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I used to be much more closely interested in the music charts, but that's faded over the years as I've become less interested in the music therein, a process which started in my mid-teens, as is probably quite natural.
I was therefore surprised today to spot that there's a surge in sales for horror-themed songs - into the top 75 this week went Thriller, Ghostbusters and The Monster Mash. Nicky Minaj was already there.
Judging by the amount of weeks given on the chart for Ghostbusters (14), I'm guessing that this has been happening to some extent since downloads became eligible, and that Ghostbusters's original 40 or so weeks on the chart were under a different catalogue number or some such.
In fact, I've checked, and after originally charting for 32 weeks in 1984 and 1985, it's charted again in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 for a week at a time. The Official Chart page probably counts weeks in the top 100 for no apparent reason.
So that's chart entries for Christmas, Hallowe'en, deaths, occasional sport events, and anything else?
I was therefore surprised today to spot that there's a surge in sales for horror-themed songs - into the top 75 this week went Thriller, Ghostbusters and The Monster Mash. Nicky Minaj was already there.
Judging by the amount of weeks given on the chart for Ghostbusters (14), I'm guessing that this has been happening to some extent since downloads became eligible, and that Ghostbusters's original 40 or so weeks on the chart were under a different catalogue number or some such.
In fact, I've checked, and after originally charting for 32 weeks in 1984 and 1985, it's charted again in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 for a week at a time. The Official Chart page probably counts weeks in the top 100 for no apparent reason.
So that's chart entries for Christmas, Hallowe'en, deaths, occasional sport events, and anything else?
