Is it the last year for "old good" UK chart ?

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The domination of streaming in the singles chart is not a surprise for some last years, but streaming already got more than 60 % in the albums chart and overall album sales broke the lowest sales record very often in the last year.

What do you think about the future of music charts ? Is it only streaming or one day good sales will coming back ?
At least UK still have sales only chart, but 11k for # 1 in singles and 15k in albums are a total joke in comparison with the past glory days.

P. S. : "old good" means sales based charts.

[TheThorne]

No and I think streaming is starting to level off, in that the top 40 is not so far ahead of the rest of the chart. the difference between 100, 75 and 40 is not so much now, that I think we will get more hits each week. And anyway have you looked at the sales chart, it really isn't that different, it has a few random entries that don't make the main chart but otherwise it is basically the same music.

I just want more hits and variety and not 3 new songs a week, with the same songs staying in the chart for months because people cant move on, the public seem to be moving on more certainly outwith the top 20 which is great. How much of this is the public decisions or based on playlists well that's another discussion.

Download sales are only going one way and that's down  but they will be included as long as they are available and they do a serve a purpose in that it flags Spotify into seeing which songs could take off so they will add them to playlists.

Also that 11K is small because of the alternatives remember we had number ones in 2003 which sold that and we didn't even have streaming and legal downloading wasn't really a thing yet. Do you know what 59000 streaming points is thats about 9 million streams out of a population of 60 million that's pretty impressive certainly for January. Of course makes you wonder how many illegal downloads Orson- No Tomorrow had for example but we will never know.