And If You Should See Dave.....

[Mathew S]

JJ has tested positive for COVID but has no symptoms and his partner is negative. He’s also had his first vaccine and will stay in France until he gets the go ahead to travel

Wasn't he coming over to record some vocals in Japanese and French?

Yes and to record 3 songs acoustically and discuss Dark Matters for future Rat Chats

[toilerinblack]

He said on the interview he felt fine which is a good thing.

[STEVEh]

The song hasn’t made it onto Radio 2 or 6 Music’s playlists this week.

The band as of this morning are number 3 in the Apple I Tunes Rock Chart behind Noel Gallagher and Texas. They are number 40 in the overall chart.

However, that is based on sales ie people have purchased the track. On the Apple Music platform the band are not in the top 100. This is based on the number of times a track is played. In this chart one artist called J Cole has 8 of the top ten.

Noel Gallagher doesn’t feature either all of which gives a big indication of how hard it is to get in the charts these days.


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[jason]

The song hasn’t made it onto Radio 2 or 6 Music’s playlists this week.

The band as of this morning are number 3 in the Apple I Tunes Rock Chart behind Noel Gallagher and Texas. They are number 40 in the overall chart.

However, that is based on sales ie people have purchased the track. On the Apple Music platform the band are not in the top 100. This is based on the number of times a track is played. In this chart one artist called J Cole has 8 of the top ten.

Noel Gallagher doesn’t feature either all of which gives a big indication of how hard it is to get in the charts these days.


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How can a great song like this not make it on to their playlist? Unbelievable!!!!!

[aldinblack]

The song hasn’t made it onto Radio 2 or 6 Music’s playlists this week.

The band as of this morning are number 3 in the Apple I Tunes Rock Chart behind Noel Gallagher and Texas. They are number 40 in the overall chart.

However, that is based on sales ie people have purchased the track. On the Apple Music platform the band are not in the top 100. This is based on the number of times a track is played. In this chart one artist called J Cole has 8 of the top ten.

Noel Gallagher doesn’t feature either all of which gives a big indication of how hard it is to get in the charts these days.


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Such a shame its not made those playlists, I just don't understand why a British band that's been active for so long, and has even recently lost one of the best keyboard players within the English "rock music" genre, continues to get largely ignored.

Not too many things annoy me anymore, but this pisses me off still now..

Also do you have a link to this chart as I couldn't find any trace of the song when checking "official charts"
Cheers

The song is a grower for sure, love the JJ/Baz "harmonies"..

[parasiteinblack]

The chart update for the official chart will be available on Monday evening so we'll have a good idea of how things are going at that point.

Very disappointing about not getting playlisted.

[toilerinblack]

The song hasn’t made it onto Radio 2 or 6 Music’s playlists this week.

The band as of this morning are number 3 in the Apple I Tunes Rock Chart behind Noel Gallagher and Texas. They are number 40 in the overall chart.

However, that is based on sales ie people have purchased the track. On the Apple Music platform the band are not in the top 100. This is based on the number of times a track is played. In this chart one artist called J Cole has 8 of the top ten.

Noel Gallagher doesn’t feature either all of which gives a big indication of how hard it is to get in the charts these days.


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good info from you here thanks

[sendwarrior]

JJ has tested positive for COVID but has no symptoms and his partner is negative. He’s also had his first vaccine and will stay in France until he gets the go ahead to travel

I hope he's ok.

Yes he's fine, just pissed off about having to cancel his plans! It's likely the test returned a false positive - they are not 100% reliable

[steinblack]

Stranglers No 1 in the iTunes rock chart

[Ruby]

How can a great song like this not make it on to their playlist? Unbelievable!!!!!

Let's not go overboard.As much as we all love the band and most of us seem to like the song, it isn't really mainstream material.

[jason]

How can a great song like this not make it on to their playlist? Unbelievable!!!!!

Let's not go overboard.As much as we all love the band and most of us seem to like the song, it isn't really mainstream material.

Yes but there's a lot of terrible music that does get airplay!

[StanInBlack]

It's hard for me to get stressed out about the latest Stranglers single not getting any airplay or playlisted on any radio stations when I quite literally wasn't expecting any of that stuff to happen in the first place for various reasons. It's not the sort of track that has "hit single" written all over it, and it really doesn't matter how long The Stranglers have been around, they're as far away from the mainstream as it's possible to get in 2021. They're not a "current act" and haven't been for a very long time, and they don't have the fanbase or status or clout as the likes of The Rolling Stones who in spite of being around for longer would be more likely to get playlisted by certain radio stations. I don't even have great hopes for it faring well on the official chart, and nor do I actually care. There's been a lot of records I've liked over the last 10 years or so and I couldn't tell you anything about how they fared on the chart. Chart positions just don't strike me as being anything particularly relevant.