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  • 09-12-2008 11:46pm
    #1
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/documentaries/riseandfallofthecharts.shtml

    Here's the first of two Documentaries on the history of the charts.

    It gives a history of how the charts worked across the decades, figures like 250,000 sales on one day for a UK single are mentioned!

    It refers the UK/US charts.

    Unlike now the charts were IT when I was a boy, Top of the Pops couldn't be missed!

    I recall seeing U2 on it for I think their first time with Gloria (again, I think!) and it was a major major event for our perception of them as fans.

    Very interesting!


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  • #2
    Neurojazz
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    I'm not going to drop any names, but here's a horror story.

    An act released a track through a certain large label.
    It went onto the shelves and sold 40k units in 3 days. The charts were due to be calculated on thursday, the certain large label then deleted the track on the wednesday and re-released it immediately so the sales only showed those initial 40k units sold for the chart on that thursday - chart rigging b******s!


  • #3
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    Neurojazz wrote: »
    I'm not going to drop any names, but here's a horror story.

    An act released a track through a certain large label.
    It went onto the shelves and sold 40k units in 3 days. The charts were due to be calculated on thursday, the certain large label then deleted the track on the wednesday and re-released it immediately so the sales only showed those initial 40k units sold for the chart on that thursday - chart rigging b******s!

    I don't understand?


  • #4
    tweeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭tweeky


    PaulBrewer wrote: »

    I recall seeing U2 on it for I think their first time with Gloria (again, I think!) and it was a major major event for our perception of them as fans.

    Very interesting!

    I think it was "Fire" which wasn't one of their best, plus with Bono looking like he was picking fleas out of his hair it went on record as one of the only times a band dropped chart placings after an appearance.


  • #5
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    tweeky wrote: »
    I think it was "Fire" which wasn't one of their best, plus with Bono looking like he was picking fleas out of his hair it went on record as one of the only times a band dropped chart placings after an appearance.

    Ah yes! I do recall the 'dropping' story now you mention.


  • #6
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    The second of this 2 piece show is up now. It's right up to date with some very interesting facts.


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  • #7
    Seziertisch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Seziertisch


    I know of a group of lads that were distributing through EMI. They had a single out which was getting a lot a airplay (single of the week on Zane Lowe etc.). Then EMI only printed up and distributed about 600 copies of the single on the week it was released. There were 10 copies in HMV on Picadilly Circus. They were all sold by 11 am on Monday morning on the back of the airplay it had been getting. There were no others forthcoming. Shafted.


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