Music Chart - Who is on Top

Music Chart Information

Times have altered and the music media has had to adjust to people's changing habits. Shows that present the hits of the day have fallen out of favor, as fans choose TV and radio that concentrates in a certain type of music. The MTV generation can pick and choose from a lot of channels and not simply watch a rundown of the latest music chart. Downloading from the Web is having a enormous impact on the sales from record stores. The recent number one UK hit, Crazy from Gnarls Barclay was the result of downloads sales alone. The Arctic Monkeys, a British guitar group, achieved success through the MySpace web site and had the biggest selling debut album of UK history. It's not that the musicchart is no longer important, but it's being provided in a different way. After dragging their heels, the compilers had to take permissible downloading into account.

Music Chart Tips

A lot of singers would like to get the Christmas number one. These are the songs that everyone keep in mind and repeat plays are very lucrative. The UK band Slade still lives off the income from their yuletide hit. There are few classics brought out for a spin at this Christmas time, including John and Yoko's Merry Christmas, War Is Over and the Pogue's Fairytale of New York, featuring Kirsty McColl. There is also some festive offerings, best not remembered.

Controversy has a few times involved the music industry and some disk jockeys have been mentioned for payola. This is when a presenter takes a bribe to play a specific album, in order to move it forward on the musicchart. Every now and then, the question is raised as to how exact the charts are. Artists don't have to put up for sale as many copies to get that coveted number one place now but there is more competition than existed in the 1960s and 1970s era.

Many artists focus on the album charts and don't care with the popularity of singles. Mega singers like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd filled enormous stadiums without much success on the singles music chart. The Beatles were successful in both, notably having the top five places on the singles chart in the US as soon aswhen they came in America. We will not see that happen again!