Here are some insights from a man who knew a huge amount of detail about how the British pop charts were compiled each week and what could be done to ‘improve’ them. At one stage he worked for a company called Record Sales who merchandised the shops that reported their sales figures for the charts to be compiled from and then he formed a company called Impact who were even more professional in such duties. So watch the clip and learn a bit about how some of those pop hits became bigger and bigger.
Steve Jenkins tops the pops
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