And the Bland Played On

A couple of days ago I wrote about how ARIA were going to start counting YouTube views as well as what some would say the unholy alliance between the popular music charts and streaming resulting in a completely housebound chart going nowhere.

I showed an example of the latest top ten and how it seemed a number of tunes were just hanging around well past their expiry date. The latest chart has just been released and the staleness is even more pronounced. The same singles in the top ten this week were all exactly the same singles last week.

The list below was taken from a Top 50.

The top three alone have a combined total of 135 weeks.

It's the same old same old as the same old songs return to the same old chart positions reached as is the case with Heat Waves (a number one for six weeks about a year ago) or Stay (14 weeks at pole position around the middle of last year).

The music charts may not be dead as such but they still give off the stench of a cadaver in decay.