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Best of/Worst of
So, this month's ish brought home by the Mr last night.
And of course the best of/worst of is Christmas themed - no reason why not...
The worst of list is an exercise in dread - anodyne cash-ins, and the thought of Scary Mary Carey being the best selling Christmas album ever is fairly horrifying.
I have just perused my Popbitch mailout and what do I see in their chart predictions but the following:
++ Top Twenty
MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is You
THE POGUES Fairytale of New York
++ Top Forty
ANDY WILLIAMS The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
WHAM! Last Christmas
WIZZARD I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
SHAKIN' STEVENS Merry Christmas Everybody
Are these all really re-released or has someone spiked Popbitch's tea with a powerful hallucinogen?
I think I need a lie down.....
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Available on i-tunes.
No Em, download only singles can now make the top 40, if enough people buy them they'll chart. Imagine the top 40 the week after The Beatles back catalog is available on i-tunes. Carnage.
Top Songs On I-Tunes
At this moment 22 of the top 100 Top Songs on i-tunes are Christmas songs. I don't know whether the "top songs" are songs that have been downloaded or songs they are promoting. Amongst the usual suspects are Maria Carey, Pogues and Kirsty, Andy Williams, Band Aid, Wizzard, Chris Rea, Shakin' Stevens, John Lennon and Paul McCartney amongst others. An influx of Christmas songs making the Top 40 then?
i've askedit before, and i'll ask it again
who in the hell is going to buy the Beatles stuff on iTunes; i mean, seriously, how many people do any of you know that have the Beatles on CD and do not possess the wherewithall to put it on their mp3 player?
Are there *that* many luddites without access to a kindly younger relative out there who'll pay again?
Obv if new material goes on iTunes exlusive or whatever, that's different, but stuff that's been rattling around for decades? I think not. And even if the stuff is newly remastered, surely the punters will go for the physical product with the nice artwork and so on?
Stairway To Heaven
Stairway To Heaven entered the Top 40 recently on downloads alone, obviously there is a sector of people who do not own old classic songs and would be happy to spend just 79p to own them. That is why I can see a top 40 influx of Beatles songs when they become available on i-tunes. Most of us who post here, I agree already have a huge percentage of Beatles, Stones, Leppelin etc back catalogue but there is a large amount of (younger) people who do not and would (i think)definatley purchase individual songs. Time will tell......
time will, indeed, tell
and i realise i shouldn't be as curmudgeonly as i seem to be! Now that i think of though, it'll be jolly interesting to see how the top 40 DOES pan out when the Fabs go digital. In the same way that (with the exception of Revolver & Pepper for the most part) a lot of their albums don't trouble the top ten of many of the 'voted by the readers of this magazine' lists due to the votes being 'split' it'll be interesting to see which Beatles song(s) reach that critical mass and hit the higher reaches of the charts.
In other words, considering the amount of songs they had, and the fact that there's no accounting for taste at all, surely the only thing we can be sure of (if we *can* be sure) is that Revolution 9 will be the least downloaded and then perhaps, the others will all split and only reach medium chart placings!
Phew
I had forgotten that, thanks Steve.
No-one seems to be downloading Cliff then!