UK Charts/ Midweeks 2019

Noddy Holder publicly laughed at the figure he was supposed to earn every year.He declined to give a genuine one, as is his right but he said the 500k per year was vastly inflated.
 
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But research carried out for Channel 5 in 2016 attempted to find the answer and concluded the top earning songs every year are as follows:

  1. “Merry Xmas Everybody” by Slade £1m (in royalties per year)
  2. “Fairytale of New York” by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl £400,000
  3. “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey £400,000
  4. “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby £328,000
  5. “Last Christmas” by Wham! £300,000
  6. “Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney £260,000
  7. “Stop the Cavalry” by Jona Lewie £120,000
  8. “2000 Miles” by The Pretenders £102,000
  9. “Mistletoe and Wine” by Cliff Richard £100,000
  10. “Stay Another Day” by East 17 £97,000
 
I gave up on Xmas no.1 a few years ago.

The annoying thing for me is that I feel that the potential is there for the race to be interesting again with big acts releasing Christmas singles, but the public is just LOL SAUSAGE ROLLS instead.
 
Reading that top 10...I would have thought "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" would have kept the wolf from Roy Wood's door over the years...
 
Is anyone else unable to play Underneath The Tree on Spotify? It’s just greyed out and unavailable for me
 
I see LadBaby has released a Swing version, for those who thought the original wasn't quite shit enough. Needless to say that's at #1 and #2, outselling Jarvis at #3 by about 7:1 combined. And outselling Mariah by about 30:1.
 
Have we lost all hope that Mariah will nab the Christmas #1 here in the UK then? She only has 3 days, and as already said she is likely to rise at the weekend but by then it will be too late.
 
At least she got to number 1 in the USA which I am sure is what she was aiming for REALLY.
 
And I know it's already been said, but I hate the British public. We hate that X Factor takes over the Christmas #1 slot and then we spend our entire time trying to get shit novelty records and so called "protest" songs to number one.

FUCK OFF.
 
It's interesting - that year Rage Against The Machine were put up against the X Factor winner was supposed to be the year that "saved" the Christmas Number One from Simon Cowell. But look at it since then - it's been fucking awful and you'd struggle to remember any of them except Clean Bandit who just happened to be in the midst of the 9 week run when Christmas arrived.
 
Indeed Rage Against the Machine triggered a decade of DIY any old shit rather than a decade of contemporary classics.

I'm not pissed off at LadBaby. It's like Screaming Lord Sutch for Christmas.
 
Why buy a shit MP3? Why not just give some money to a homeless charity - it's not like they're thin on the fucking ground, not that you'd know if after what happened last Thursday...
 
Do we ACTUALLY give a SHIT anymore? Most of you have all said that the charts mean FUCK ALL now anyway, so are we really that bothered if Mariah gets Christmas Number One or not? I don't think the charts have ever been LESS relevant since 1952.
 
We have to tak about anything, darling. And anyway, even if the charts mean nothing anymore, we all want to have a perfect Christmas, and that's with Mariah at number one.
 
Kala just because you don’t dear does not mean that we don’t. We are a forum made up of a lot of former chart geeks so of course we still ACTUALLY give a SHIT, even if it is just a passing interest.
 
Kala just because you don’t dear does not mean that we don’t. We are a forum made up of a lot of former chart geeks so of course we still ACTUALLY give a SHIT, even if it is just a passing interest.
Exactly, even if it's to moan about how shit the charts are, I still have the need to say loud frequently.
 
Btw @Rita, I just noticed that in your avatar doesn't say christian prostitute, I don't know why I was reading this when it has nothing to do with it. Just wanted to share it. x
 
Btw @Rita, I just noticed that in your avatar doesn't say christian prostitute, I don't know why I was reading this when it has nothing to do with it. Just wanted to share it. x

PROSTITUTE? :D

I think I have had that avatar for at least 10 years, but my penchant for CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN has not faltered so it is still as relevant as ever.
 
I think Kala's point stands. The wider public don't care any more when it used to be a genuinely huge deal i.e. it would be covered on the actual news (in the "And Finally..." bit at the end of then programme, of course but still...). It is only a clutch of chart geeks who are bothered these days.
 
I think Kala's point stands. The wider public don't care any more when it used to be a genuinely huge deal i.e. it would be covered on the actual news (in the "And Finally..." bit at the end of then programme, of course but still...). It is only a clutch of chart geeks who are bothered these days.

