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Old 20-12-2015, 22:57
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I don't really follow the charts anymore. However it's the last Sunday before Christmas, which always used to be the day that the weekly charts were released. I have had a look and there seems to be so many different charts these days. Don't know which one it would be.

As I said I don't really follow the charts anymore as I can't stand modern music but I take a vague interest in the Christmas number 1 still.
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Old 20-12-2015, 23:13
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The charts are now announced on a Friday (they've moved it there as that's now the global release day for new music) so the Christmas Day chart will be announced on the big day itself.
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Old 20-12-2015, 23:22
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The charts are now announced on a Friday (they've moved it there as that's now the global release day for new music) so the Christmas Day chart will be announced on the big day itself.
Seems pointless to announce it on a Friday, who listens to the charts then. Most people are at work or School then. No wonder people say the charts are dying, no-one listens to it anymore. I suppose the Chart rundown show will go the way of TOTP shortly.
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Old 20-12-2015, 23:26
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Seems pointless to announce it on a Friday, who listens to the charts then. Most people are at work or School then. No wonder people say the charts are dying, no-one listens to it anymore. I suppose the Chart rundown show will go the way of TOTP shortly.
I feel sorry for present day pop pickers...............not 'arf !
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Old 20-12-2015, 23:31
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I don't really follow the charts anymore. However it's the last Sunday before Christmas, which always used to be the day that the weekly charts were released. I have had a look and there seems to be so many different charts these days. Don't know which one it would be.

As I said I don't really follow the charts anymore as I can't stand modern music but I take a vague interest in the Christmas number 1 still.
You may be horrified to know that the Christmas No1 is the St Winifred's School Choir with There's No One Quite Like Grandma. Well it is for those of us in BBC4 world.

My money is on the Human League for next year.
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Old 20-12-2015, 23:32
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Have listening figures gone down then? I listen to the chart every week now at work and never listened to it on Sunday
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Old 20-12-2015, 23:34
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When I were a lass the charts were announced on a Tuesday so that the new number one could be on Top of the Pops AND the chart run down on the following Sunday.
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Old 21-12-2015, 00:15
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Because nobody cares?
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Old 21-12-2015, 08:56
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Nice hear to that the x factor winner only got to #9, to be fair now though the charts really mean nothing anymore.
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Old 21-12-2015, 10:21
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Nice hear to that the x factor winner only got to #9, to be fair now though the charts really mean nothing anymore.
Bit of a sweeping statement, they may not count to you by the certainly count to some and well you know the actually industry. If your talking on a meta level then no they don't mean a jot a chart placement is not indicative of quality .
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Old 21-12-2015, 12:47
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Nice hear to that the x factor winner only got to #9, to be fair now though the charts really mean nothing anymore.
XF can't even score one-hit wonders any more. I'd prefer the charity single (NHS choir) to win but fear the kiddies will ensure that Bieber gets it.
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Old 21-12-2015, 12:59
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Seems pointless to announce it on a Friday, who listens to the charts then. Most people are at work or School then. No wonder people say the charts are dying, no-one listens to it anymore. I suppose the Chart rundown show will go the way of TOTP shortly.
They moved the chart to a Friday because global new release day is now Friday instead of Sunday/Monday. And I imagine now the chart is on Greg James' "drivetime" slot it's probably getting more listeners than it was on Sunday.
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Old 21-12-2015, 13:14
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When I were a lass the charts were announced on a Tuesday so that the new number one could be on Top of the Pops AND the chart run down on the following Sunday.
Yes, but that was when the sales figures were counted upto close of play Saturday, then the chart was announced on the Tuesday so by the time the 'top 40' was played the following Sunday it was eight days old by that point!
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Old 21-12-2015, 13:14
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When I were a lass the charts were announced on a Tuesday so that the new number one could be on Top of the Pops AND the chart run down on the following Sunday.
12:45 Tuesday lunchtimes at school with a radio pressed to an ear listening to Johnnie Walker play the new top five with the full top twenty rundown just before one.

