Robbie
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Post by Robbie on Aug 22, 2018 10:01:36 GMT 1
That the last ever regular edition of The Chart Show was broadcast. I was going to include a video of the final top 10 countdown but it looks like it once again has been taken off YouTube. It never seems to stay up for very long.
By the 90s The Chart Show was my favourite music programme. Top Of The Pops had become dull and I much preferred the format of The Chart Show. Sadly, ITV buying the rights to F1 motor racing meant the programme was being shunted around Saturday mornings in the mid 90s and viewing figures fell dramatically. Eventually ITV decided to pull the plug and instead of The Chart Show from 29 August 1998 we had SM:TV / CD:UK with Ant and Dec and Cat Deeley. It was not the same though it was a ratings winner.
Most people forget that the programme was revived by Channel 4 in 2003 and then on Chart Show TV music channel in 2008 and 2009. Both revivals weren't a success.
There was another Chart Show style TV programme which used to be shown overnight on Sky One in the late 90s and early 2000s called Long Play which played a mixture of various genre charts and oldie videos. A Top 20 Singles chart (compiled I believe by MRIB) featured most nights. Does anyone remember this, assuming you had access to Sky TV at the time. Again that programme was dropped when Sky One began to broadcast 24 hour programming.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Aug 22, 2018 11:58:10 GMT 1
Cant say I remember it Robbie but then I was 13, I was more the target market for SM:TV / CD:UK which at the time thought was amazing
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Post by o on Aug 22, 2018 12:56:39 GMT 1
The Chart Show was great, because it featured genre charts and so played a wide range of music styles, CD UK came in, and gradually phased out indie and rock stuff to anything that made the girls scream!
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 22, 2018 17:30:01 GMT 1
... Those were the days .... My favourite specialist charts were by far the Indie Charts .... Time for a countdown .... see if you can spot the spelling error, and a clip of the (superior) original version of a song subsequent rerecorded which was far more successful ....
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Post by Smurfie on Aug 24, 2018 0:15:06 GMT 1
Thanks to the Chart Show bands like Drop Nineteens, Madder Rose, Lush, Belly, would have completely passed me by.
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Post by Smurfie on Aug 24, 2018 0:17:58 GMT 1
Or in fact Shamen. They were in the Indie chart first - but then so was Kylie because of PWL.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 26, 2018 20:47:53 GMT 1
This might have been my most important Chart Show rundown ever...
...because it was my first glimpse of the act at no. 3.
Back in the days when The Chart Show was on Channel 4. And in two halves. They used to have a half-hour programme in the middle. Only one I can remember is Neat & Tidy, a forgotten buddy detective show, with the twist being that Tidy was Tena Tidy, one of the hottest woman I have ever seen (Jill Whitlow).
You could always tell which tracks they'd play, because the bit in the rundown would be from the beginning of the track, rather than the middle...
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