drock89
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Post by drock89 on Dec 14, 2004 19:22:59 GMT -5
Does Mediabase work holidays? Like will there be updates on Christmas and New Years? The charts will get screwy next week with Christmas. Here comes Santa Claus!!  |
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EvanJ
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Post by EvanJ on Dec 15, 2004 21:34:55 GMT -5
I remember Mediabase taking a break of about 5 to 6 days in past years.
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Post by drock89 on Dec 15, 2004 21:47:53 GMT -5
I remember Mediabase taking a break of about 5 to 6 days in past years. Even though Christmas is on Saturday?? Wouldn't that mean a delay in the R&R charts? |
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Post by BlueAcoustic on Dec 16, 2004 9:50:38 GMT -5
Don't they freeze the charts for like 2-3 weeks around the holidays?
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Post by EvanJ on Dec 16, 2004 20:58:03 GMT -5
Radio and Records takes a two week break, normally making 50 charts a year. During the first break week the year-end charts are released. You can also look at Billboard's Top 20 for free every week (Billboard doesn't take a break).
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Post by Marv on Dec 17, 2004 0:33:21 GMT -5
Today's issue of R&R (dated 12-16) is their final issue of the year with charts in it.
R&R will not publish next week, but th y will publish an issue dated 12-31 which will NOT have any charts in it.
The charts will return in the first issue of R&R for 2005, which will hit the newsstands (at least here in Los Angeles) on 1-6-05, & dated 1-7-05
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Post by drock89 on Dec 17, 2004 6:48:30 GMT -5
Today's issue of R&R (dated 12-16) is their final issue of the year with charts in it. R&R will not publish next week, but th y will publish an issue dated 12-31 which will NOT have any charts in it. The charts will return in the first issue of R&R for 2005, which will hit the newsstands (at least here in Los Angeles) on 1-6-05, & dated 1-7-05 So does Mediabase freeze also? I kno that it R&R associated |
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Post by Marv on Dec 17, 2004 22:58:56 GMT -5
No, Mediabase, does NOT freeze; they keep counting airplay, right through the holidays. Until this year, R&Rs 'chart year' would begin with the issue which comes out on Thanksgiving Day, and their 'chart year' would begin with Mediabase's spin counts starting at 12:01 AM (EST) on the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
For some reason, R&R' s'chart year' for 2004 ended one week later than usual, with the issue dated 12-5-04, which would have used Mediabase's spin counts up until midnight on the Thursday AFTER Thanksgiving.
I don't have a problem with a December-to-December 'chart year'; I'm just mystified as to why their 2004 'chart year' ran one week longer than usual.
If you went to (www.mmr247.com/mmrweb/allaccess), clicked on 'Year-To-Date Results', and then clicked on 'Country' (or whichever format you were interested in), you would have found that 'When The Sun Goes Down' would have been #1 for the year, instead of 'Remember When'.
But since both trades and most of the entertainment conglomerates shut down during the final 10-14 days of the year, I don't have a problem with their chart years being structured as they are.
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drock89
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Post by drock89 on Dec 17, 2004 23:04:23 GMT -5
Thanks for ur response Marv. |
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Post by Marv on Dec 19, 2004 0:10:01 GMT -5
My pleasure!!
I've also read in that year-end issue of R&R that Shania's 'Up' CD hit the TEN million sales mark, and that Kenny Chesney's 'When The Sun Goes Down' hit he 4,000,000 sales mark, and finished at #3 in sales for the year overall, and #1 among country CDs.
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