votes
Yes
62%
66 votes
No
37%
39 votes
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I suppose one of the problems of it airing on a Saturday night is that the chart rundown will seem so out of date.
They showed a selection of chart singles of the week a new release and maybe a special appearance by someone and had no mindless interviews.
It worked well but as time moved on video became the order of the day and latterly YouTube etc has taken over so the need for a show like TOTP has just faded away.
So no it wouldn't be good to bring it back
TOTP always generally aimed at the under 25 demographic but also had a following from on older demograahic, especially during the mid to late '70's when there was a large following for MOR type music.Punk changed all that, followed by the New Wave movement which had a wider demographic, as did the Alternative Rock period (lmid '80's to mid '90's).
Without that wider demographic a show like TOTP is never going to capture the general public's attention (to a certain extent) as it did before.
They'd probably be on it nearly all the time :yawn:
Let's move on, there's got to be a new format out there.
Also, the charts move quite slowly now, they'd have to get people to perform the same song twice on different weeks, or venture out the top 40. There's not enough new entries each week, they'd just be playing the same songs shuffled around a bit each time.
What we need is a slightly less eclectic version of Later. .With Jools Holland that established acts are happy to go on and perform new material (Top 40 or not) or older tracks. Kind of like a one hour a week Big Reunion gig. Gone are the days when most new acts with any longevity will be created through single sales.
Lack of 80/90s style pop music surely is not an indicator of lack of quality.
Seriously though I'm not sure what you mean. These days its pretty much all about single sales, with the iTunes age were we don't have to commit to a full album and instead cherry pick the tracks that sound appealing single sales are more important than ever. Why do you think satellite singles are more common or someone like Rihannia releases so many
Also I can't really picture any of the acts from The Big Reunion TV show featuring on Jools Holland. Can you imagine "here's Radiohead and next up B*Witched" . This does kind of come off as "I miss the music of my youth and only want to see that on TV".
Maybe, but there's already a music channel (I think VIVA or something?) that played the top 40 every weekday. The only difference would be the BBC would probably have the occasional live performance on their show, and they're not going to be able to get many big artists to perform on a show that only gets 100,000 viewers.
I agree. The music industry has to be profitable at the end of the day, and programs need to realize they have their target audience, and their target audience have songs that they do NOT want to hear. On the rhyhtmic/dance/urban programs, you're not going to be able to have a rock band appear on there. The audience of those programs don't want to hear rock music, they're tuning in to hear Rihanna, Disclosure, Kendrick Lamar, Rudimental, etc. Same with rock stations, you can't decide to play a Katy Perry song occasionally, rock fans don't want to hear that.
In the past we've seen people like Jay-Z performing at rock concerts. It NEVER goes down well. Rock and mainstream should not be mixed. It's extremely difficult to crossover.
Shellman. :cool:
I used to love the performances on CD:UK - they often had the number one act in to perform just before the show ended, if I remember right? I'm not sure I preferred it to TOTP but the performances were good. The thing is, I have a clearer memory of watching TOTP as a kid and into my teens than the last few years it was on air (I was 23 when it was cancelled), which makes me wonder if it had lost its edge (as it were).
I definitely do miss there being a weekly music show which features live performances and a chart rundown, since I don't listen to the radio anymore and im not familiar with some of the chart names I hear nowadays. I might quite like some of the artists, I'd be interested enough to watch a half hour show like that again I reckon but I don't feel particularly bothered to trawl youtube for videos of their songs, if you know what I mean? the main appeal of TOTP was the fact it featured live performances - I'd take an artist more seriously if I thought they had a good live presence, I reckon.
I can't imagine the BBC re-commissioning the same show anytime too soon due to the links with JS (Savile), something tells me they'd be attacked by certain tabloid about it one way or another. I actually talked about this with at new years, when they had that new year special on - she was wondering if they'd bring the show back full time and I said if they did, they might well change the name to lose the association after the scandal and all of that but she didn't think they'd need to. She wasn't impressed with the lineup on the new year special and said she'd be concerned if it came back that it'd end up like some music shows on ITV, too Simon Cowell based, with X Factor and BGT artists appearing rather than other lesser known acts. However, if it did come back, presumably it'd be on BBC, not ITV, whom broadcasts Cowell's shows and another staple part of the TOTP format was that it showed a cross section of songs in the main top 40 chart, so if Cowells acts are in the charts then their automatically likely to appear, I'm not sure what anyone can do to change that(?!).
I have access to many music channels but I never watch them - some barely show music, preferring to air teen based documentaries and other factual shows etc. and others show music videos but I prefer watching live performances.
If I like a song, I'll download it (usually through Amazon, its cheaper than iTunes often and downloads straight to iTunes ), you can get music in lots of places nowadays but there's a difference between watching lyric videos or official music videos and documentaries and a decent show with live performances every week.
I couldn't honestly name a single act in the top 10 or even the top 40 nowadays, well I could hazard a guess at most. It does seem different these days...there again, I guess perhaps most people in their early 20s stop paying attention to the charts and things? it just so happened the show was cancelled when I was in my early 20s, so I presume I'd keep watching if it hadn't been cancelled.
Wonky Donkey!! :eek:
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