Ex-Ryman Club Make The Top 40!!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

How bizarre - Yeovil Town FC have a new entry in the lower reaches of this week's Top 40, despite it only being on sale in one shop in Britain!!

 

I thought there were chart rules against singles which have been bulk-bought in one area??

 

Fair play, though.

 

I wonder whether Radio One had a copy to hand, to play in their chart run-down yesterday!??

 

I'd be interested in how many copies have been sold, as I'm pretty sure that these days, you only need to sell about 250-500 copies to have a Top 40 single.

 

Hope for me yet!!

 

 

[EFM's Librarian]

Apparently it was only on sale in one shop in Yeovil, which makes it even more amazing!

 

Can't do scrabble on this computer, but should be ready in about 10 mins

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Libro - indeed I mentioned the "one shop" thing!!

 

Ten minutes is good, mate!!

 

 

[EFM's Librarian]

I've got half an hour before my next lecture if you fancy another beating Zeal <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I logged on especially to mention this bizarre record, should of known Zeal would get there first!

 

Firstly I thought that the charts had to be refelctive of sales over the whole country, basically it had to sell steady over the whole nation to chart and not just in a region, the charts were nevr 100% sales, this was brought in to stop chart fixing because if I owned a chart shop in St.Albans I could just spend a week scanning Paul Jones "Better Life" and it would rocket into the Top 40.

 

Personally it smells of chart fixing, you still need to sell a good few thousand copies to make the Top 40 in a week, doubt wether 500 copies would even get you into the Top 100.

Makes it even more bizarre when the likes of Southampton didn't even chart with their FA Cup final song!

 

Maybe the single came free with entry to a game!

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Extensive research has found that they sold around 3,500 copies to make the Top 40. Perhaps the singles chart isn't quite as moribund as I suspected.

 

All from one shop? I smell a rat.

 

Indeed, the chart compilers are usually very stringent about bulk-buying in one particular area, so as I said in my original post, I'm surprised they've allowed this to happen.

 

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Quote:

the charts were nevr 100% sales

The official Radio One chart is compiled 100% on sales.

Other charts like the Pepsi chart etc. also take airplay into account.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Sorry, what I meant was total sales (I know it's 100% sales) so for example a single that sold 3,250 copies all over the country would probably he higher in the charts than one that sold 3,500 in Yeovil, because as I said it's meant to be reflective of the country - which is why there are local charts also (I bet Yeovil are number one down that way)

Hope this cleared it up!