Chart ban over multiple downloads..

[IGBT]

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On investigation it found the sales had come from a small number of people buying hundreds of copies.

The Modern said they were saddened but accepted the ruling.

"Due to over-enthusiastic members of the band's fans and family, an unacceptable number of records were ordered per person online," a spokesman said.

"Sadly, rather than these sales ending up supporting the band, this has resulted in The Modern's chart position of number 13 being deemed invalid according to The Official Charts Company's strict rules and regulations."

 

[FoBoT]

i don't get it, what difference does it make who buys it? isnt' the chart position a sales indicator? sales is sales? right?

no?

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i don't get it, what difference does it make who buys it? isnt' the chart position a sales indicator? sales is sales? right?

no?

Yeah, but they lose their credibility if you can buy chart position by purchasing mass quantities of the song. You could conceivably have a service that you can pay to make thousands of downloads on your band's behalf. That wouldn't be any good.

Although instead of outright disqualifying the band, they should really just set their system up to ignore more than X number of sales to a single person.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Originally posted by: JzeroYou could conceivably have a service that you can pay to make thousands of downloads on your band's behalf.

You mean this isn't ALREADY being done by a number of artists/record companies? *cough*Sony*cough*