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BBC Launches Downloaded Music Charts

Posted by michael on from the casey-casum dept.

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."

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  1. Good Statistic?? by artlu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can this be a reasonably good statistic? Most of the music that I listen to online either comes from online radio stations, Poisoned (mac app), or iTunes. What clout would this have over any other song statistics?

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  2. Re:A Hit Chart... by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...as well as The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and every other band that matters.

  3. More Information by Feneric · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would be nice if they posted a bit more info. Like for example exactly how the figures are tabulated -- is it a straight weekly sum, or are past results worked in somehow either through strict accumulation or a weighted average... Furthermore, do audio books get tossed into the mix (not that one is apt to win)? It would also be neat to see what formats people were downloading the music in.

  4. Re:A Hit Chart... by dpfau · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not to mention The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Clash, The Smiths...

    I can keep going.

  5. I wonder... by jmcmunn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how long it takes for music companies or artists to artifically inflate the "legal downloads" of their music so that people think it is "popular" when they hear it on the radio on the Top 20.

    And of course once it is "popular" people will start buying it to see what the fuss is about, thus selling more. Maybe I'm just a skeptic, but it seems like another way to get the same stuff to sell even more. Oh well.