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Another cultural icon disappears as Pop gets a say
Topic Started: Jan 13 2007, 10:16 PM (86 Views)
JoanneVIP
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Article shortened to mention Westlife and the change of the charts music wise, and downloads

Another cultural icon disappears as Pop gets a say on the pop charts

Since January 1 anything, from any time, can be Number One and therefore the defining soundtrack of "today". New chart rules allow any downloaded song to qualify for the official charts, including album tracks, B-sides, field recordings of alcoholic Delta-blues folk bums in 1942, everything, in this mysterious new era where what's available on the high street is now officially irrelevant.

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Tests of the new chart possibilities over Christmas, therefore, showed a "new" entry would have been 22-year-old festive classic Last Christmas by Wham!, appearing in the then-download-only singles chart at Number 21. A far more agreeable scenario, certainly, than that the now-olden-days 2006 calamity: a cover of Last Christmas at Number 16 by the goddam Crazy Frog Like everything else in our preposterously speedy new technological universe, we don't know, yet, what the changes will actually mean. What we do know, now, is just as home-taping didn't kill music and CDs didn't kill vinyl, downloads didn't kill anything. Credited as the "saviour" of the single format, legal downloads now account for 78% of all UK singles bought, with a phenomenal 67 million downloads purchased in 2006. What it could mean, increasingly - and also ironically - is a return to the olden days in every way. Gone - at last! - will be the 12-year-old pop fan clutching her Westlife CD on the day of its release, creating the one-week-at-number-one pop-flash. She is now elbowed into history possibly by her dad, the £50 Man, the gizmo-addicted 30 and 40-somethings who like nothing more than tinkering with their cyber playlists and going on about "quality" to their chums, the sort of word-of-mouth enthusiasts who hoisted Ray LaMontagne's Trouble into the UK charts two full years after it was actually released.

Source:Sunday Herald
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Filan's Zulma
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Happy now i have the Apple's iPod Nano yeh!193 dollars
Thanks josie s23sofa
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JoanneVIP
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youre welcome Zulma, hows you hunie
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Filan's Zulma
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Happy now i have the Apple's iPod Nano yeh!193 dollars
:P fine ,, hunnie see you later .. a kiss.............
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Villy Feehily*McDaid
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Erm is anyone 12 years old in here? haha cause I'm 21 in May.... :rolleyes:

Thanx for posting Jo, I hope the lads will keep selling loads and securing No.1s even with old music's competition. ;)
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Villy Feehily,Jan 14 2007
10:13 AM
Erm is anyone 12 years old in here? haha cause I'm 21 in May.... :rolleyes:


haha no im not 12 im 18 in August... but i can pretend... :lol: haha

Thanks for posting Jo... :D :D
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Filan Lover
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haha same here, I'm 18 in october! thanks for posting xx
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