Happy days.
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Old 21-12-2015, 13:21
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Yes, but that was when the sales figures were counted upto close of play Saturday, then the chart was announced on the Tuesday so by the time the 'top 40' was played the following Sunday it was eight days old by that point!
Not really. As there was no Sunday trading. Record shops final sales returns were sent on Saturday night to be counted on Monday (the start of the new chart week) which would be finalised on Tuesday morning and released "officially" at 12:00.

That gave the chance for Music week to publish them the following day and the bookrs to get the acts sorted for Top of the Pops on Thursday.

But yes, by he time Tom Browne played the chart in full on Sunday (fingers on the cassette/radio record buttons everyone) it was an "old chart" and the new one was about to be calculated.
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Old 21-12-2015, 14:19
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Not really. As there was no Sunday trading. Record shops final sales returns were sent on Saturday night to be counted on Monday (the start of the new chart week) which would be finalised on Tuesday morning and released "officially" at 12:00.

That gave the chance for Music week to publish them the following day and the bookrs to get the acts sorted for Top of the Pops on Thursday.

But yes, by he time Tom Browne played the chart in full on Sunday (fingers on the cassette/radio record buttons everyone) it was an "old chart" and the new one was about to be calculated.
Who's he when he's at 'ome?
Surely you mean 'Fluff' Freeman or, at a stretch, Tony Blackburn.
I, too, remember the chart coming out on Tuesdays and being played in full the following Sunday, and it didn't matter a jot that it was 5 days old. Life didn't have to belt along at 100 miles an hour in those days. We weren't all waiting for the next thing to happen.
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Old 21-12-2015, 18:26
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I really hope NHS choir knock beiber off number 1. Im sick to the back teeth of beiber. He shouldn't be on the charts. His music - although you could say is improved from his early days - is still lousy.

If not for James Arthur he would be the absolute scrote of the music world.
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Old 21-12-2015, 18:27
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Have they moved the chart run down from Sunday to Friday to accomodate the unemployed 18-24's before party time?
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Old 22-12-2015, 00:30
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I really hope NHS choir knock beiber off number 1. Im sick to the back teeth of beiber. He shouldn't be on the charts. His music - although you could say is improved from his early days - is still lousy.

If not for James Arthur he would be the absolute scrote of the music world.
"I don't like an artist and that means no one else should"
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Old 22-12-2015, 19:21
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XF can't even score one-hit wonders any more. I'd prefer the charity single (NHS choir) to win but fear the kiddies will ensure that Bieber gets it.
Until this morning I thought Justin Bieber may have had it in the bag...but it seems Chris Evans has now got involved and has been championing the NHS Choir on his Radio 2 breakfast show and I believe they were there to perform the song.

Since this morning, their charity single has leapt ahead of Bieber and could possibly be the Xmas #1 after all. It'll have a hilarious plummet down the chart though from next week. It'll have dropped out of the top 40 by middle of January whilst Love Yourself will more than likely still be in the top 5.
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Old 23-12-2015, 13:21
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Is this the first year the xmas number one will be announced on xmas day?
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Old 23-12-2015, 14:35
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Is this the first year the xmas number one will be announced on xmas day?
No. Xmas has being on sundays too in the past
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Old 23-12-2015, 15:21
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The charts, including Xmas No.1, are simply no longer relevant.

Not since the 90's have they mattered.
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Old 23-12-2015, 16:57
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Perhaps the record companies haven't finalised all their bribery just yet.
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Old 23-12-2015, 17:11
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So if the chart is on Christmas Day, does that mean there are actually two Christmas Number 1 songs? Because surely the song that already holds the Number 1 spot before the chart is counted down at whatever time on Christmas Day should also count as a Christmas Number 1? After all, that will be the song that is at the top of the charts when we wake up on December 25th.
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