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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 12, 2012 19:01:22 GMT 1
It was the magic of the way the British music industry and media was like back then - they played all sorts of music. We always blamed the Americans for having radio stations that only played one genre.
Unfortunately the UK has gone pretty much the same way now. True that Cilla Black was past it by 1977 but the fact they can have her on TOTP immediately followed by the Sex Pistols was what made our music industry so good and allowed punk to happen as they could play it without having to put it on an alternative station where nobody was listening, or put nothing else on such that people who weren't used to it would just switch off.
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 12, 2012 19:02:36 GMT 1
looks like the two threads have been merged
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Post by o on Aug 12, 2012 20:05:37 GMT 1
Give that guy a coconut. I thought it made sense. I agree about our radio stations now only playing certain types of music, I listened to the radio going to and from Mansfield, 150 miles, I must have changed channel about 50 times, because of either ads, or just banal chatter. Hallam used to play a good selection of music, but even that seems to have been capitolised now
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2012 21:37:42 GMT 1
I remember when we used to be proud of our charts, even on forums a few years ago we used to say our charts were much better than the Billboard one. Now our charts are just as bad!
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 12, 2012 22:28:55 GMT 1
I blame George Ergatoudis. Radio 1 is meant to play groundbreaking music. Instead this week's A-list includes the likes of Little Mix, Drake and Trey Songz, who couldn't be groundbreaking if you pushed them from a plane at 40,000 feet. And who wouldn't?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 18:46:23 GMT 1
I blame George Ergatoudis. Radio 1 is meant to play groundbreaking music. Instead this week's A-list includes the likes of Little Mix, Drake and Trey Songz, who couldn't be groundbreaking if you pushed them from a plane at 40,000 feet. And who wouldn't? i also blame cherry picking of album tracks, which is the main reason for the decline in album sales. I'm fine with old tracks being included but it should be OLD SINGLES (not singles taken from comps/artist albums, actual old singles), the singles chart today is basically a tracks chart!
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Post by Earl Purple on Aug 13, 2012 20:27:19 GMT 1
Artists should write better albums then if they want people to buy all the tracks.
I don't think that is the reason though. The kind of music I usually call "real" music do generally sell more albums than the manufactured boy/girl acts. During the late 90s, even the Spice Girls didn't sell as many albums as Oasis and the Verve.
However, hit singles promote albums and always have. If you don't promote the singles, people won't discover the artists and won't buy the albums.
Also, when you refer to declining sales, remember that total sales doesn't always equate to sales of the top of the charts. Look at how many sales it requires to be #40 compared to how many it used to.
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Post by suedehead on Aug 13, 2012 21:44:56 GMT 1
Promoting a single requires radio airplay and interest from broadcasters. Two Door Cinema Club may be able to promote their singles on 6Music, and XFM but that's hardly the same as One Direction being able to get publicity from Radio 1, Capital's stations and, probably, ITV and BBC television.
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Post by o on Sept 13, 2012 16:06:52 GMT 1
Is this still on as v plus has not recorded it for a while
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Post by suedehead on Sept 13, 2012 16:11:53 GMT 1
It's been on Wednesday while the Proms were on but is back to Thursday from tonight. It wasn't on at all last week because of Sky At Night. I though V+ was supposed to be able to handle that. My Tivo box (also from Virgin) certainly does.
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Post by o on Sept 13, 2012 16:54:05 GMT 1
My v plus is ok sometimes and utter rubbish others. I put a series record in, and it records for one week, and then doesn't record any more, I always check it is recording them! I'll check it's recording tonight, ta.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2012 17:21:26 GMT 1
I blame George Ergatoudis. Radio 1 is meant to play groundbreaking music. Instead this week's A-list includes the likes of Little Mix, Drake and Trey Songz, who couldn't be groundbreaking if you pushed them from a plane at 40,000 feet. And who wouldn't? i also blame cherry picking of album tracks, which is the main reason for the decline in album sales. I'm fine with old tracks being included but it should be OLD SINGLES (not singles taken from comps/artist albums, actual old singles), the singles chart today is basically a tracks chart! Well said, when the rules changed 5 years ago, it was 99 percent singles, but as time went by its saturated to a tracks chart. These rules have encourage people to fire up iTunes, wack in a password and get the track sent down to them knowing their purchase can make a chart entry if a campaign is going on. This has made it slowly over the past 5 years the tracks chart it is now. The real SINGLES chart died on December 31st 2006 as far as I am concerned, as 2007 was not when it was not totally a singles listing 100 percent. As for these TOTP reruns, I was appalled they shown Gary Glitter on there once, am suprised the BBC did not get enough complaints for the media to take notice, if any at all. When are we going to move into the 80's?, they have covered the 70's for quite some time now.
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Post by o on Sept 13, 2012 21:26:10 GMT 1
So have they shown the ep with Way Down when Elvis died? Did I miss it, or have they not shown it?
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Post by o on Sept 13, 2012 21:28:39 GMT 1
If Donna Summer is #1, we're still in August and a few weeks behind real time?
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Post by suedehead on Sept 13, 2012 21:32:59 GMT 1
Elvis died two days before next week's programme was broadcast.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2012 22:42:41 GMT 1
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Post by suedehead on Sept 13, 2012 23:12:36 GMT 1
The reply to a letter in next week's Radio Times is that the BBC have no immediate plans to continue into 1978 but that the decision is being kept under review. Maybe the reply was worded that way as an attempt to see whether it provoked a flood of requests for them to continue.
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Post by o on Sept 14, 2012 8:02:02 GMT 1
At a time when they need to save money, surely repeats are a good thing, especially at that time of night, where do I write to/email to get them to continue? I'm waiting for the 80s to come around!
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Post by smokeyb on Sept 14, 2012 20:42:06 GMT 1
It would be a shame if they stop at the end of 1977, as 76 & 77 were pretty bad musically, whereas from 78 onwards things got a lot better. Younger people looking at the 2 years already shown would no doubt shake their heads at the amount of dross currently in the charts then. I have been waiting for 2 years till we got to 78 & 79.
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Post by suedehead on Sept 14, 2012 21:46:43 GMT 1
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