The Charts Reviews

My apologies on this, this is really more about current chart music than the charts themselves. It might well be the wrong place to put it but I didn’t want to put it in the music in general bit (as I'm working on another op on that) and Dooyoo wouldn’t add a pop category. I watched CD:UK last week, because my favourite ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Supeficiality. It's the thing that I hate most in the world. I hate it with such a passion that when my friends start complaining about their weight or talking about some new celebrity miracle diet, I just lose it. Because I hate this world's obsession with the outside, with image, beauty over talent, image over creativity. This is why I ...  Read the complete review

Ah, the charts. A complete waste of time they are. I'm looking at the Radio 1 site and, oh my, Holly "Neighbours" Valance, S*** Club Juniors, the Sugababes... AGGGHHHH! I'm fed up with the pop charts. I'm fed up with "Pop Idol", "Popstars" and tedious 4/4 dance music. The singles ...  Read the complete review

For the first time since the US billboard charts, theres no British acts in the top one hundred. The once bastion of great and original music is now reduced to producing every day dross on a 24 track like Atomic Kitten and Steps. The latter wouldn?t even have got a Butlin red coat in the seventies as they are so kitsch. Any reasonable ...  Read the complete review

Hmmm, I guess this topic could be a bit of a hot potato depending on a number of factors, including your own musical taste, age, listening and shopping habits among them. Why? Well I'll be going into all that here. To begin with, in my personal opinion, as far as "chart" music goes i.e. that showcased by Top of the Pops, ...  Read the complete review

2001 didn't start well - Bob the Builder was at number one. It got worse, he was dethroned by a terrible trio:- Touch Me by Ru Da Silva, Everytime You Need Me by Fragma and It's The Way You Make Me Feel by Steps. But 2001, so we were told, was to be the year ROCK returned. and, as if to prove it, Limp Bizkit were Rollin' ...  Read the complete review

Do the official UK charts mean anything anymore? Well, in my view they don't tell you anything about how good or bad an artist, band or song is. Recently, we've seen a noticable decrease in the quality of top 10 singles. Firstly, it's clear to see that the top 10 has been taken over by light "pop" music. ...  Read the complete review

When a song is released people look at how well it performs in the music chart. This chart consists of the best selling 40 records for each week. This chart is displayed in music shops around the country and is played on the radio every Sunday night on various music stations. Pepsi sponsors it and so you may know to it better as the Pepsi chart. ...  Read the complete review

Dooyoo – The Charts Welcome to what the masses regard as the ‘official’ nature of music in the UK, the recordings of the record industry, songs that are played from the placing at number 40 to the all importantly ‘acclaimed’ number 1 spot on Radio 1. As much as I abide by the fact that the majority ...  Read the complete review

Is there any point in the music charts anymore. The big record companies gather around an Ikea table and carve it up. Whose turn is it to have their new boyband at number one. Whose turn is it to blood the new manic Indy band they have been holding back until fresher’s week, and those juicy grant cheques. It’s so contrived its ...  Read the complete review

The top 40 chart has long been a murky graveyard for washed up has-beens and pretentious one-hit wonders, and yet many who manage to mount the summit still claim it to be the pinnacle of their career. Quite how you can take any satisfaction from being top of a chart that is a behind-the-scenes conspiracy between retailers and record labels in the ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Yes, I think I've found the answer...they put the worst song at number one in the singles chart and the better one further up!For instance Incubus' new single"Drive" charted at #40 and that is a great song and Slipknot haven't even made the top 40, which mean's they are amazing!the real reason the charts are so bad is ...  Read the complete review

I suppose I should start this by mentioning that I used to listen to the charts in the 80's when I was hugely fond of nothing but chart music. My first opinion on the charts these days is that they are full of a lot of absolute rubbish. For a start there must be at least two or three cover songs in the charts on a regular basis that are ...  Read the complete review

I'm a big fan of music, and although I tend to prefer bands that play guitar opposed to loud, techno dance creations, I do not neglect the need for there to be variety in our charts. The music charts since 1952 have attempted (and in my opinion have been mostly successful) to reflect the tastes of our nation, bringing the finest music to our ...  Read the complete review

This is really for the irish charts but the theory is the same, I assume. Do you ever wonder how the Charts work? I do. I often wonder about control and access to information and such paranoia-inducing topics. Living in ireland, and having lived in and around London for about ten years, I am familiar with the thought that I might well be ...  Read the complete review

Frankenstein would be proud...in other words, the workers at the pop cloning factory have succeeded in their evil plan to take over the UK charts with their manufactured money making clones. I haven't gone mad (I hope) I'm just tired of bland pop followed by more bland pop all trying to outdo each other. I've heard that the ...  Read the complete review

The charts in the old days when I was a wee nipper were like the FA cup draw with most kids crowding around the radio at lunch break at school to see who’s top and will Gary Numan still be number one with Car. Now the record companies have rigged CD prices, formulated and constructed music and have the commercial and public music ...  Read the complete review

Over the years the charts have fallen in stature, there was a time when it was really only the music that mattered that was considered cool, but now it can also be fashionable to be into underground music as well. When I was part of the younger generation that was all I listened to, the music you hear on the radio, and the music you see ...  Read the complete review