You heard them, just as plainly as we did: “Empires will fall!”, “Your entire perception of popular music will change!”, “JK and Joel will have something interesting to talk about!”, yet despite all the crazy promises, the new chart rules (which, in case you’ve been in a New Year coma, allow legal downloads to go into the chart without “a physical presence in the shops”) failed to throw up anything even remotely interesting. Of course, Victoria Newton will tell you that a nine-month-old song by Snow Pa-fucking-trol re-entering at number nine is interesting, but what does she know? Precisely.
Indeed, the only good things to come out of the situation were the much-welcomed reappearances of ‘Monster’, ‘Crazy’ and ‘Maneater’, and the faint hope that maybe, at some point, an absolute bollock-breaker of a song will go on a crazy word-of-mouth rampage up the chart, leaving the entrails of Blunt, Melua et al strewn EVERYWHERE and “industry bods” weeping into their “release strategies”.
OK, we did say faint hope - it’s far more likely to happen the other way around - but where would we be without sweet, faint, blind hope? Certainly not here, that‘s for sure:
Long live blind hope!
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