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I am of a generation who remembers taping our favourite songs from the radio on a Sunday, eagerly waiting to see what chart position it had reached, then quickly hitting record on my tape recorder.
Over the years I amassed dozens of incredibly badly created mix tapes, all with the characteristic “clunk” at the start and end of every recording – sometimes with a bit of the next or previous track included.
The music industry has changed a lot since then.
Woolworths became the main seller of CD singles and albums on the high street, but when they folded this revenue stream dried up.
Legal downloads now outnumber sales of CDs, and streaming music is slowly taking over – And with many streaming sites providing free streaming, we are spending less and less on music.
The artists know this, hence the promotion of Tidal. It was only a couple of years ago that they were complaining that people were ripping them off by illegally downloading music; now they are complaining that they don’t get paid enough by the streaming sites.
What about the money that they get from Performing Rights Certificates issued charged to businesses that play music which people can hear? Many hairdressers (and countless other businesses) in the
Maybe I’m old fashioned, or just plain old, but moving the official chart from a Sunday to a Friday might fit in with the music industry, but it’s taking away a Sunday tradition that I’m sure many thousands of people have grown up with.
Maybe I’m wrong, and today’s teenagers are perfectly happy with downloading/streaming and never listen to the official
There is also the possibility that many people will see what’s trending on their streaming app of choice, and this acts as their personal version of the charts.
Today is a landmark in the
No doubt previous generations will have nostalgic memories of how Sunday afternoons used to be.
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