The Problematic Charts

1. French Singles Chart (3,2%): the fallen star
The French Singles Chart is suffering by the same illness like Australians or UK (OCC) did last years. It was influenced by the TV 'reality' songs: it included the biggest number of this kind of music for 2005 - the leader in this field, is the Belgian Chart.
There is not characterization about the term 'stabilization' because all the songs are having a full field life-cycle 12-20 weeks!
For the French label products, under-value songs can easily sell the double or triple than decent artists, thus creating a misbalanced environment for the decent/artistic side of music.
The French Singles Chart is suffering now the ignorance stemming from people who use the French language as primary.
Another negative point is the absence of online sales: the Chart does not include data by online track sales.

2. Spain (2,7%): problematic structure
One of the European Charts that suffers from the 'Airplay' factor. The findings show that a 54% believes that the biggest problem is its 'quality'. Spain, the leader in the Spanish language field, can't promote and establish a chart which is going to reflect the Latins all over the world. The TV has a critical role in the chart formation, but not the radio. This (not) strange phenomenon exterminates every good Latin/Spanish 'HIT' in its birth. According to online retailers' data, 8% of US consumers did give their worst point to Spanish Chart - and the biggest amount of them were Latinos! According to the IP examination the biggest rejection percentage has come from the California State, Mexico and Panama: people from these States/ Countries voted as the 'Worst Chart' the Spanish Chart. It is obvious that Spanish Chart has many problems in the way it ranks the tracks (airplays, not actual sales, not online sales), but especially this year was voted as the worst because it can't follow the latin music industry trends globally.

The best of the best national charts for 2005 (review):

| Best Charts | | Problematic Charts | | Worst Chart | | Emerging Charts/Markets |