Are Facebook groups ruining the credibility of the charts?

[Kaffo]

The X-Factor campaign was one thing. Now they want Ultravox to be No 1 twenty odd years after the record was released. Yes it was a very popular song, but it is Vienna's legend that it was beaten by a novelty record to the No 1 spot.
You can't just go changing history because it wasn't fair.
Does anyone else agree?

[Captain Aidan]

Totally agree, in my opinion these kinds of Facebook groups devalue the charts; also, a number 1 spot achieved through a Facebook push is just novelty value and royalties, it's nowhere near the same as reaching no.1 when the song actually comes out.

[Matt]

Don't worry about it, it's not important. Besides, you can't change the past anyway. What happened happened. If a bunch of people want to retroactively update how they feel something should have gone good for them.

[Luke808666]

I don't care about charts, I listen to music for my own personal enjoyment, so charts are irrelevant to me.
I don't use facebook so I don't care about facebook either.

[Jimmy Jazz]

Back in the 50s record companies used to pay radio stations to play songs from their artists. It was called payola. About 5 years then NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer intiated lawsuits, that were later settled out of court, against Sony, Warner, and Universal for payola related crimes. So exactly what credibility have the charts ever had?

[firesign]

I agree with Jimmy. The charts do one thing only: track how many copies have been sold. They are a chart of sales.

How a certain number of sales happens is not to be controlled by the charts, nor are they a measure of quality, just popularity. If a song is a popular fad 20 years after release instead of the week of, then the charts still have an obligation to report the fact.

[tuesday]

I think the fact that you can go onto a gameshow and win a number one single ruined the credibilty of the charts before Facebook did. I do agree with you, but, it's only the charts. Let the people who actually care who's number one get on with it.

[Amnesiac]

You lost me with "the credibility of the charts".