Many massive selling records in these genres failed to chart or if they did the chart placing was not a true reflection of the discs popularity. Those earlier charts were created from a very narrow sample that tended to omit specialist shops that for example focused on Reggae or Soul/R&B. And tell me that doesn't skew the charts even further.Ĭlick to expand.It's not easy comparing the charts of yesteryear with those of 2021. My local mega Sainsburys had one title in the whole of their shop last week. Not helped of course by the total lack of places to actually buy CDs and records these days. The lack of actual "sales" now is camouflaged by the streaming equations that have nothing to do with going into a shop (or clicking on a purchase online). Now it's become the norm.in high, down to the 80s or 90s next week, and then gone. In the 1980s, it was rare for an album to chart inside the Top 5 and not last at least a month on the Top 100. Not dozens of catalogue albums racking up hundreds of weeks on end, interspersed with a limited selection of the same old mega acts' doing likewise with their latest offering(s). I regularly analyse old album charts and they were in much better health back in the 80s and even as late as 1994.Ī good mixture of strong-selling recent studio releases (ie under a year) and some Greatest Hits sets that again would be within a fairly recent timeframe. These specialist charts have been compiled but never gained real significance with the UK public- few folks here would quote stats from the specialist UK charts whereas the US R&B, Country chart etc are regularly cited. Also important to note that the UK also avoided the promotion of "sub genre" charts on a par with the Official Singles & Albums. Of course radio and it's impact has been greatly reduced in the 21st century. It's only in the past 25 years that the UK saw the emergence of genre focussed stations similar in format to the US. Commercial radio stations became established through the 70s and beyond. Here in the UK we had fewer radio stations- the BBC held a monopoly for decades that was eventually broken by the pirate stations in the mid 60s. Divided by race and music genre this is so deeply entrenched in US cultural life- extending even to TV. Click to expand.Agree, Americans appear to be single train lines! The radio format that was established back in the 50s 60s and early 70s created musical ghettos. Look back at ABBA's full Official UK Chart history here. Their greatest hits collection Gold is the only album to spend more than 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart and is the second bestselling album of all time in the UK, with 5.61 million copies sold as of August 2021. Work on the concert series has involved months of motion-capture performances and an 850-strong team.ĪBBA have scored nine Number 1 singles and nine Number 1 albums in the UK. The digital ABBAtars of Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus will perform their two new singles and greatest hits accompanied by a live 10-piece band.ĪBBA's digital counterparts have been created by Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects company founded by George Lucas. General ticket sales for the ABBA Voyage show, which begins on start on Tuesday, September 7 at 10am. MORE: View ABBA's official Top 20 biggest songs in the UKĭigital versions of the iconic Swedish pop group will perform as part of a world-first residency in support of their new album in the specially constructed ABBA Arena in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Voyage, the new album, will contain a total of 10 new tracks, with one Christmas song that could even see the group in contention for this year's coveted Christmas Number 1. If so, then they would clinch the group their 20th and 21st UK Top 10 entries respectfully. Two new songs - I Still Have Faith In You and Don't Shut Me Down - were released to coincide with the announcement, and are on course to debut in the Top 10 of the Official Singles Chart this Friday. In a worldwide stream on Thursday (September 2) ABBA confirmed plans to reunite for the first time in 40 four decades.
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