Wednesday, January 10, 2007

The Charts: Necessary?

Basically, we might as well abolish any form of official music charts because people are clearly uninterested in purchasing physical music anymore.

The "Dreamgirls" soundtrack (ew...) claims the #1 spot in the US this week with 66,000 copies sold. Paris Hilton's album sold more than that and still never made it to #1, thankfully.

Last week the UK charts announced they were allowing all downloads to compete for the #1 spot on the singles chart. This means I could vomit into a microphone, and as long as I can get it onto mp3 and make it available for download I could have a #1 hit in the United Kingdom.

Crap, I tell you. Complete crap.

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