Posted: 14 June 2006 at 4:38pm | IP Logged

 - I think thats what the majority of people do

With all due respect the system is still very new and fresh, so give others a chance

Oh and i havent noticed the same music in the charts at all - go listen to either the user/official its a mass variety

maybe you put many different genres under the label

Posted: 14 June 2006 at 8:05pm | IP Logged

You are actually incorrect.

Whilst it's possible that a track might have conceivably got to number one with ten votes during the initial couple of weeks (when the current chart system was being implemented and tested) it now takes 30+ ratings for a track to make the number one slot in the user charts. As a case to point the current Number One from MD-1 has 36 ratings against it. The track in the number 20 position has 11.

The official charts are based upon user nominations, and the system is completely fair. MD-1 has received more nominations, and more ratings than anyone else....reflecting in both charts. The reasons why are obvious. But agree, or disagree you can't criticise the users of the site for their voting habits, it's up to them! How else would you run a chart?????

As for the charts being 'pathetic and meaningless', they are essentially meaningless. Of course they are!! What do you want exactly? What do you want us to do in order to make things to your liking?

The user voted charts of a website dedicated to showcasing unsigned musicans are about as relevant and valid in the real world, (in relation to the corporate music business and the record buying public) as a fish to a bicycle! Artists get nothing whatsoever for making the number one slot, no money, no fame, no contract...nothing! A pat on the back on the message boards is about the extent of it.

I've never understood how people can take the whole chart thing so seriously, it's hardly life and death, or even particularly important in the general run of things is it?

Ok, so people should rate more. Fine, we all would agree with that on principle. I don't get a lot of ratings either. But I realise that this is mostly my own fault, for various reasons too diverse to go into here...but mostly because this sort of thing is reciprocal In other words if I was as prolific on the boards; and in commenting and rating others as MD-1, I might also be enjoying a lot of reciprocal rating in return.

I would suggest that rather than being so confrontational on the rant forum, you should get out there and start doing the legwork, commenting and voting for your fellow artists. Then, and only then will you start to get back what you put in.

To go onto the boards, with only six posts to your name and start bemoaning the fact that you are not in the charts is not the best way to commence.