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Chart ponder

February 1st, 2007 · Posted by Skuds in Music · No Comments

I have been pondering the implication of new rules for the music charts: not only allowing downloads to count, but not having to have any physical product available in the shops.

The question is this: if someone downloads, say, the new Amy Winehouse album which includes a couple of singles in the charts, would that count as one sale for each of the singles?  Does it make a difference if you download a track as part of an album or on its own?  If you download an album track-by-track is it treated differently to downloading the whole album as a package?

There must be something to prevent a really big-selling album resulting in its tracks, including 'filler', taking up the top 12 places in the singles chart… mustn't there? 

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