I'm 15 and give me The Beatles, Dylan, Brian Wilson, Bowie, Chuck Berry, Solo-Beatles, Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Led Zeppelin, Simon and Garfunkel, AC/DC, Clapton any day over the current chart music. Your not old you just (in my opinion) have good taste. The best music these days i feel is indie music

the charts have(or should have) little relevance when the contraption you're reading this on can connect you to virtually any form of music you care to think of. they're a marketing tool, completely manipulated & should be scrapped immediately.

I'm 20 and I've been this way for years now. I often go into pubs/clubs and annoy my friends, asking them what every song is (I forget the answers almost instantly)

38 And I aint got a clue who in the top ten, I asked my kids who are 19, 17, 13 and they dont even have a clue whos number one. My 13 year old does know that Justin beiber is number 7 but she a 13 year old girl, who I could bet on knowing where all the "cute to a 13 yearold" boys singer are. But most of the time they are al like me and use the net to find different bands etc that are not main stream.

It just feels so empty and emotionless to me. While, in time, the music videos get a LOT better, the music itself gets a LOT more bland. I've never really understood the charts. I'm not saying good music isn't released. I don't know what I'm saying actually.

People say "Rose-tinted glasses", "happy memories" and all of that nonsense, but even 60's music I find more entertaining. I'm only 21 after all. Even my cousin (who shouldn't have been playing Vice City as he was 11 at the time) loves 80's music more and tends to jump the charts as it is "boring", even now. I just don't understand.

I must be the only 16 year old who still likes chart music by the look of it
I love Lady Gaga etc.

I don't really like most of the 'indie' music but some of its not to mad , Bat for Lashes , Ladyhawke are pretty good but thats about it , most of it sounds the same to me , just dull guys playing the same tired guitar chords ....

Im 20 and haven't liked chart music since I was about 12 and Kylie was no. 1 with cant get you out of my head

My gf tries to get me into lady gaga etc but although her videos/costumes are interesting and creative, the music sadly isn't. I prefer either older music, or newer 'obscure' stuff most people havent heard of, but each to their own.

Im 26.. Im trying to like what's in the charts.. but it really is BAD at the moment.. Its all imported American music.. theres no decent British scene. RnB isnt a British thing but is being forced fed everyone.. how can most people in this country seriously relate to that stuff???

Current chart music is pish.

R'n'B sucks.
Boy/Girl bands are all sh!te.
Gaga is garbage.

70's/80's all the way.

Most of what's in the chart is crap, so I wouldn't worry. I'm 22 and I prefer listening to more obscure singers and bands from the 80s.

I'm 20 and ive completely gone off the whole Chart Music scene i found my self going off it in mid 2007 when it all became Bland Boring and too Urban/R&B for my liking

Shame i used to like alot of tracks that hit the Pop & Dance Charts from the 90's to 2007.

These days i enjoy the Underground Electronic Scene it's soo much better and i still like listening to the older chart tracks i enjoyed from years ago so its probably me getting old or it's just that im not the only one here who thinks today's music is kinda awful.

It doesn't get any better. I am older than the lot of you and, with one notable exception, I couldn't give a toss for any of the music in the charts nowadays. The exception, of course, is Will Young.

I think it is the fault of the radio stations who are obsessed with being "cool"! Particularly Radio 1!

The format of the chart show doesn't help. It's full of texts from little girls going 'hey Reggie, blates, cor da Chipmunk shud deffo b number one he iz so cool and my mate Izzy fancies him ooooo!'
It makes you feel you've accidently wandered into the playground.
I do still hear new singles that I like. Currently the songs from Train and Goldfrapp are appealing to me, and everything from Delays is good. But it's irrelevant to me if they appear in the charts as I know they have no chance.

I don't know what's in the chart and i'm 35. But I don't think that music has stopped, I just like what I like and don't really care if it's in the charts (most of it probably isn't anyway!). I do sometimes check out the album charts though.

Well I haven't given a monkey's about the charts since about 1985!

For me the interesting stuff has always been under the radar and hence needs a bit of effort to find it. What does bother me as a music lover, and someone with (I like to think) an open mind, is that I'm not hearing ANY new acts that do anything for me at all.

I don't want to be one of these grumpy old f*rts, always moaning about how things were better in the olden times and young people these days don't know anything blah blah, but I'm sadly coming to the conclusion that the craft of writing and creating great records has been lost.

I'm 20 and like chart music but I also love 80s music and I love Abba (70s/80s). I also love looking for different music and finding new and unusual stuff and sometimes movie soundtracks have some good songs on them.

I'm 20 and I've just bought Queen's Greatest Hits...

I'd like to think of myself as someone who appreciates lots of different 'eras' and genres of music. I think there's a hell of a lot of shit in the charts these days, but I'm still very much aware of what's popular; and buy a fair amount of mainstream music too.

I really have no idea about what is in the charts etc. I could just fall asleep with boredom thinking about all that generic r n b inspired pop music with repetative hip hop style beats or whatever you can call it.

I do like modern music and some pop singers, im not completely against everything. Amy MacDonald is my current obsession and i feel proud to be a fan of someone who is different to most other female singers. Really anyone who can write a song themselves always get's my credit .....im just tired of all this computerized sounding music sung by singers who don't do anything but try and look sexy and can barley sing.

Im 24 btw.

I'm 14 and don't give a monkeys about what's in the charts... there's the ocassional song or two which I like but most of it is just blahh.

Unfortunately it makes it hard for me to talk about music with friends... they're normally just asking who the artists I like actually are.

I'm 45 and whizz through the Top 40 rundown on the music channel every so often to keep up to date. Usually there are about three songs I quite like. The rest are forgettable. Without sounding like a prude, why do the women feel they have to dress so scantily?

It is such a shame 15 year olds don't like the current chart - the music must be so limited compared to when I was 15.

In 1979, when I was 15, the chart was great - it had some naff songs too, and the album charts were good too. I would HAVE to get home to listen to the rundown on Sunday. It looks like the same chart is liked by 15 year olds today!

Most 15 year olds do like whats in the charts , it's just the pretentious little tw*ts that dont...

I'm 37 and I still love new music, but not chart music if that makes sense. Too much stuff like N-Dubz, Tinae Temper and other people that you're likely to hear blaring out of someone's mobile phone.

I couldn't even tell you what Justin Beiber, 3OH!3, Chipmunk and Daisy Dares You even sound like - I only know the names because I see the videos when I'm in the gym.

But some things should be for 'the kids' really. There must be nothing more embarrassing for a 14-15yo than knowing that someone twice your age likes the same sort of music that you do!

I'll stick to 6Music for my new music.

I have listened to the chart show once in the last 15 years and that was the Christmas just gone to see if mine and thousends of others hard work had paid off to get Rage Agaisint the Machine to the No.1 slot - which we did - managed to get tickets for them in june at the free gig - but to be honest I would never bother. The only Chart I pay any attention to is The Outlaw Anthems on Mike Davies's punk show on Radio 1 as it introduces me to a lot of underground acts from America or elsewhere I would simply never have heard of.

I am the same as you. I do not like any chart music. LOL

I'm 53 and I have a better idea of what is in the Drum&Bass charts.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/drumbass/


Proper music for proper folk.