.. Because there isn't a thread for it so far.
Seems to happen more often thesedays, most recently for Rik Mayall's England Football song after his death, which actually managed to run for longer than the teams world cup run.
Anyway, it seems there's a lot of action regarding Cliff Richard's song "I still believe in you"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 06:45 (nine years ago) link
Number 57.
As you were...
― Mark G, Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
do these still work? can't think of any successful ones other than the rage against the machine and "ding dong the witch is dead" ones
― dyl, Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Well they did manage to get 3 versions of hallelujah going up the chart in descending order of quality
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Think the general feeling is wgaf tho
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
are there ever album download campaigns
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
how many flac (of if they were cheap mp3) copies of the grey wolves' 'catholic priests fuck children' lp would a determined polemicist have to purchase before they could get it into the top 75
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 24 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
do these still work?
The Cilla Black single campaign flopped last month ("Anyone Who Had a Heart" no 41), seemingly because everyone who was interested bought the best-of instead.
It worked in Germany this week – Die Ärzte's 'Schrei nach Liebe' went to number 1 as an anti-Nazi protest. It's not that much of a surprise - they're enough of a mainstream band to have been number 1 before. Also they're REALLY fucking good. That helps.
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 09:56 (eight years ago) link
From last month's EMP Pop Conference 2016 , something highly relevant and interesting and full of bunnies
Tom Ewing, “Vox Popular - The Charts as Soapbox in a Digital Era”
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2016/04/vox-popular-the-charts-as-soapbox-in-a-digital-era
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 22 May 2016 07:08 (seven years ago) link
oh that's terrific. tom ewing might be the best charts writer, both when it comes to the music on them and how they operate as a phenomenon
― dyl, Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link