No Question About It (The Charts)

Member Name: MaynardRob

Product:	The Charts
Date:	03/08/01 (16 review reads)
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When we were 9 years old we used to think the charts were the be-all and end-all of music. If it was number 1 - it was damn good and you liked it!

Thank God I am no longer 9 years old.... The charts are a rough representation of how intensive marketing schemes are. Representation of trends - like boy/girl bands. Perhaps the best example of this is the recently manufactured "Hearsay". People followed the making of the "band" on TV, and low and behold they release a single and it gets to number 1, at the same time breaking all kinds of records. If the programme had never existed, Hearsay would be lucky to even enter the charts.

Boy/girl bands - do you ever see a member who would not be considered pleasing to the eye for the opposite sex? Or failing that do you ever see a member without a certain gimmick? Do they actually have any musical skill at all? Music is being taken over by corporations using it to make money - by corrupting it with these acts who would do better to become models. The charts are a haven for corporate products.

This is not good for youngsters, it causes them to grow up ignorant, considering anything which hasn't made the charts to be "rubbish". These pop acts which rise in the charts are pretty much used by record labels, who earn the majority of the money. The record label tells them what to do, tells them what to say - it's pathetic really. Hopefully the youth of today will understand how the charts work sooner rather than later.

No not that the best music gets the better places. That the most commercial music gets the better place.

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