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Top 40 Faces New Digital Shake Up
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The Top 40 is facing a shake-up as chart bosses consider incorporating songs from music streaming sites. Link HereOffering free, legal access to millions of tunes, online jukebox services like We7 and Spotify have taken off in 2009. Users can listen to tracks without paying to own them, as they have had to with vinyl, tapes, CDs and downloads. The Official UK Charts Company said it was "bound to" include streaming and subscription services at some point, but not for at least another year. What do y'all think? |
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So how would this work then? They count how many times a person listens to a song on spotify or do they count just the once when someone finds a song on spotify? Also how would they know. This would surely mean that the chart would no longer be what it prides it self on "based on song sales alone". Surely counting when someone listens to a song on spotify that in a way is similar to counting radio air play.
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I often play songs on Spotify which I would never consider downloading. You know, silly ones... or ones you just one to hear once and that's all.
Surely things like that will skew the charts. Furthermore, it opens the door for misuse of the charts. Fans would go on campaigns to get a track to the top. Because it's free to listen then they'd do it that way because it's free and easy. |
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I often play songs on Spotify which I would never consider downloading. You know, silly ones... or ones you just one to hear once and that's all.
Surely things like that will skew the charts. Furthermore, it opens the door for misuse of the charts. Fans would go on campaigns to get a track to the top. Because it's free to listen then they'd do it that way because it's free and easy. |
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Surely as soon as you listen to a song it's counted as a "Sale" and every subsequent listen wouldn't count.
Nothing to stop multiple accounts of course, but I can't see it really being that big a deal to incoporate. |
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I think it might be time to end the singles chart. The industry only cares about albums, the only people who buy singles/ download songs are kids with a bit of pocket money (generally speaking), and it's just going to get daft about what counts as a 'sale'. What next? Counting people singing songs to themselves?
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I think it might be time to end the singles chart. The industry only cares about albums, the only people who buy singles/ download songs are kids with a bit of pocket money (generally speaking), and it's just going to get daft about what counts as a 'sale'. What next? Counting people singing songs to themselves?
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Surely the sales is what should count because that shows how many people are willing to PAY for that song. not how many people listen to it for free.
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Why don't they count how many times people rip off shit from Limewire and these torrent sites as well, while they're at it.
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