Yes this much is true, but for me personally it is still the most important number one of the year. We have created pages worth of chat over the last few weeks, so I would say collectively we do still give a shit. It struck me more as a do bears shit in the woods type question.
 
PROSTITUTE? :D

I think I have had that avatar for at least 10 years, but my penchant for CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN has not faltered so it is still as relevant as ever.
Oh its a person then, no idea. I thought it was a joke or so, I've been reading that forever until I just noticed, those stilettos on the floor after a party always gave me that vibe. Oh well! :D
 
Oh its a person then, no idea. I thought it was a joke or so, I've been reading that forever until I just noticed, those stilettos on the floor after a party always gave me that vibe. Oh well! :D

Christian Louboutin is a fashion designer who specialises in shoes. I have long been a fan of his STUNNING stilettos.
 
Of course Kala has a point, but please, WE ALL CRIED yesterday when Mariah made it to number one in the US, we still have a heart and care about Christmas not being ruined by bloody sausages rolls. :evil:
 
I think Kala's point stands. The wider public don't care any more when it used to be a genuinely huge deal i.e. it would be covered on the actual news (in the "And Finally..." bit at the end of then programme, of course but still...). It is only a clutch of chart geeks who are bothered these days.

Of course his point stands in terms of the wider public, but this is moopy. Of course a lot of us give a shit, even if we know the chart has been SHITE for years.

And that's before considering how much we all like to MOAN about the charts being shit! If we stop moaning on moopy we may as well shut up shop.
 
1 Own It (feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy)by Stormzy 540,003
2 Dance Monkeyby Tones and I 437,972
3 All I Want for Christmas Is Youby Mariah Carey 399,827
4 Last Christmasby Wham! 380,990
5 ROXANNEby Arizona Zervas 358,752
6 Audacity (feat. Headie One)by Stormzy 348,024
7 Before You Goby Lewis Capaldi 343,515
8 Lessonsby Stormzy 343,272
9 Don't Start Nowby Dua Lipa 332,799
10 Adore Youby Harry Styles 307,955
 
NGL, I think Stormzy is a great Xmas number one in the present climate, even if it has got that nipple Sheeran guesting on it
 
But it isn't for charity!

I seriously saw someone comment on the OCC website berating Stormzy for being anti Boris, while applauding Ladbaby for supporting food banks. People really are incapable of joining the dots.
 
I seriously saw someone comment on the OCC website berating Stormzy for being anti Boris, while applauding Ladbaby for supporting food banks. People really are incapable of joining the dots.

Fuck me. No wonder they won by a landslide with that level of STUPID doing the rounds. Shoelace manufacturers will go out of business at this rate.
 
I know we are (or were) all big chart geeks - I used to record the top 40, write the whole thing down and keep it in a folder, make up my own charts, buy Music Week and Billboard and even got a job in Virgin and ended up on charge of the singles department and stand there waiting for the fax to come through with the singles chart at 4pm on a Sunday so I’d know the number one before anyone else (figuratively speaking). Obsessed doesn’t even begin to describe it, and I’m sure all of you resonate with this.

However there has been lots of negative discussion on how not only are the charts full of shit now (possibly an age thing) but the way the charts are compiled and the stupid rules they have now have made a total mockery of the charts we all used to love in its heyday. Plenty of people complain that songs only chart well because they’re placed high on a Spotify playlist. Well, what type of playlist do we think people play over the Christmas week? The charts are going to be filled with old Christmas songs for years to come. But then the charts stopped being a reflection on what’s actually popular a LONG time ago. So yes, it would be nice for Mariah to make number 1, but it’s really only so it looks good on her Wikipedia entry, nothing else.
 
So yes, it would be nice for Mariah to make number 1, but it’s really only so it looks good on her Wikipedia entry, nothing else.
Nothing else? We got actually excited about that, the charts might not mean that much anymore, but Mariah having the Christmas number one is not just wiki info that looks good, are you for real? You probably masturbate compulsively when a crap female singer finishes in the top 10 in Eurovision, are you going to reduce this feat to "looking good on wikipedia"? Kala you can't be serious!
 
Who's "we"? Most of Moopy doesn't give a fuck, let alone a wider constituency. I know she has die-hard fans but so do most heritage acts.
 

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