A good chart or cunning smarts? (The Charts)

Member Name: lost_help

Product:	The Charts
Date:	01/02/03 (255 review reads)
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Advantages: sometimes good muisc gets the number ones pot

Disadvantages: full of cruddy artists, real talent is overlooked

Back in the days when you could get more than ten sweets in a ten pence mix up and people left their doors open without fear of being brutally murdered or robbed the music charts were born. In those ‘good old days’ the music charts were used to see how many copies of a song was sold, nowadays the charts are used to see which song is the ’best’ in that week.

The battle for the number one spot is now getting ever so juvenile, in every newspaper you read stories about a group or artist moaning about another. For example, the battle for the 2002 Christmas number one between Girls aloud and One true Voice. Or you see pictures of scantly clad singers who try to sell more singles by getting naked, Christina Aguilera anyone?!

Also to sell more copied of a Cd many singers bring out remix after remix which hard core fans stupidly buy it for more drum beats or song with a different backing vocals, and low and behold, the remixed album is again number one. Jennifer Lopez is a fine example of this ‘new and improved’ album tactic.

Recently the sordid chart battle graced my school, Busted came to ‘perform.’ I use the term perform very, very loosely as; firstly, the band could not have actually been playing their guitars, as they were not plugged in and the band were also miming, very obviously. Anyway, after the pathetic 20 minutes of miming Busted left in a hurry and for the next week everyone talked about the concert and as a result of this publicly stunt many of the credulous pupils of my school, who actually believed that Busted came to our lame ass school of their own accord went rushing out to the shops to buy Busted’s album!! Keep you eye on this week’s album chart to see if Busted are number one because of this little stunt, I hope that they aren’t!

Also the charts, in my opinion are dim-witted, just because a list of random songs is printed in the paper doesn’t
mean that they are good, most band that I find good, for example System of a Down and little known cKy have never reached the number one spot but are better that some of the crap that is stacked on our record store shelves, I mean who actually brought Candle in the Wind because they like the song? Hardly anyone. Most people brought it because of the death of Princess Diana.

Also, in biased world of radio plays a part in the charts, the formula goes,
Song + lots of radio play = number one
Usually the songs with the most radio play are those that have recently been in the top ten or the artists which are the flavour of the week so all the good but unknown bands get very little air play whilst the talent less wonders gets lots of air play, where is the justice!!!!!

Sometimes there is hope, sometimes real music does kick the ass of the manufactured bands with their stupid stunts and interviews, and a classic example is David Gray. He kicked Gareth Gates ass in the album charts due to talent, although it took David Gray years to claim the number one stop it was worth it just to rub it in the faces of all the Gareth Gates fans!!

All in all I believe that the music charts are a waste of time, the talented band or artist are rarely number one, it is ripped from their hands by young, manufactured stars with powerful agents. Overall the music charts should be changed to one of the following names;

What the companies want you to buy charts.
Stupid fake music charts
Cunning scams charts
Impressionable people charts
Buy these Cd’s as we say they are good charts

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