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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. Wouldn't it be cool by shfted! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wouldn't it be cool to link such a list to bittorrent for automatic downloading? That way, you'd get fresh music that's supposedly good every day. I'd love it. And it would be user selected music -- not the crap the recording industry feels like feeding us this week.

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    1. Re:Wouldn't it be cool by rooijan · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Personally I don't think manufactured necessarily equates to bad. What gets me is that to have a successful pop career (where pop is things like Britney, Avril etc) you have to be attractive and sexy. Ever seen an ugly *pop* star? Would most pop survive on the radio, without sex-on-TV music videos to back it up?

      Some other genres of music (hard rock, metal, jazz etc) do not rely on attractive people to make it sell, they rely on good music.

      Having said that, I listen to and enjoy many pop tunes. However, what I also object to is the fact that media and listeners give the singer all the credit for the song. All the singer did is sing (and occasionally an effect is even added, presumably because they can't even sing that well). Why aren't we crediting the people who wrote the music, the people who played their instruments etc.?

      I know that a solo musician's band is hardly ever credited and it has been this way for decades, but IMHO it is becoming more and more prevalent and very annoying. At least most solo musicians of the 60's, 70's and some of them in the 80's wrote their own songs (or wote most of them at least).

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  2. Something more interesting... by ElForesto · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... would be a list of the most-downloaded songs that weren't paid for. You could compare that to this list and see which songs are actually worth buying.

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  3. Chart Inflation by xombo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This will help online music sales in the long run but it will cause the same effect as "top sellers" in the CD market. Of course they're top sellers and they will continue to be since they're the most played music on the radio. That's why radio stations should promote new and notable artists instead of the same crap we've heard for the last three months, maybe that would help artists and encourage a better rotation on the air waves.

  4. Meanwhile by jb.hl.com · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All sensible people use Audioscrobbler and get their charts. They take into account what people listen to and not what they buy, meaning that it is less skewed towards teenyboppers and one hit wonders (which have low replay values) and fairer towards good bands.

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  5. Re:A Hit Chart... by Infonaut · · Score: 4, Interesting
    every other band that matters

    Including the only band that mattered.

    The British impact on popular music over the last fifty years is arguably greater than that of any country in the world, including the US.

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