uk albums chart 2004 : rise of the pensioners.

I was rather tempted by Ultimate Manilow in the supermarket on Saturday.

It's my fault. Sorry.

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Like I said before,,,

Next time's pop idol/stars/fame academy will be full of 15-20 year olds that are really into jazz because of all the nice clothes that Cullem/Melua/Batty get to wear...

At the moment practically all music adverts on tv are suffixed with "A great present for mothers day". That might have a lot to do with it.

Mind you, this didn't used to happen. People must be throwing them into their shopping baskets while they're in Tescos. Another reason to lament the demise of proper record shops.

Yeah, it's a supermarket thing - their price point is under a tenner and they're reaching people who aren't normally record buyers.

(I can't bring myself to care about the albums chart though.)

aaaah! mothers day!
had forgotten that could have something to do with it.

The one suggestion I've heard is that actual "pop" nowadays really doesn't reach forward to that 5-12 age range that it was under, say, the Spice Girls. There does seem to be a lot more emphasis on chart pop being "clever" nowadays.

That could be bullshit, though.

our fault, they gotta market their records to those who will buy them, that group is conservative and in its thirties. Pop Idol has take the sheen off pop, that combined with the ease with which they use technology, means that the teenybopper market has been decimated. curiosity and a desire to be trendy, majour catalists for the purchases of those intheir twentys have, at a stroke been sated by file sharing. Mostly because we have all regretted purchases made because the artists was mutch talked about at a particular time, and because downloading is now trendyer than any album/artist has ever been. Thus the only people left to buy records are those who dissagree with downloading and refuse to do, these people tend not to be that adventurous in their musical tastes. Their is some good news though, free is good, the record industry must recognise that they acted too late to combat file sharing, and doo something far more radical and constructive than random prosecutions to stop their hemoridging sales. Until that happens disregard the charts as they are utterly irrelevant.