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BBC Launches Downloaded Music Charts
PReDiToR writes "The BBC today aired its first chart rundown of downloaded music. 'The Official UK Download Chart is based on the most popular, legally downloaded tracks in the UK. It's compiled from the sale of permanently owned single track downloads and doesn't include streamed downloads, subscriptions or free downloads.' The Chart played on Radio 1, the UK's most listened to station, and will be a regular feature."
I RTA earlier, but IIRC Radio 2 is the most listened to radio station in the UK, not Radio 1.
Yes I know, nitpick alert... but the subject matter is relating to chart positions :-)
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Um. Strictly accurately, there is! He's a DJ on radio-1, and there's a 'play live' music button :-)
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"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Try the "listen" link on the Radio 1 page, there is a Real download which happily plays through RealAlternative.
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This new download chart is from the same place, so can be considered official as far at the UK industry and music fans will be concerned.
On top of that it is compiled from multiple online music stores, and will presumably be monitored for abuse by any company trying to manipulate the result, just as the main chart is.
Until the number of legal downloads FAR surpasses illegal ones, I will get my info from that list
Yeah, they entertain. They wouldn't claim anything else. They come from a shit town, and they take the piss out of it, themselves, and anyone else that strays near. They've been making records for years, giving them to their mates, having a laugh.
Now the media has picked up on the comedy (and genius), so they get their moment of fame. I think they're pretty realistic about it though. As they say, they're out for a laugh, they fully expect to be back working the tills in supermarkets before long.
They're fucking funny though. If you don't knows it, download some of their stuff, it's funny as fuck. Their website is http://www.youknowsit.co.uk/.
I've been using iRATE for a little over a year now, and have downloaded about a thousand tracks with it. If I were a typical user, then that would suggest that iRATE users all together have downloaded about fifteen million songs, thus far surpassing iTunes' puny one million download total.
Now, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Some of iRATE's downloads were existing users fetching updates, and not everyone who uses it keeps using it. But it clearly shows that free, legal downloads are potentially dwarfing the paid downloads being tracked by the BBC.
Note that the RIAA doesn't get a penny from iRATE's downloads. They can't complain either, because the copyright holders - the musicians themselved - give permission to us to download their tracks when they post them on MP3 hosting services like the Internet Underground Music Archive.
I discuss not only iRATE but a lot of other places to get free music downloads in my article Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads. Share the link with all your buddies who use p2p.
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Radio one DJs don't choose their own tracks, for this very reason. They have a play list, and other people choose what music is to be played when. You can view the current playlist at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/playlist/alist.s html
If the people who choose the playlist are bribed or not is a different matter, the acusation you just made is libelous.
Yeah right! For the sake of our national dignity I would like to point out that radio one is only the third most listened to BBC station: Source rajar