BigChampagne has developed JK's idea about a new chart based on all the new forms of music consumption into "The Ultimmate Chart":

“The explosive popularity of music in the digital age has given us access to a quality of information about the connection between artists and fans previously unimagined. The internet launched a thousand charts. But the marketplace is asking, ‘ultimately, what does it all mean?’ There has been no satisfying answer, until now,” says Garland, BigChampagne’s Co-Founder and CEO. “The Ultimate Chart examines music sales and radio airplay and the access to music, and socializing around music, that are growing much faster. We’re rewriting the top of the charts for the new music business and en-listing the help of its chief architects to surface the most popular music that the charts have overlooked.”

http://www.ultimatechart.com/

No Rock did a good job of dissecting the press release tho.

xrrf.blogspot.com/2010/07/chart-horizon-...pagne-list-most.html

Very good assessment. I fear it is not the chart I would have created in Pop-I - the Popularity Index.

Whatever happened to The Fab Chart? I don't miss it as I didn't think it was a good concept as it was done anonymously without any guidance on how it was put together.

The Ultimate chart is a little more transparent but still much too vague to gain mass acceptance.

Any chart that wants credibility has to be totally open about how it is compiled. It's why the BIGTOP40 That replaced Hit40UK on Capital and other ILR sataions hasn't worked. Nobody knows/understands how it is put together or what it means.

At least with the OCC Chart, you know what it stands for. It really does tell us what was the best selling song in the previous week.It's accurate and consistant, with no secretive methodology.

Dixie, I agree 100% with what you have said. You put it much better than me.

What the Fab Chart and Ultimate Chart has to realise is that there will always be people who want to manipulate the charts. The only way you can show that your chart is unbiased is to state how it has been constructed.