Downloads in the charts

[Harrison]

What do you all think about music downloads taking over from physical CD single sales?

Personally I'm not too sure. We had the chart on in the car on Sunday and most of it was a load of rubbish. Maybe that is the current youth of today and I'm out of touch (getting old)! But as single songs downloaded from commercial sites are not just new releases is this really a good reflection of current new releases, as the old music charts always reflected?

Should they just show the sales of new releases? or all current weekly releases?

Quite funny Radio One managing to get the old Billy song back into the charts after 8 years though.

[AlexJ]

Well the singles chart should reflect what songs people are buying I suppose. I personally think it's a bit pointless, singles are generally promotions to get people to buy albums. If you want the new music, it's shown on most of the music channels (the music channels that actually play music unlike MTV)

The album chart is what I'm more interested in.

[J T]

Yeah, I'm pretty much with Alex on this one. I stopped caring about singles charts a long, long time ago. I couldn't even tell you what's at number one ATM.

Not that I care too much for album charts either, but I might have a quick look through them if I'm in amusic shop to see if there's anything takes my fancy. To here new stuff I'll check out the music channels on telly or the radio.

[LowercaseE]

I'm not into what's on the charts so I wouldn't even know where to begin. I doubt my downloading of a Xentrix album is going to have any effect on the charts.

[Harrison]

Same with me. I never listen to the radio chart shows or look at the singles charts in music shops. We just happened to have the charts on last weekend because my girlfriend had heard about the switch over to downloads being used for the charts.

It didn't seen to have improved the selection! We turned it off after 4 songs that were all rapping, r&b and lots of other rubbish.

I tend to also just stick the music channels on for a bit to see if anything new sounds good, or look at some sites online to see what albums are selling well and peoples comments on how good they thought they were. I find Amazon can actually be quite good for that.

[Demon Cleaner]

I never listen to the radio too, they always play the same, and always the same crap. Gonna d/l the new One Man Army album, which will be released soon, and just d/l the newest Legion of the Damned album to give it a try. And such music is not played on any radio station.

"Heavy must stay together, all others must die" Paul Baloff

[LowercaseE]

I never listen to the radio too, they always play the same, and always the same crap. Gonna d/l the new One Man Army album, which will be released soon, and just d/l the newest Legion of the Damned album to give it a try. And such music is not played on any radio station.

"Heavy must stay together, all others must die" Paul Baloff

The immortal Paul Baloff! HAIL!!!! My favorite quote is "This ain't no Arsenio Hall show, destroy something!"

The new Legion of the Damned is total @ss kickery too!! If you liked the last one, you're absolutely guaranteed to like the new one too. It's almost like they just made an extension to Malevolent Rapture and called it Sons of the Jackal.