THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE MR SWYGART EXORCISES HIS FURY AT THE NEW CHART SHOW

also haha but no.

Theme thus far:

JK & Joel are BLOKES. STRAIGHT BLOKES. THEY WATCH THE FOOTBALL. THEY HAVE QUITE PROBABLY DONE HOSPITAL RADIO.

This really is making me quite unwell. Anyone tuning in now may have missed the worst of it. but by God it's gonna be a struggle...

I think this might be the end of this column.

nooo!!!

Fucking Radio One.

because i was sick of tracks i didn't like that had been in the charts for two months or more and here they were dropping from 34 to 37 so let's hear it again even tho it's on the radio all the time anyway.

On the other side, that "Kiss on the lips my lover" track I ended up getting, purely on that one play, there.

Now I'm making the Chart show sound like the old John Peel show. But there are parallells.

My prediction: Ratings plunge to all time low in a matter of months. This show needs someone fairly knowledgeable (i mean fairly.. Not even slightly extensive). It's as high a profile show as the John Peel show was, and even though the replacement for his show is not exactly satisfactory, it at least is trying to fulfil the brief.

The chart show was always the 'elder statesman' fronted and had a worldwide audience. From the sounds of things, JK and Joel don't exactly 'travel'. (I have no problem with they two on their own show, but there seems to be one heck of a lot of 'they're the new hip guys around here, lets stick them on...)

(I have a sneaking suspicion that Dick and Dom have more musical perspective than JK and Joel. )

i say stick with the random guest presenters. i don't know why the people in charge think it's better to have a fixed choice - HIGNFY and indeed Top Of The Pops are two shows that benefitted very well imo from having a different presenter every week. this would give the chart show some unpredictable fun spark, with people listening to the charts because it's the charts, not because of who is presenting it (please learn, Radio 1 and others).

Yes it has, Mark..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32019327

BBC Radio 1 is moving its chart show to Friday afternoons, where it will become part of Greg James's drivetime show.

"The days of recording your favourite songs from the chart onto cassette are long gone," said Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper.
"So when the global release date changes to a Friday, we will also move the Official Chart, continuing our commitment to stay relevant to young music fans of today".

A chart countdown has been part of Radio 1's Sunday schedule for nearly 50 years, starting with Alan Freeman's Pick Of The Pops, in 1967.

Until 1987, the new chart was actually announced on a Tuesday, and the following Sunday's show just played the countdown in full. From 1987, however, improved technology enabled the station to receive the week's chart data in time to announce the new number one on the three-hour Sunday show.

Cooper confirmed the new show would be an hour shorter than the current incarnation, airing from 16:00 to 18:00 GMT, allowing the Dance Anthems slot to remain on the schedule.

"That means we will not be playing every single record in the Top 40," he said. "We will be a little bit more choosy about the records we play in those two hours."

This was a bit of an eye opener when someone tweeted a link to it yesterday:
http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/physical-singles-chart/

Erasure? Bowie? Tony McPhee? It's like another, secret world.

".. and up 26 places to 28, it's the Poguetry In Motion e.p. by The Pogues!"