charts catch up a bit
- emilystrange
- Above the Chemist
- Posts: 9031
- Joined: 03 Nov 2003, 20:26
- Location: Lady Strange's boudoir.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
It's going to take how long to figure out what a "free listen" means?
It means nothing in monetary terms.
WTF is the chart all about then?
The popularity, or how much dosh a pile of sh!t rakes in?
It means nothing in monetary terms.
WTF is the chart all about then?
The popularity, or how much dosh a pile of sh!t rakes in?
- emilystrange
- Above the Chemist
- Posts: 9031
- Joined: 03 Nov 2003, 20:26
- Location: Lady Strange's boudoir.
tis all PR and marketing, innit.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
Bunch of merchant b@nkers.emilystrange wrote:tis all PR and marketing, innit.
- silentNate
- Utterly Bastard Groovy Amphetamine Filth
- Posts: 824
- Joined: 11 Jul 2007, 07:48
- Location: Stars Hollow
Music industryemilystrange wrote:tis all PR and marketing, innit.
>ahem<
I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
Shouldn't streaming sites be counted in the same way as airplay? Switching on the radio or voting on MTV don't count towards the charts although the former does count towards the airplay chart (which is ultimately just a record of which songs radio executives are taking backhanders to put on their playlists this week).
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
- markfiend
- goriller of form 3b
- Posts: 21181
- Joined: 11 Nov 2003, 10:55
- Location: st custards
- Contact:
It's all payola anyway.
I recall hearing a story (possibly untrue) about Westlife and Louis Walsh back in the early days of their carreer. Apparently one of the boys didn't like some suggestion that they cancel some meet-and-greet, saying it was "disrespectful of our fans". Louis Walsh loses his temper, says "come with me".
Drags the boys into the car park, opens the back of a Transit van, stacked high with shopping bags full of copies of their latest single. "That's your fans there boys."
I recall hearing a story (possibly untrue) about Westlife and Louis Walsh back in the early days of their carreer. Apparently one of the boys didn't like some suggestion that they cancel some meet-and-greet, saying it was "disrespectful of our fans". Louis Walsh loses his temper, says "come with me".
Drags the boys into the car park, opens the back of a Transit van, stacked high with shopping bags full of copies of their latest single. "That's your fans there boys."
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
- silentNate
- Utterly Bastard Groovy Amphetamine Filth
- Posts: 824
- Joined: 11 Jul 2007, 07:48
- Location: Stars Hollow
Thats funny- true or notmarkfiend wrote:It's all payola anyway.
I recall hearing a story (possibly untrue) about Westlife and Louis Walsh back in the early days of their carreer. Apparently one of the boys didn't like some suggestion that they cancel some meet-and-greet, saying it was "disrespectful of our fans". Louis Walsh loses his temper, says "come with me".
Drags the boys into the car park, opens the back of a Transit van, stacked high with shopping bags full of copies of their latest single. "That's your fans there boys."
I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
Well how else would feckin' Westlife get into the charts?
A couple of years ago I wrote some material on immigration for a friend's stand-up set. My premise (and no you may not nick it as I may reuse it one day) was that if people are so worried about immigrants overstretching our resources then we should balance the books by sending a few of our less desirables to them in payment for some of the ones they've landed us with - Australian soaps, Yuri Gellar, and I also put in Westlife because I couldn't think of anyone better. I told him he should change it if he possible but he insisted on sticking with the Irish tossers. Turned out that got the biggest reaction of the night. Just goes to show that everyone hates Westlife. Because they're s**t.
A couple of years ago I wrote some material on immigration for a friend's stand-up set. My premise (and no you may not nick it as I may reuse it one day) was that if people are so worried about immigrants overstretching our resources then we should balance the books by sending a few of our less desirables to them in payment for some of the ones they've landed us with - Australian soaps, Yuri Gellar, and I also put in Westlife because I couldn't think of anyone better. I told him he should change it if he possible but he insisted on sticking with the Irish tossers. Turned out that got the biggest reaction of the night. Just goes to show that everyone hates Westlife. Because they're s**t.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.