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Post by pothos on May 5, 2019 10:15:46 GMT
I was just thinking about how I used to keep up with the Top 40 singles and Lp charts. You would get the chart rundown on a Tuesday lunchtime from Radio 1. (How I got away with taking a full sized radio to school hidden in my bag is beyond me) and the LP was Thursday evenings. Top of the Pops would be on the Thursday evening as well so you would get the top 40 acts on tv. How did you get to know in the 1960. I keep seeing NME charts mentioned and obviously TOTP's was on as well but how did it work when the The Beatles were releasing singles.
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Post by ROCKY on May 5, 2019 14:05:00 GMT
I remember the radio station here in the US would play the Top 25 on Saturday afternoons and would have a printed list you could get at the record store on Mondays. Was a lot of fun seeing if your record you liked would be on the list. Of course any NEW Beatle 45 would be on that list in the Top Ten or even No. 1 most of the time. What memories! Thanks pothos for taking me back for awhile!
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Post by henryj on May 6, 2019 2:25:48 GMT
Yeah, it was in record stores and record departments that you could find the charts. In those days, the music was played on AM radio, not FM. One of the radio stations in the nearest city was on 540 kHz, so their survey was the top 54. Another station had the top 100.
There were two ways of charting two-sided hits: One way was to count the number of actual records sold and both sides together would occupy a chart position. For example, at no. 1, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"b/w "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles. (b/w means backed with) The other way, which is how I think Billboard and Cashbox did it, was to chart the songs individually. "Hand" might have been no. 1 while "Standing There" was no. 11.
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Post by Mr Kite on May 6, 2019 14:50:03 GMT
I use to tape the Chart rundowns on Sunday nights and it was the talking point on Monday mornings at school But I think I hav`nt looked at the singles charts since the middle 80`s , so would`nt be much use in a Pub Quiz these days
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Post by ROCKY on May 6, 2019 16:54:37 GMT
I couldn't even tell you the TOP TEN now, I don't even know what is the Number One song!! lol Back in the old days I remember me and the guys would get into real heated arguments over what song was the best!! lol
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Post by pothos on May 6, 2019 22:15:33 GMT
I am the same I have no idea regarding charts. I do listen to new artists and there is some great stuff out there but somehow I believe that musical currency is really low now. I was looking at the Record Store day releases. In my entire county there is not one store I had to order online after they place the stock online (got what I wanted from an indie store but still from out of the district. 25 years ago I could access 20 stores. Add three great weekly pop/rock shows then seasonal live stuff like Rock goes to College it all feels rather cheap and Jools Holland does his best but he only get a 10 week run. No music magazines live venues closing, so sad.
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Post by ROCKY on May 8, 2019 12:51:28 GMT
I often wonder what genius decided all this!? Who came up with the brilliant idea that closing record stores was a good idea? With one full swoop they killed the music business! Hitler couldn't have done it better!
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Post by henryj on May 8, 2019 14:13:26 GMT
I often wonder what genius decided all this!? Who came up with the brilliant idea that closing record stores was a good idea? With one full swoop they killed the music business! Hitler couldn't have done it better! It's part of the larger problem of the disappearance of brick-and-mortar retailing. Maybe the grandchildren of the millennials will find it nice to be able to see, touch, and smell items before buying them. When I miss, and what people are not doing any more, is just browsing through a catalog to see what exists, what's out there, that you might not know even existed. Something that you might be interested in. The same can be applied to s brick-and-mortar store.
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Post by ROCKY on May 13, 2019 12:50:01 GMT
It was not only getting the item when you bought it but the bigger picture...where do the powers to be think these kids are going to get jobs doing? And better yet happy at what they are doing! Flipping hamburgers? When they got rid of vinyl they got rid of millions of jobs that were run by teenagers. Kids that were happy to go to work and happy to bullsh*t about their jobs and what they were selling. Now you got kids turning to drugs to make a living. Not that it didn't happen back then, but you have kids now shooting one another over that crap! Everyday in my city there's at least two or three kids dying and being killed by that crap, all I'm saying is if they had a decent alternative it wouldn't happen. And records were probably the biggest alternative there was and it ain't there 'NO MO'. I wouldn't want to be a kid growing up in this era.
I'm off my soapbox back to the Music Charts.
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