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Originally Posted by Zee
As you said, they don't always play the forty songs in the countdown, and considering the length of the song they may well just omit it anyway and spend less than a minute explaining the context of its chart placing for that week. I agree that it's a chart show, it should play the chart, but as this is a politically sensitive issue, they'll be criticised for playing it and they'll be criticised for not playing it, so I think whatever transpires they'll try and give a very balanced view - to simply not play it or to simply play it, either way without an explanation, would be highly inflammatory.
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I'm not sure if that's changed though now, but the top 10 is always played in full ever since they started the whole streaming thing, and as this looks likely to chart inside the top 10, there really isn't any reason why it shouldn't be played - if it is outside the top 10 and the rest of the chart still isn't always played, there'll be more leeway. I do agree the context of its charting should be explained though, the link arista posted which suggests that's what they'll be doing seems a fair way to solve this IMO. You reflect the sales and you inform the listeners, that lives up to the BBC's mantra perfectly.
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Originally Posted by Ammi
..honestly Jack, you really can't equate Margaret Thatcher with Hitler..but on the subject of WW2..that was a nation joined together and united in war and their losses and fears...what's happening now is a nation united in hatred..and people have a right to feel that if they want to and feel very passionately about it and show those feelings...but the people who don't feel the same, because she's dead and don't see the point in this, will feel just as passionately that this whole thing and everything on the internet etc is distasteful....
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I'm not comparing her to Hitler, I need to make that clear, I'm just making the point that if people will discuss him when they weren't around at the time, people can do the same towards Thatcher...that's all I was trying to say.
I absolutely agree with the rest of what you've said though, people are entitled to find this disgusting and people are entitled to feel disgusted at what she did to their lives and their communities, my original point was just simply that this debate should happen outside of the BBC and they should have no input into this whatsoever other than to play the song as that's what the point of the chart show is, explain a bit of the context behind it in a balanced and impartial manner, and move on. It's not up to them to be saying 'well this is disgusting so we aren't playing it'.