Who is number one this week?

[anonymous-user]

The music charts used to be a big deal!
As an old git, who used to record the charts on a cassette tape on a Sunday night, Microphone in front of the speakers
No cheating, who is number one this week?
I bet nobody knows or cares , quite sad really..

[Fantuzzi]

Last time I looked it was Happy by Pharrell, not sure now.

Still think it is a big deal, but this forum isn't really Radio 1s demographic...

[robsa]

it really isn't a big deal any more. At certain times of the year you can get to number one selling 20,000 copies apparently...

[anonymous-user]

Very true, but I bet it's not a big deal to young people too!

[Condi]

Part of the reason for that is surely there is SO MUCH music around?

You can now access everything from hip-hop to folk, to drum and bass, to bollywood, all from any phone, computer or whatever. People will go and listen to the music they enjoy, rather than listening to the radio and whatever is forced down their necks.

[Fantuzzi]

Condi said:

Part of the reason for that is surely there is SO MUCH music around?

You can now access everything from hip-hop to folk, to drum and bass, to bollywood, all from any phone, computer or whatever. People will go and listen to the music they enjoy, rather than listening to the radio and whatever is forced down their necks.

I was going to say this, if you look at the charts from some years go there was an awful lot more variety, now you get Pop which is normally a mix of rap/r and b, and your normal bubblegum stuff, you get a bit of variety from the artic monkeys, but that's because they managed to sneak in through the indie phase.

[Talksteer]

Fantuzzi said:

Condi said:

Part of the reason for that is surely there is SO MUCH music around?

You can now access everything from hip-hop to folk, to drum and bass, to bollywood, all from any phone, computer or whatever. People will go and listen to the music they enjoy, rather than listening to the radio and whatever is forced down their necks.

I was going to say this, if you look at the charts from some years go there was an awful lot more variety, now you get Pop which is normally a mix of rap/r and b, and your normal bubblegum stuff, you get a bit of variety from the artic monkeys, but that's because they managed to sneak in through the indie phase.

The other issue is that music has much less of an ability to separate generations. I'm in my thirties and I like Jimmy Hendrix, my dad saw him live in the 1960s.

I would be very surprised if my dad liked any music his dad liked when he was 20 in the 1930s.

Likewise the teenagers of today are going to find it very difficult to shock their parents who listened to the Prodigy or Napalm Death.... except with their poor taste.

The youth appear to like Status Quo as cheese music at the moment.....

[Condi]

Fantuzzi said:

Condi said:

Part of the reason for that is surely there is SO MUCH music around?

You can now access everything from hip-hop to folk, to drum and bass, to bollywood, all from any phone, computer or whatever. People will go and listen to the music they enjoy, rather than listening to the radio and whatever is forced down their necks.

I was going to say this, if you look at the charts from some years go there was an awful lot more variety, now you get Pop which is normally a mix of rap/r and b, and your normal bubblegum stuff, you get a bit of variety from the artic monkeys, but that's because they managed to sneak in through the indie phase.

And yet im sat here listening on youtube to some wonderful deep house mixes which 30 years ago you wouldnt have been able to access. They are made by producers who 30 years ago wouldnt hardly have been able to make the music, let alone publish it in a format which anyone round the world can listen to for free whenever they want.

Music at the moment is in the most vibrant and exciting time in it's history, you just have to look a little more carefully to see it. The charts per say are no longer important, even some of the more specialist ones. Beatport chart used to be pretty big, but there are so many sub-genres within the electronic music scene that even that is losing its importance.

[Fantuzzi]

Condi said:

Fantuzzi said:

Condi said:

Part of the reason for that is surely there is SO MUCH music around?

You can now access everything from hip-hop to folk, to drum and bass, to bollywood, all from any phone, computer or whatever. People will go and listen to the music they enjoy, rather than listening to the radio and whatever is forced down their necks.

I was going to say this, if you look at the charts from some years go there was an awful lot more variety, now you get Pop which is normally a mix of rap/r and b, and your normal bubblegum stuff, you get a bit of variety from the artic monkeys, but that's because they managed to sneak in through the indie phase.

And yet im sat here listening on youtube to some wonderful deep house mixes which 30 years ago you wouldnt have been able to access. They are made by producers who 30 years ago wouldnt hardly have been able to make the music, let alone publish it in a format which anyone round the world can listen to for free whenever they want.

Music at the moment is in the most vibrant and exciting time in it's history, you just have to look a little more carefully to see it. The charts per say are no longer important, even some of the more specialist ones. Beatport chart used to be pretty big, but there are so many sub-genres within the electronic music scene that even that is losing its importance.

I was referring purely to the charts, as a whole its far better to be a music fan now than any other time in history.