why we should no longer care about the charts

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Tom Angel · #1 Post by **Tom Angel** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 9:48 am

++ Number One
WESTLIFE The Rose

++ Top Ten
MADONNA Jump
SUGABABES Easy

++ Top Twenty
PAUK WELLER Wild Blue Yonder
AKON Smack That
KASABIAN Shoot The Runner
GEORGE MICHAEL & MUTYA This Is Not Real Love
INFERNAL Self-Control

++ Top Forty
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Hurt
PIGEON DETECTIVES I Found Out
ROBBIE WILLIAMS Lovelight

WESTLIFE???? If a band should ever have died in a plane crash rather than the Big Bopper and Richie Valens et al, on the day music died its this bunch of insipid, bland to*8ers. did anyone even know they had a single out? I generally try to steer away from music snobbery, but this kind of music that a lift would find offensive, is bought by people who not only don't like music, but whom I suspect hate music. There can be no other explanation. Bring back Take That to bury these bast8rds.

There, I wish i felt better, but they're still number one.

kimphilby · #2 Post by **kimphilby** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 9:50 am

++ Number One
WESTLIFE The Rose

That will be their 14TH

UK number one.
The charts mean nothing.

BlueSwan · #3 Post by **BlueSwan** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 10:01 am

Incredibly, it has now been 7½ years since Westlife had their first #1. They can no longer be regarded as a typical boyband with 2-3 years of success before the dumper beckons. I don't even think that much of their audience is teenage girls anymore - it's probably more grannies and housewifes.

Actually, their last album was shockingly decent. Quite good, even.

DazzerUKUK · #4 Post by **DazzerUKUK** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 10:29 am

BlueSwan wrote:
Actually, their last album was shockingly decent. Quite good, even.

Surely that comment qualifies for 40 lashes, a life ban and six months community service working in Lidl ?

Eldritch · #5 Post by **Eldritch** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 10:50 am

DazzerUKUK wrote:
BlueSwan wrote:
Actually, their last album was shockingly decent. Quite good, even.
Surely that comment qualifies for 40 lashes, a life ban and six months community service working in Lidl ?

Even more disturbing than the actual comment is that BlueSwan has apparently willingly exposed himself to the album in question. Now, that's sick!

Rent · #6 Post by **Rent** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 10:54 am

The so-called charts have been a joke aeons ago.

dVTB · #7 Post by **dVTB** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 11:04 am

Just because your average boyband tops the chart, we should stop caring? I do care about PSB chart results, since they reflect their commercial success. That commerical success is more than welcome to extend their career in music.

DazzerUKUK · #8 Post by **DazzerUKUK** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 11:04 am

What is bizarre about Westlife's singles chart position is that downloads represent around only 10 - 12% of sales..........whereas the market average is about 57%.

Are all Westlife fans old grannies without computers popping a cd in with their horlicks at their local tesco?

dVTB · #9 Post by **dVTB** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 11:12 am

DazzerUKUK wrote:What is bizarre about Westlife's singles chart position is that downloads represent around only 10 - 12% of sales..........whereas the market average is about 57%.

Are all Westlife fans old grannies without computers popping a cd in with their horlicks at their local tesco?

No, they have (whether you like it or not), loyal fans who go out and buy their copies in music stores. In fact it's rather similar to PSB... Don't forget that Westlife is already around since 1999, when legal music downloads weren't around yet.

Speaking of *taste*, however....

Janet Street-Porter · Fri 10 Nov 2006, 11:30 am

Westlife are without doubt the most soulless pointless group in chart history. They are Robson and Jerome without the wild experimentation (their version of Unchained Melody is both ground-breaking and epoch-defining). Jesus, they're even worse than Boyzone.

kimphilby · #11 Post by **kimphilby** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 11:42 am

Westlife are without doubt the most soulless pointless group in chart history. They are Robson and Jerome without the wild experimentation (their version of Unchained Melody is both ground-breaking and epoch-defining). Jesus, they're even worse than Boyzone

A bunch of ugly potato-heeds too.

Tom Angel · #12 Post by **Tom Angel** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 11:45 am

To be honest TvDB, I DO care about psb chart postions (I shouldn't, but i do) which is why when such utter vacuous dross like WestZone does well, I want to cry. I guess it's just reassuring that chart positions have no bearing on quality. (though not to say good songs don't do well, or even deserve to be no.1 sometimes)

! · #13 Post by ! » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 12:02 pm

Tom Angel wrote:++ Top Ten
MADONNA Jump

++ Top Twenty
KASABIAN Shoot The Runner

++ Top Forty
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Hurt

These ones are good and don't deserved to be highlighted in your attack against the charts. Other than that, I agree with you.

kimphilby · #14 Post by **kimphilby** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 12:08 pm

++ Top Twenty
KASABIAN Shoot The Runner

++ Top Forty
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Hurt

These ones are good and don't deserved to be highlighted in your attack against the charts. Other than that, I agree with you.

Kasabian's new album is a shocker. Their debut was promising, derivative but done well. I never liked Gary Glitter so this new one does nothing for me. They think they're a much better band than they quite evidently are. Thoroughly unpleasant individuals.

The new Xtina single is awful. A vomituous attempt to redo Beautiful but with none of that song's redeeming qualities.

Tom Angel · #15 Post by **Tom Angel** » Fri 10 Nov 2006, 12:09 pm

Fair point ! Sorry, I actually only 'cut and pasted' that chart from Popbitch, it wasn't an indictment against those other songs, Madonna's Jump is great. I was just so incensed about the'life

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