The Official UK charts/How out of touch are we?

For some reason I decided to look at the albums charts and wondered if any proggers keep update with the modern mainstream or even like the bands featured in the charts.

How many do you know from the top 30?

Also do you feel out of touch with what's going on musically or happily ignorant?

http://theofficialcharts.com/top40_albums.php

I know 17 of the featured artists but as I watch television your quite usually force fed these albums but strangely I also feel out of touch of modern music.But if its anything like this it seems like no loss to me.





Edited by mrcozdude - August 25 2009 at 18:40

6

I would consider myself very up to date on music.

edit: this is counting only albums that I have heard.

Edited by The Antique - August 25 2009 at 21:24

I have heard a full album from none of those.

I have heard of about 4 (of the top 30).

I know of most of them, then everybody on the planet has heard of Michael Jackson, Bouncey and U2; half the planet must have at least heard of Coldplay, Emimem, The Killers, Stone Roses, Green Day, Lily Allen, Prodigy, Lady Gaga, Kasabian, Pink... unless you are living in a bubble... on a tiny atol in the mid Pacific Ocean.... without a Baylis wind-up radio.

I knew of 47 of the artists in the top 100 albums, but that's including Jacko, U2, Coldplay, Killers etc.. and all the artists I would think we've all heard of.

Am I in touch with what artists such as Kanye West are up to? No. Do I care..? Not really.

I did not check but would not be surprised if I did not know any of them. if there is anything I am definitely NOT interested in it is the charts

I've heard of most of them, but that's largely because they are either worldwide known names like Michael Jackson or Abba, or because other people in my house like them or own their music (Beyonce, Duffy, Lily Allen)

I think the only one that I 've listened to all through would be Kings of Leon, which is actually a decent CD (don't hate me for saying that )

Never even heard of Calvin Harris or Tinchy Styrder, but I'm seriously not in the least bothered. 'The charts' mean nothing to me, and haven't since I was about 14 years old

i have albums by a few of them, Lily Allen ,  Stereophonics, Guns'n'Roses, Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Eric Clapton, Police, Jimi Hendrix ( ), Blur....

Edited by mystic fred - August 27 2009 at 09:21

Anyway, I think it's the chart listeners that are out of touch, and not us.

I was not too surpised that I knew 21 of the names, especially having teenage kids. However, i was surpised to have 4 of them