Dame Vera Lynn Tops Itune Charts With Land Of Hope And Glory

[burlyshirley]

Will BBC have to play it now when they play the chart hits every week ?

[Theland]

Yes I'm looking forward to it.
If the pubs aren't locked down I will venture out for my pint of non alc liquid and raise my voice with the rest.

[bednobs]

The bbc don't play the top 40 any more do they?

[Theland]

Don't know but live in hope that Aunty will report Veras popularity.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkgn

This week's official chart

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/

[fiction-factory]

Just to update Mamyalynn's charts link, the midweek update is out now and there is no sign of Land of Hope and Glory yet. I hope it does make it as it might keep BTS off, but it's very unlikely in my opinion. Downloads account for a fair part of the charts but streams are also important and I doubt many are streaming and listening to the song regularly.
Even if it were to make number one there is no reason for BBC to play it. Top of the Pops finished years ago, as did Radio 1s Sunday chart show. The charts hardly get a mention on Radio 1 or Radio 2 (apart from when Gambo plays the top 20 from maybe 25 and 35 years ago on Saturdays). Radio 1 and 1Extra will simply play the music its audiences want and that'll be Stormzy or Drake than Vera Lynn.
Would still send a message if it could make the charts though.

[fiction-factory]

The missing link:
https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart-update/

[fiction-factory]

If we really want it to top the charts someone would have to come up with a dance on Tik Tok and maybe get a version with explicit lyrics I'm afraid. These days it's okay to sing about "A kilo of crack's a hell of a meal", b1tchcez, nigazz, wifey and guns but not to say "britons never will be slaves"

[ichkeria]

Scott Mills hosts the chart show on Radio 1

[fiction-factory]

Yes, he reveals the chart on Friday afternoon but only plays a selection of tracks, though and will sometimes only play a clip from a song, and there's all the usual chatter in between and innuendo bingo no doubt still features. I don't know whether he played the Michael Ball/ Capt Tom Moore one a few months ago during the chart reveal but my guess is he didn't play it in full.

[ichkeria]

This is nothing new btw.
But I saw your earlier post and thought: that’s surely not right .

[fiction-factory]

What was "surely not right", ich?

[ichkeria]

Well you said that the charts were hardly mentioned, and suggested they’d binned the chart show altogether if you didn’t say so explicitly. Goodness knows who listens to it - all they songs sounds the same to me :-)
Long gone are the days when the nation, fresh from listening to the FA Cup draw on a Monday lunchtime, crowded round its Radio sets the next day to hear Johnny Walker play the top five at lunchtime.

[fiction-factory]

Yes, there is a chart show on Scott Mills but it's a whizz through and doesn't have the excitement of the Johnny Walker Tuesday lunchtime reveal of the top 30 (when loads of used to crowd round my 'tranny'), then TOTP ran down the whole top 30 on Thursdays and finally the whole chart was played in full on Sunday evenings. In those days DJ's, such as Tony Blackburn, often referred to the chart position when playing records on their show but now often don't mention the artist never mind the chart position. Several of my friends and I used to write down the charts every week and predict chart positions. I can still remember the chart trajectory of some records in the 1970s and can remember what was number 2 when something was number 1. Nowadays teenagers may know what is number one but won't have a clue a sto other chart positions, and most get their music from Tik Tok and Capital rather the BBC

[douglas9401]

Can someone point to this mythical land on a map please?

It would be a nice change to visit it from this ill-managed, downtrodden, led by donkeys one.

[fiction-factory]

>all they songs sounds the same to me

Exactly what my parents used to say 50 years ago as I listened to my music and watched TOTP. And probably what my grandparents said to them in the 1950s

[douglas9401]

Your parents and grandparents were wrong then, FF, but if they were able to comment on the outpourings from the music factory these days they'd be right on the money.

Even the sainted Ken Bruce includes some of the repetitive dross in his shows.

[ladybirder]

What's happened to Radio Caroline? Is it still around? 9pm on a Monday wasn't it for the charts?

[fiction-factory]

And Radio Luxembourg- Tuesday evenings I recall

[allenlondon]

One of the best versions of Pomp & circumstance I ever heard was when it was played, blasting out, as the soundtrack of a film showing a line of dozens of soldiers, each one blinded by gas, hand on the shoulder of the man in front, as they stumbled across the mud and potholes towards a life of... Hope & Glory? Freedom?

Apparently Elgar shared my abhorrence for the dreadful words so artificially attached to his music.

[andres]

Why don't they play a recorded version of' Land of Hope and Glory' at the Proms and let the depleted audience sing along..