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Post by mfr on Mar 12, 2016 0:32:52 GMT 1
I read the explanation of your chart years ago after you started posting on UKMix. Having had another look now it makes no more sense now than it did then. The official data from BMRB, Gallup, OCC, BPI, record companies etc does.
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Post by mfr on Mar 11, 2016 20:08:28 GMT 1
On the previous page Earl Purple asked where you got your charts from. I'd suggest he looks to the left-hand side of the screen beside your posts.
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Post by mfr on Mar 11, 2016 0:41:32 GMT 1
Why isn't it possible for the top 6 to be unchanged? It happened sometimes that, while some gaps closed up and others widened, in the end the order was the same.
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Post by mfr on Mar 10, 2016 22:21:41 GMT 1
It had nothing to do with the bank holiday. This edition of TOTP was based on the chart for the sales week leading up to the bank holiday, not the one containing it, the chart being announced on the Wednesday rather than the Tuesday.
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Post by mfr on Jun 17, 2015 15:32:28 GMT 1
"Kid" Jensen certainly would have been aware that the strike was coming. It must have been one of the most anticipated strikes ever to affect the BBC.
I can't remember all the details, if I ever knew them anyway, but I think the BBC's decision to axe 5 of its 11 in-house orchestras had been announced before the end of February 1980. The Musician's Union balloted its members for a possible strike to start on April 1st and they voted in favour of this action. The BBC offered talks to try to resolve the issue amicably and the MU postponed the start to May 1st.
Presumably these talks held out sufficient promise to persuade the MU to postpone the start again, to June 1st. There didn't seem to be a lot happening in May and the strike seemed inevitable. I expect I wasn't the only one counting down the weeks during May.
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Post by mfr on Jan 12, 2015 22:55:38 GMT 1
That one is definitely another odd one. The sales period for a December 30th 1978 chart would have been for the week ending Saturday December 23rd. It seems to make no sense not to have collected data for that week. If they were going to not collect data for a week it would make more sense to make it the week ending December 30th.
YMCA was also a million-seller though, so I do wonder if it might have overhauled Mary's Boy Child even in the run-up to Christmas. Also the country was affected by snow moving south from Scotland to the south coast during the period from December 28th to 30th, reaching the south coast on that Saturday afternoon of the 30th (while I was listening to the US year-end chart). Sales would have been low that week anyway, and bad weather hitting sales on the Friday and Saturday even more so.
But which scenario is correct is correct I don't know.
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Post by mfr on Jan 12, 2015 18:57:01 GMT 1
Dave Taylor told me that the January 5th 1980 chart should have been dated December 29th 1979, indicating the sales that were used for that chart were for week ending Saturday December 22nd. This was the case in quite a few other years including at Christmas 1974 as you have noted above. Cheers mfr. I had a feeling that the chart must have been based on sales prior to Christmas 1979. I wonder which other years in the 1970s (including the 05/01/80 chart) had a New Year chart based on sales from prior to Christmas. I remember Dave saying that the first chart of 1972 was, along with the first chart of 1975, so I wonder which others were too? I have a feeling that the chart dated 05/01/74 may have also been a chart based on sales from prior to Christmas. Dave reckoned the Christmas / New Years of 1970-71, 1971-72 and 1974-1975 had charts which were dated later than they should have been, i.e. chart announced before Christmas but published after it. I too remember the chart being announced on Christmas Eve in 1974 but ultimately dated January 4th 1975. Charts announced after Christmas but based entirely on pre-Christmas sales were the January 5th 1974 and January 5th 1980 ones. Charts dated January 6th may be, but Dave thought that January 7th 1978 was not, which is somewhat strange as this would have been sales up to December 24th otherwise, but Bing Crosby's White Christmas went down the chart and sales overall were down he reckoned.
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Post by mfr on Jan 11, 2015 20:23:46 GMT 1
Dave Taylor told me that the January 5th 1980 chart should have been dated December 29th 1979, indicating the sales that were used for that chart were for week ending Saturday December 22nd. This was the case in quite a few other years including at Christmas 1974 as you have noted above.
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Post by mfr on Oct 2, 2014 23:16:52 GMT 1
The top part is based on figures that appeared in the all-time top 100 in 2002. These were all record-company figures or estimates for singles on labels that didn't or couldn't supply figures. Alan Jones had been building these up over many years from the 1970s itself. Lower figures may have been surmised from these. Not a good idea for anyone attempting to estimate over-the-counter sales.
Over-the-counter figures for 1976 are reasonably well-known because the BPI published figures for the first 49 weeks of the year in its Yearbook, and these have been verified by several posters to be based on multiplying the panel sales by 17. It has also been explained why 17 was the choice.
The list falls down as a result. The panel sales for Save Your Kisses For Me give a figure close to the figure quoted in this chart, but Don't Go Breaking My Heart sold 890,000 over the same period and so an 835,000 estimate is too low. Some of the other estimates are too high, particularly I Love To Love by Tina Charles, which is given 680,000 on this list, but the panel sales indicate only 550,000.
While over-the-counter figures for other years are perhaps less certain I expect there will be plenty of anomalies in the Wiki list for singles from these years as well.
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Post by mfr on Oct 28, 2011 19:40:01 GMT 1
I think Liddle may have hit the nail on the head. The judge was sentencing him for Una Paloma Blanca rather then for the sex offences. The BBC response is still a little odd. They could simply have said that they needed to cut a 40 minute show down to 30 minutes and his was one of the songs to be cut out. The full 40 minute version was normally shown late at night, but this show was cut to 35 minutes or so by editing out his performance.
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Post by mfr on Aug 3, 2011 18:47:43 GMT 1
Parade might be the White & Torch minor hit from 1982. Steve Torch is now a successful songwriter including co-writing Cher's Believe.
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Post by mfr on Jul 18, 2011 23:46:10 GMT 1
Sales of releases on two differrent labels of Nana Mouskouri's Only Love were added together for chart purposes rather than chart them separately.
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Post by mfr on Jun 1, 2011 20:27:19 GMT 1
20TH SEPTEMBER- ONE DAY I'LL FLY AWAY- Randy Crawford (2 weeks)If anyone should have been bigger than they ever really were then there is a good case for Randy Crawford to be made. She led the band called "Crusaders" on their first UK hit and UK top 10 hit "Streetlife" back in 1979 and used that as a launchpad for her solo career. Her main hits in this country occured in the 80s, she provided the original "You Might Need Somebody" which Shola Ama covered and more successfully so in 1997, and the utterly sublime "Almaz" in 1987, but this was her biggest hit. It took just four weeks from a debut at No 55 to hit the No 2 spot here and looked No 1 bound but for the Police with "Don't Stand So Close To Me". It featured in the film "Moulin Rouge" some 21 years after it's release, but it's a truly beautiful record in it's original form, and tells the tale of a scarred lover desperate to move on in her life but not having the strength yet! Wonder what happened to ballads? Fantastic voice. I believe the original version of You Might Need Somebody was by Turley Richards (US number 54 in 1980).
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