Brain dead BBC and OCC and music industry; they are SO confused by the current music scene that And and Dec's brand new hit has DROPPED to No1 and been on the singles chart for 16 weeks!

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles

Question is - if PJ & Duncan were sort of 'the worst of 1994' in terms of quality, what would happen if something 'good' was promoted on TV now? Revelation? Or is a "90s Revival" in full flow - the "90s" meaning all of those heavily manufactured acts on 'The Big Reunion', suggesting what I've suggested elsewhere in a burying of 'good' pop culture to present the past as much the same as today? What next - a Deuce revival? The mid-late 90s were the point when "pop music" was deliberately divorced from what pop music had been in the 60s, 70s & 80 (ie creative & intelligent)?

I was asked to produce them years ago by Matthew Robinson (Tom's older brother and a fellow Cambridge student with me) but declined.

I've nothing against the PJ & Duncan records - indeed, I could name them all and only a couple (OUR Radio Rocks! for instance) were awful - but they were brushing shoulders in the charts with the the Britpop cocktail, loads of joyous dance music as well as other varied acts from Celine Dion & the Bee Gees to The Beautiful South & REM.
Now the singles chart is full of sub-PJ & Duncan pap-pop normally originating from reality television & joyless dance music. The variety has been eradicated.

JK2006 wrote:
Brain dead BBC and OCC and music industry; they are SO confused by the current music scene that And and Dec's brand new hit has DROPPED to No1 and been on the singles chart for 16 weeks!

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles

I doubt it's anything to do with OCC. Weeks on chart is based on previous entries. (Though the number might be incorrect).

8.30pm; 267 people have seen this yet the BBC still haven't changed it; the new No1 is still going down the chart.

Nobody cares anymore.