Andy

Wait till all the kiddies go on school holidays. Then I'll wish it was quiet here again.

I wasn't talking about the ARIA charts, I was talking about the store top 30s. But speaking of ARIA charts, its not how many CD's bought by end customers, it's how many CDs are bought by the stores. That's why some CDs go platinum before they are even released because stores have bought heaps of copies if they think it will be a good seller. Selected stores send an estimate of sales and these are ranked against what all the retailers have bought to achieve what they call 'weighted sales' and that makes up the chart. And of course the retailers and/or ARIA are not going to tell the public that the charts are bought ie. rigged. The same way that they flybuys scheme is purported as a loyaly scheme designed to make you shop at certain stores, when in reality its main purpose is to collect behavioural data and create customer profiles and link a transaction to an individual. Anyway, you can be naiive and belive exactly what they tell you, but I know for a fact that positions on the major retailers charts are bought, having worked as the 2IC of the music department in one of the stores. Our instore top 30 was made up primarily of sales, but your position could be boosted in all the stores if you paid the head office a certain amount of money. We were also one of the stores that contributed sales information to ARIA, and most of the time we just sent them how many CDs we got ordered, because it was too complicated to work out actual sales to customers numbers without doing time consuming stocktakes. And even then, most CDs have at least 2 APNs.

Topping the charts means nothing. I know for a fact that the top 30 in stores such as Sanity, Target, Kmart etc. are bought positions. ie. the record company pays the store money to put the CD in the top 30, its not the top 30 selling cd's for that store.

Do you hate them? If someone gave that to me, I'd have to assume they disliked me.

Ah, sounds painful! Hope you feel better soon. Well at least you have a valid excuse this time

des, do you ever go to school anymore

They go well with your signature

I pretty much just ignore people who post like that now, as I couldn't be bothered trying to decipher what it is they're trying to say.

Which is quite ironinc, as I think you are one of the boards youngest members. But welcome :cool:

I think I have 4000 and something........ :s

Was that in the widescreen version only?

It's easy to tell people who read alot, because their writing, spelling and vocabulary is often alot better then those who don't.

Ahhhhh this is scary.... and somewhat confusing.

Yeah the IR protests, marching from Martin Place down George St to Town Hall or something like that... Quite a big turn out... I was watching the Morning News instead of studying Most of my friends have finished exams already, which is quite annoying, except for the ones doing most of the same subjects as me that is. As for Mr. Truant.... yeah... seems like it. I was one of those people with near perfect attendance, except for the days I was sick and the last day of term and such. But then, I was one of those people who enjoyed school, mainly for the social aspects, and because I did well without really trying.

Yeah, your Bevan interview was great. I agree with some of his comments about Always Greener. It was such a shame to see that axed. Oh, and I see you're not stuyding either Karl. Damn I'm such a good procrastinator. It's really bad considering I have my last two exams tomorrow and Thursday mornings, and I'm yet to study at all for the Thursday one. And is it school holidays, or does des just never go to school?

I'm a Wonder Poster!

Ever heard of a tie?

It's the official Home and Away toothpaste

Something in the middle of no-where north-west of Sydney Here's my uni 33 d 53' 15"S, 151 d 11' 22"E

It's so annoying to get to.

I hope to visit Palm Beach one day too. Actually I think I've been there many years ago.

In Australia there is approx 40 weeks of school and 12 weeks of holidays per year. Then when your at uni the ratio of holidays increases somewhat

Especially if by actor you mean actress.

*jumps up and down* I've seen it

Woah! Long time since I've seen "The Oldies" at the top of the forum. *waves to everyone*