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Old 15-01-2010, 23:48
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Cmon its gettin a bit too much now

Does this one set of people have so much influence over our chart its quite annoying

http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2010/0...rm-u-k-charts/

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Old 15-01-2010, 23:50
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Old 15-01-2010, 23:56
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Sound of 2010 winner Ellie Goulding is far from impressed with the show's potential dominance of the charts. She said, "Lets start up a campaign again ... a Rage Against campaign...but not Rage this time, a Pearl Jam or Soundgarden [instead
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Old 15-01-2010, 23:58
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There was a story linkin the rage people to this but i carnt find it now
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Old 16-01-2010, 01:03
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Or people could just be allowed to buy what they want...
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Old 16-01-2010, 17:46
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Or people could just be allowed to buy what they want...
My thoughts exactly!

(we think as one, MissLib! )

These bloody campaigners should focus their attention on things that actually matter. Bored already.
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Old 16-01-2010, 17:48
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I knew the Christmas Rage campaign would get to people's heads. Seriously, do they think they can do this time and time again? It's not going to work a few weeks after the first one.
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Old 16-01-2010, 17:52
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Meh, the X Factor (as much as I enjoy it) I get. I get why people want to stop some of the X Factor domination, especially at Christmas.

However, as an avid Glee viewer, I download some of the songs purely for pleaure. Not to get them to number 1 - that is irrelevant to me. I always download legally, and that just happens to contribute to chart position.

Mind you, I suppose because I only listen to them for pleasure it wouldn't bother me if another campaign came along to stop Glee dominating the charts as they're not in it for chart success. But it just seems a bit daft, campaigning against something that hasn't even been around for 5 months yet!
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Old 16-01-2010, 17:52
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My thoughts exactly!

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These bloody campaigners should focus their attention on things that actually matter. Bored already.
I think we do, yes
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Old 16-01-2010, 17:54
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But it just seems a bit daft, campaigning against something that hasn't even been around for 5 months yet!
That's a good point, actually. What would be the point of a campaign against them? Because the campaigners 'don't like it'? No one is going to get behind that. At least the Rage campaign was (apparently) to 'take back' the Christmas No. 1.
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:03
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Or people could just be allowed to buy what they want...
Took the words out of my head, why do all the haters have to attempt to flood the charts with rubbish, just because they don't like 1 or 2 songs? I'm not the biggest fan of
Plan B's Stay Too Long, doesn't mean i'm gonna start a facebook campaign to get some random song like Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson to number 1, and if they must start a random attack, why not choose a current song released the same week as the song they campaign against?
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:04
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I don't get what a campaign would actually do. I could be wrong but I doubt that any of the Glee songs will get to No.1 anyway. It's not like Glee has been around for years dominating the charts.
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:04
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The campaigners want to put an end to chart dominance by X Factor, Glee etc by dominating the charts themselves and destroying the concept of letting people just buy what they want to by begging them to buy something they might not like instead just for the sake of it. Genius. :yawn:
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:04
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If anything, the campaign should be to get the original to Number One. Although to be honest it seems to be doing OK on its own right now! Don't think it'll get to Number One without a campaign unfortunately (as it would be well-deserved), but it's still doing very well considering.
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:26
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If anything, the campaign should be to get the original to Number One. Although to be honest it seems to be doing OK on its own right now! Don't think it'll get to Number One without a campaign unfortunately (as it would be well-deserved), but it's still doing very well considering.
I wouldn't necessarily say it's "doing okay on its own".

A Facebook campaign to make the original version of "Don't Stop Believing" the Christmas number one, the fact Joe McElderry performed it twice throughout the X Factor, and the "Glee effect" (as many people have already seen the series from American sites) have all contributed to its current chart position.
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:38
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I wouldn't necessarily say it's "doing okay on its own".

A Facebook campaign to make the original version of "Don't Stop Believing" the Christmas number one, the fact Joe McElderry performed it twice throughout the X Factor, and the "Glee effect" (as many people have already seen the series from American sites) have all contributed to its current chart position.
^^ This.

