The charts is a right old joke these days. Surprisingly I'm not talking about the amount of R 'n' B in it. Nor do I refer to Radio 1 giving the gig to Fearne and Reggie. I'm actually on about the fact that downloads count towards your chart placing.
Now on paper, this is a good idea. Electronic transfer of music is the state of the art these days, so it would be incredibly ignorant for those sales to be left out. However, rather than only counting downloads of recently-released songs, the download of ANY track available at the designated outlets counts. Ridiculous.
When Peter Kay and Little Britain did the Proclaimers charity record, the original record actually made it back into the charts due to the amount of dullards downloading the wrong one. Theoretically, with the right amount of downloads, any track from any time ever could be number one. The charts have been a bit of a misnomer for some time now, but this sort of thing completely removes any element of respect left for this once crucial gauge of your musical success.
The latest is that with Christmas coming, a lot of people will hear tracks they like, download the mothers and the charts will be effectively a Christmas album. Personally I think that might be quite good, at least for novelty value. Then again, the downloads for Cheeky Christmas haven't been counted yet...
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