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UK To Get Music Download Chart
theOtherFool writes "The Observer reported today that BBC Radio One is to broadcast a chart of legally downloaded music. This is a big deal because the station is the broadcaster of pop music for our sceptered isle; it legitimises downloading and seems to show that the industry (or at least the BPI, our equivalent of the RIAA) is starting to accept it, rather than ignoring it and hoping it might go away."
If you read the article, you'll notice that the chart is based on paid downloads (ie iTunes). They are not using P2P network stats. This is just as vulnerable to astroturfing as retail sales charts are.
No; the radio industry (particularly the American radio industry) cares about making money. Yes but the BBC is not funded by adverts. It is funded by a licence fee of about 110 per year from anybody with a TV. However radio 1 still sounds the same as any other station during the day. Its only during the evening when they have specialist shows that they are any differant.
the broadcaster of pop music for our sceptered isle
I fail to believe that this poster is British. We have lots of pop music stations.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Likewise, Clear Channel owns a lot of outdoor billboards here in the USA. Usually, they like to collect billboards in the same cities that they own radio stations so that the same sales team can sell both to the same customers in a joint presentation.
People do listen to/buy a lot of older stuff. Actually they mostly listen to Radiohead. Look here or here.