'Digital Only' music releases discounted by UK Charts...

goldilocks · 18-01-2009, 10:51

As a music lover I was most disappointed to learn that the UK charts will only recognise sales success of artists who release both digital and pressed releases.
Surely in this digital age, and with the decline in music retail (Zavvi, Woolworth etc.) it is unjust to negate sales of digital only releases. It seems that by discrediting digital only releases they are able to discount a large portion of legal music sales in the UK - at the detriment of new / unsigned / young musicians.

To penalise musicians who obviously have the talent but lack the financial backing to be able to release a CD seems to be a very blinkered and prohibitive way of running the ‘Chart’.

I don't know how much other people care about this - but it really rattled my cage to find this out.
I really can't believe that this is allowed to continue in what is meant to be a creative industry?!

Corporate whores!!

18-01-2009, 10:51	#1
goldilocks Abandoned Ship Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 335	'Digital Only' music releases discounted by UK Charts... As a music lover I was most disappointed to learn that the UK charts will only recognise sales success of artists who release both digital and pressed releases. Surely in this digital age, and with the decline in music retail (Zavvi, Woolworth etc.) it is unjust to negate sales of digital only releases. It seems that by discrediting digital only releases they are able to discount a large portion of legal music sales in the UK - at the detriment of new / unsigned / young musicians. To penalise musicians who obviously have the talent but lack the financial backing to be able to release a CD seems to be a very blinkered and prohibitive way of running the ‘Chart’. I don't know how much other people care about this - but it really rattled my cage to find this out. I really can't believe that this is allowed to continue in what is meant to be a creative industry?! Corporate whores!!