http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/chart_changes2.shtmlChart rules are changing!
The Top 40 singles are compiled in a new way since Sunday 7 January.
Singles can now chart from the moment they become available as official downloads.
That could be four or five weeks before the CD comes out. Before Sunday, downloads could only chart one week before the CD release.
Downloads are no longer affected when the CD is deleted. As long as it's available as a download, it's eligible.
So under the new rules, Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars would have spent the last couple of months in the Top 20.
Under the old rules it wasn't chart eligible because the CD had been deleted.
Tracks available as individual downloads from albums and EPs can also enter the singles chart - so tracks from the recent Oasis EP could have charted under the new rules.
Old tracks available as downloads can also chart. Such as Aerosmith's I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - it was recently performed on X-Factor and enough people then downloaded the original to get it in the chart.
Under the old rules it wasn't eligible, under the new rules it is.
New entries to the top 40:
-whichever song was featured prominently at a critical moment of a TV show the week before
-random MySpace band
-signature song of recently deceased musician
― musically (musically), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)
HMV are dropping the chart in favour of their own "available product" singles chart.
Me, I like the idea of songs popping in and out from donkeys years ago.
"Crazy" is there because people have not actually stopped buying it yet!
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:22 (nineteen years ago)
Does that mean Spike Jones and the City Slickers might get a look-in (currently being used on two TV ad campaigns)?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:54 (nineteen years ago)
Oh, but everyone's downloading "Let me call you sweetheart" by Laurel and Hardy!
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)
Also watch out for "Something Tells Me" by Cilla Black (Ferrero Rocher).
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)
Have they sorted out Shirley Bassey singing Get This Party Started as a download single yet?
― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)
So anyhow, what's next up on "Heartbeat" that'll get the OAPs downloading onto their blackberrys?
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)
If only downloading had been around a decade ago, when "Fruit Tree" was used to soundtrack a "poignant" death sequence in Heartbeat.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking about.
It was the 'bonus extra track' on the "Heartbeat Hits" 2CD we got for Dawn's mum for Xmas a few years ago.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)
I am plotting to mastermind the surprise top40 emergence of an old Embrace b-side.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:40 (nineteen years ago)