The greatest site since YouTube?
Posted by Dave C on 1 August 2008 - 1:12pm.
Oh my, it's a piece of genius. If you ever recorded the charts (tape or exercise book) - this site will have skipping like a pixie.
Here's the blurb...
"I have finally completed the monumental milestone of having a gap-free chart archive for UK albums and singles from the present day back to the 1950s"
"the site with the most comprehensive stats on the UK chart. There are graphs showing song's performance accross the weeks and pictures for singles and artists"
*goes giddy and lays a steadying hand on the desk*
And the chart rundown for this week 1977 looked like...
http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?week=19770730
http://www.chartstats.com/album_chart.php?date=30%2F07%2F1977
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'Please Please Me' at No. 2?
Uses the same limited data as the cursed Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, I see...
http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=3344
I am impressed
It may be based on Guiness Book, or other 'limited' data but it's online and it's got pictures and graphs and is probably as close as you can get to having that info to hand whenever you want it. What a tool (not you)! Fascinating. And 1977, a pretty good year too.
Singles this week in 1977
Included Roadrunner, God Save The Queen, I Feel Love, Easy, Anarchy In The UK, So You Win Again, Exodus and others. You'd be lucky to get that in a year nowadays.
Proof positive that the singles market s dead and buried.
My Point
...is that the Guinness book (during the '60s, at least) ignores the charts produced by the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc & Echo and the BBC, preferring instead to rely on the lesser Record Retailer chart, which produces a skewed alternate universe in which singles generally accepted to have got to number one didn't and, as such, is pretty much useless for any (half-)serious researcher.
agree
agree with leedsboy on this.. proof positive
CFC supporter as well !
Well you can't be right all
Well you can't be right all the time - thought it was CSKCFC.
TOTP - and this is just 77
you don't get albums like this anymore
Hallmark/Top Of The Pops with nuggets like
Pretty Vacant on this one
http://www.geocities.com/crappopmaster/index-page61.html
Gary Gilmour's Eyes here
http://www.geocities.com/crappopmaster/index-page62.html
No More Heroes - and Heroes (Bowie one I guess)
http://www.geocities.com/crappopmaster/index-page63.html