Top 40 faces new digital shake-up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8109267.stm

The Top 40 is facing a shake-up as chart bosses consider incorporating songs from music streaming sites.
Offering free, legal access to millions of tunes, online jukebox services like We7 and Spotify have taken off in 2009.
Users can listen to tracks without paying to own them, as they have had to with vinyl, tapes, CDs and downloads.

Interesting read.

[Horace]

Those sales figures are interesting too. So much for p2p killing record sales.

Originally Posted by bbc

2003 - 30,888,000 singles sold
2004 - 32,266,000
2005 - 47,882,000
2006 - 66,925,000
2007 - 86,562,000
2008 - 115,139,000

with legal downloads more and more people are buying single tracks . Those figures are no surprise to me. I am guessing album sales figures may well show a different picture though?

[rogerdraig]

Originally Posted by Horace

Those sales figures are interesting too. So much for p2p killing record sales.

no your reading wrong lol they must be loosing out p2p increasing sales

think this way of doing charts will show the more popular songs

but i still think maybe it may be better just to have 2 charts one for most downloaded and listened to and one for sales if its possible

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

with legal downloads more and more people are buying single tracks . Those figures are no surprise to me. I am guessing album sales figures may well show a different picture though?

http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/...statistics.pdf

though many figures in this report are made up ones ( thier ideas of what they are loosing mainly lol their own figures say albulm online were up 37% last year and singles up 24% but they reckon that they should have made 20 time more money as they reckon 95% of downloads are illegal

i think the charts show healthy growth though maybe we should get top of the pops back that will solve everything

[Stuart]

Actually there is some evidence to suggest that the main problem for the record companies is simply that in the past, people were happy to buy albums even though they only liked one or two tracks (indeed, they would have to if one of the tracks was album only). Now, people can buy a lot more tracks individually, so where someone may have had to pay £9.99 or £15.99 to get those 1 or 2 two tracks, they are paying £0.79 per track now.

Even though the costs for physical media are greater, that is still substancially less money for the record company.

[rogerdraig]

which maybe gives us a better idea of who people like better than before

but album sales are still up according their own figures

either way though i think this will be a better chart

[Dude111]

VERY INTERESTING....... (And they get mad at that lady for obtaining 24 mp3s .. SHE SHOULD SEE THIS ARTICLE!)

All this is,IS A BIG MONEY SCAM (Mostly coming from the USA (The greediest country in the world ))