Morrissey Central ""Beethoven Was Deaf" number 20 UK Official Chart today" (July 29, 2024)

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"Beethoven Was Deaf" number 20 UK Official Chart today - MESSAGES FROM MORRISSEY - MORRISSEY CENTRAL - "Beethoven Was Deaf" number 20 UK Official Chart today

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[Famous when dead]

The album chart is essentially meaningless these days (for the reasons outlined in that Guardian article) - it's too easy to game the chart so that a new release goes in very high and then simply disappears the following week.

I still believe the singles chart is a pretty good measure of what people are listening to, despite the crazy complexity of the metrics they're using these days. It's doing a very good job of showing - to pick just one example - the ever increasing popularity of a song like Chappell Roan's "Hot to Go" which has spent the last ten weeks climbing steadily from #95 to #19, as more and more people realise it's a stone cold classic of its kind...

The music industry is engineering artist popularity – listeners are right to be angry

Numerous tactics, including payola-like deals on Spotify, are promoting artists people haven’t chosen to hear – but the industry refuses to discuss it

www.theguardian.com

 

[Fact Checker]

The album chart is essentially meaningless these days (for the reasons outlined in that Guardian article) - it's too easy to game the chart so that a new release goes in very high and then simply disappears the following week.

The original release of BWD went in at #3... and then vanished. Nobody thought that chart position meant anything 30 years ago, except that Moz had a hardcore fanbase who would buy absolutely anything and the rest of the world wouldn't need to notice.

 

[BookishBoy]

The original release of BWD went in at #3... and then vanished. Nobody thought that chart position meant anything 30 years ago, except that Moz had a hardcore fanbase who would buy absolutely anything and the rest of the world wouldn't need to notice.

Your overall point is correct, that albums by cult artists could disappear quickly even 30 years ago, but BWD charted at #13 and then went down to #42 and then fell off the chart.

 

[Seymour Glass]

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You can find great music if you look for it, Bandcamp has loads of great stuff that isn't on Spotify, and anyone that listens to FM radio these days deserves the shite they get.

 

[DagenhamDan]

Your overall point is correct, that albums by cult artists could disappear quickly even 30 years ago, but BWD charted at #13 and then went down to #42 and then fell off the chart.

It's mad but 2 or 3 weeks on the album chart now is like a huge success. Kill Uncle I think made 4 weeks in 1991 and was deemed a huge flop. But now....

 

[Fact Checker]

As the man said in an interview in 1985, Meat Is Murder went in at #1 but within 12 weeks it wasn't in the top 100.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

I cried a little bit looking at that. I mean, compare That to the current iteration of Morrissey, 2024: (RIP Paul Lynde).
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Smiler’s video is wrong time period!

How can you of all people approve that fan video!? Lol.

Anyway, both Paul and M, geniuses in their way. Mozi would only be flattered by the comparison.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

“It was the best of times…”

‘It's only fair
You should tell the little kids they live in hell now’

 

[Surface]

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Are they using their industry chart app again?
Not seeing a #20 anywhere..

Wonder why he posts info that no one else can see, it’s just makes him look foolish.

 

[Orange Crush]

You can find great music if you look for it, Bandcamp has loads of great stuff that isn't on Spotify, and anyone that listens to FM radio these days deserves the shite they get.

Yes, there is some great music if you look for it. You failed to mention my music collection!

 

[smiler]

Smiler’s video is wrong time period!

How can you of all people approve that fan video!? Lol.

Anyway, both Paul and M, geniuses in their way. Mozi would only be flattered by the comparison.

The clips are taken from a concert that happened just over a year before Beefoven was recorded. Thanks for the feedback zoom how's fat larry btw?

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

The clips are taken from a concert that happened just over a year before Beefoven was recorded. Thanks for the feedback zoom how's fat larry btw?

Yep. A different year. He was a year younger, Johnnie might not forgive you, now that it’s been pointed out. My post was in absolutely no way a criticism of your video, videos that I do enjoy btw.

Oh, Larry’s doing fine, lol

 

[Young And Alive]

I cried a little bit looking at that. I mean, compare That to the current iteration of Morrissey, 2024: (RIP Paul Lynde).

People age. It's not a crime.

 

[Young And Alive]

Do the charts even mean anything any more? In many ways you can't find a better symbol of how our lives have been fractured and disjointed by technology - all the ties and bonds that brought us together have been dissolved in the digital 'stream'. Thatcher's dictum that there is no such thing as society, brought to grim reality, or hyper-reality. Is it any wonder that rates of mental illness in teenagers have gone through the roof? I look to the future, it makes me cry...

Still No 1? How the music charts lost their lustre

The Top 40 used to bring the UK together. But since the streaming revolution, what we listen to has become increasingly hard to tally

www.theguardian.com

I used to think that losing touch with what was in the charts was just a sign of me getting old. But there's more to it than that.

There's more media out there than ever before. Not just music - TV shows, films, podcasts. You name it. It's impossible to keep up with it all.

People consume whatever it is that they're into on demand from the comfort of their own home. You can watch whatever you like whenever you like. If you want music, you can stream whatever you want with just a few taps of your phone. You are no longer a slave to whatever Top of the Pops or Radio 1 DJs throw at you.

People across the country used to watch TV together and then talk about it the next day at work or in school. We've lost that now. We're all away doing our own separate things on our own separate devices.

Culturally I think that's been very damaging.

 

[goinghome]

‘It's only fair
You should tell the little kids they live in hell now’

https://www.godlyplayfoundation.org...nversation-the-power-of-talk-in-a-digital-age

 

[Johnnie Ray]

People age. It's not a crime.

Indeed. My point is that he is not aging well or gracefully.

 

[Seymour Glass]

Indeed. My point is that he is not aging well or gracefully.

So why do you come to this site? Us real fans are happy that he's still playing and that his voice sounds better than ever. You should consider getting a life.

 

[sotob]

When it first came out I was curious as to why it was an 'import' only release - aka - hard to find, having recently released Your Arsenal on a major, etc, etc.

Either way, happy that my copy is on its way. Wish they kept the original cover....

 

[Light Housework]

 

[Iamhatedforloving]

Didn't make the Top 100 in UK Official Album Charts...came on at Number 7 on UK Official Vinyl Album Charts