I for one (embarrassingly) had never heard the original DSB before I heard Joe sing it on the X Factor.
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:46
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OK, I know it's not doing this well strictly on its own - what I meant is that it's well considering there hasn't been a Rage-scale campaign for it to get it higher in the charts. The original is getting more radio airplay these days because it's getting more well-known and the more people that hear it, the more people are liking it and buying it. And the fact that it's doing so well even with the Glee cover being released shows something.
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Old 16-01-2010, 18:58
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OK, I know it's not doing this well strictly on its own - what I meant is that it's well considering there hasn't been a Rage-scale campaign for it to get it higher in the charts. The original is getting more radio airplay these days because it's getting more well-known and the more people that hear it, the more people are liking it and buying it. And the fact that it's doing so well even with the Glee cover being released shows something.
It shows what a fantastic, timeless song it is. I don't think anyone is denying that. Just that without Glee, Facebook and X Factor influences it wouldn't be in the top 40.
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Old 16-01-2010, 19:11
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OK, I know it's not doing this well strictly on its own - what I meant is that it's well considering there hasn't been a Rage-scale campaign for it to get it higher in the charts. The original is getting more radio airplay these days because it's getting more well-known and the more people that hear it, the more people are liking it and buying it. And the fact that it's doing so well even with the Glee cover being released shows something.
There was a campaign this Christmas and the Christmas before it to get the original version of DSB to number one, exactly the same as the Rage one (aside from the publicity and number of member. And the ironic "f**k you, I won't do what you tell me" tag-line). It didn't achieve its goal then, but it's being helped towards it now by these shows.

It's getting more airplay because now there's a demand for it - people have heard it on the X Factor and Glee and now they want to buy it. I'm not saying the song was unknown or not liked before these shows used it, but they brought it to the attention of a wider market.
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Old 16-01-2010, 19:53
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Overkill.
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Old 18-01-2010, 21:16
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I remember 1978, and the charts were packed full of Grease songs. Not the lower reaches either, they were something like 1, 2, 4 and 9 at one point I think. John Travolta and Olivia Newton John held the number one spot for nine weeks, which is why this happened on Top of the Pops. But at least The Rats got to number one because people actually liked them and their song, not through self-appointed music Nazis telling the record buyers that this is what it was cool to like.
I've never even seen Glee and from what I've heard about it, I don't want to. But I don't care if it is at 1, 2, 4 and 9 or whatever, in 1978's Grease mania there was still room for Buzzcocks, Abba, Boney M, all manner of disco singles and even country music - neither Glee nor Grease suddenly wipes out all other music.

Mind you, you have to see it from Ellie Goulding's point of view, looking at the new charts, it must be tough being denied a place in the Top 62 by all this Glee nonsense.
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Old 18-01-2010, 22:19
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oh surely that disaster glee isnt releasing a song ?
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Old 18-01-2010, 23:12
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I remember 1978, and the charts were packed full of Grease songs. Not the lower reaches either, they were something like 1, 2, 4 and 9 at one point I think. John Travolta and Olivia Newton John held the number one spot for nine weeks, which is why this happened on Top of the Pops. But at least The Rats got to number one because people actually liked them and their song, not through self-appointed music Nazis telling the record buyers that this is what it was cool to like.
I've never even seen Glee and from what I've heard about it, I don't want to. But I don't care if it is at 1, 2, 4 and 9 or whatever, in 1978's Grease mania there was still room for Buzzcocks, Abba, Boney M, all manner of disco singles and even country music - neither Glee nor Grease suddenly wipes out all other music.

Mind you, you have to see it from Ellie Goulding's point of view, looking at the new charts, it must be tough being denied a place in the Top 62 by all this Glee nonsense.
I remember when the BTR's appeared on TOTP with "Rat trap" at number 1. Mr Geldof ripped a Grease poster magazine in two at the beginning of the song!
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Old 18-01-2010, 23:15
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Uhh there is no campaign, she was just saying, you're reading too much into it, idiots should stop taking it to heart and Jon Morter isnt involved with it at all, his kids like Glee anyway.
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Old 18-01-2010, 23:19
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Uhh there is no campaign, she was just saying, you're reading too much into it, idiots should stop taking it to heart and Jon Morter isnt involved with it at all, his kids like Glee anyway.
Should people stop reading too much into things, DS would become redundant.
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