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Post by webm@ster on Feb 8, 2007 11:48:08 GMT -5
A new website is ambitiously trying to set chart history wrongs right, by organising fans to download back catalogue singles simultaneously, in an attempt to push them to the top of the charts. 7digital, the company behind www.itshouldhavebeennumber1.co.uk, are taking advantage of new chart rules that mean download sales alone, can now be counted towards chart positions. A number of classic singles that missed the top spot are being targeted. First up is the loser in the great Britpop battle of 1995, Oasis’ “Roll With It”. The Gallaghers and co were pipped by Blur’s “Country House” that June, but maybe now they’ll be able to grab the coveted No 1 slot. Ultravox’s operatic synth-pop anthem “Vienna” (famously denied by Joe Dolce’s execrable “Shut Uppa Your Face”) and The Beatles double A-side “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever” (gazumped by Englebert Humperdinck’s soppy “Release Me”) are other singles ripe for reclaiming. The site will donate all proceeds of the track sales to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity, and explain their ambition by saying: “With your help, we plan to identify the songs we think were a number one hit, or should have been number one, but were kept from the top spot by some naff song.”
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2007 13:01:42 GMT -5
what a load of crap if anyone has money to waste give it to me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2007 0:13:59 GMT -5
Thanks a cool idea, I would do it but I can't download from the British iTunes.
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Post by leighc on Feb 9, 2007 8:49:19 GMT -5
if it wasnt good enough to get to no1 12 years ago why should it now
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2007 10:51:23 GMT -5
Thanks a cool idea, I would do it but I can't download from the British iTunes. why would you waste money on a song you already have ?
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Post by NoelandMeMay29 on Feb 11, 2007 13:43:36 GMT -5
The fact 'Wonderwall' was only a #2 is more of a crime.
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Post by Billy Davey ツ on Feb 11, 2007 21:30:02 GMT -5
the problem of these things is that it's not objetive, from the moment that fans notice it's altered. it's not a bad idea at all, it can make people know or remember great sogs that arent on recopilatories of no1
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