The British pop charts will undergo one of the biggest shake-ups since its debut in 1952. Up to now, only songs which were physically available for purchase in stores were counted toward the weekly chart. But all that will change on Sunday, when any song digitally downloaded from the Internet will be able to compete for the number one single spot.
"For a long time we've wanted the chart to reflect what the consumers are actually buying ... It means any track when it's available digitally it can chart. To that degree, there's a real level playing field there," a spokesman for the BPI (the British record industry's trade body) told Reuters.
This major change of rules literally means that any track could be a hit. Even yours! Well.. as long as it sells enough copies (and downloads).
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Certainly music biz tries everything to look pretty while heading south. To me that looks like another desperate effort to let music biz appear more successful than it actually is... Have a look at the definition of those Platin, Gold and Silver categories of now and then and you'll know what I mean. Universal's total loss in 2006 was 30% regarding ALL genres...