I'm only 31 and an avid user of the internet so this isn't a grumpy old man rant about the 'good old days' but when I was in my late teens, early 20s I used to listen to the charts every week (with Mark Goodyear of course) and used to look forward to who would be number one that week, who had gone up and who had gone down etc but I haven't done that since they changed the format to include internet downloads.
Whilst I recognise someone buying a song on iTunes is a valid sale I don't like the way that any song in existence can at any point get to number one now. An advert comes on telly using some song from the 70s and suddenly it's back in the top 10 despite not being re-released.
I miss the old chart where the only songs that counted were the ones out at that time and where you knew each CD had been bought because someone made the effort to go out and buy it and not just download it for 99p of iTunes from their phone.
Anyone else miss the old way the chart worked?
Whilst I recognise someone buying a song on iTunes is a valid sale I don't like the way that any song in existence can at any point get to number one now. An advert comes on telly using some song from the 70s and suddenly it's back in the top 10 despite not being re-released.
I miss the old chart where the only songs that counted were the ones out at that time and where you knew each CD had been bought because someone made the effort to go out and buy it and not just download it for 99p of iTunes from their phone.
Anyone else miss the old way the chart worked?



