I thought UK radio DJs could skew chart results since at least the advent of Star Trekkin' in the early 70s.
>________________________________ > From: Kevin M. <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:09 PM >Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] The Best Singing Competition? > > >The joke in the UK is that,every year at Christmastime, X Factor contestants >release a version of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah, and it skews and >distorts normal sales of music singles. A few years back one if the radio DJs >told listeners to all buy the same '80s pop song to further screw with the >numbers. In short, in the UK music sales aren't effective as a gauge anymore. >The new standard there, and the same is happening here, are concert tickets. > >On Friday, December 21, 2012, PGage wrote: > > >> >>Okay - so the ratings are in for the X-Factor Finale, and now we have the >>full comparisons for the two singing shows this Fall vs AI last Spring: >> >> >>The Voice 12-12: 2.4 (Demo); 8.071M (Total Viewers) >>X-Factor 12-12: 3.1 (Demo); 9.66M (Total Viewers) >>American Idol 5-12: 6.1 (Demo); 20.71M (Total Viewers) >> >> >>AI got a higher Demo rating, and more total viewers, last spring than The >>Voice and the X-Factor got combined this week. >> >> >>By the numbers then, I guess AI is the best singing show, followed by the >>X-Factor with The Voice bringing up the rear. That is distorted by just how >>deep of a black ratings hole NBC has been I suppose - if X-Factor and The >>Voice switched networks their numbers would probably be >>basically reversed also. >> >> >>I can't think of a good way to compare these shows directly in terms of how >>many "records" (I am not sure what they call a downloaded song) contestants >>from them have sold, or concert tickets they have sold. This is complicated >>because it seems the shows take turns with some kind of special relationship >>with i-tunes. Maybe it was just the freak association with the US women's >>gymnastics teams during the Olympics, but even just limiting it to >>a comparison over the last 12 months it seems like the AI contestants have >>made left more of a footprint in pop music than the other two shows. >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
