Trevor wrote:
"hank alrich" wrote in message
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It's not up to you or me to define what is a hit. Billboard did that
for
decades.
They mainly listed the top 40 for most of them. But Billboard was not
given
a right to decide by God in any case.
They determined it according to numbers. It ain't like this **** is
religion. For quite a while Neilson Soundscan is how the numbers are
gathered.
Right, a sampled suryvey open to big errors. And the cut off of top 10, top
40, top 100, top 1,000, top 1 million, is simply whatever they or you choose
at any given time. Hardly something to be so pig headed about!
"Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data for Nielsen since March 1,
1991"
Something maybe you should look into if you want to sound like you know
something about this.
My opinion is as valid (or not) as
yours or theirs.
Show your work. Let's see your numbers. talk is cheap, as are opinions.
They're working from stats. You?
Me, I prefer REAL figures like *actual* total sales world wide. (but even
the record companies cheat, so those figures are not accurate either,
usually far better than the radio station, and billboard Top10/40/100 list
however)
See above. Some aspects of the business stil use an outdated
methodology, but the charts have been based on sales for more than two
decades.
That YOU don't think anyone else is even entitled to an opinion on the
matter says a lot for your arrogance, but little else.
Opinions may or may not be based on knowledge or experience. I weight
them accordingly.
And IMO actual sales are far more indicative than chart positions which
don't account for total sales, and depend largely on the strength of the
competition at the time of release.
Numbers are determined by adding up the scans at the point of sale.
AFAIK you were around long before scans existed, just as I was. They simply
sampled a number of *selected* resale outlets for their sales figures,
however the shops compiled them.
And surely you remember all the rigging that went on at the time, and payola
in the broadcast industry to increase sales. Or is you memory going?
"Sales data from cash registers is collected from 14,000 retail, mass
merchant, and non-traditional (on-line stores, venues, digital music
services, etc.) outlets in the United States, Canada and the U.K."
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