Video player not working?0:000:000:00SettingsQualityAutoAudioSpeed1×CaptionsOffHow The Top Music Charts WorkDula TVFunny videos since 200800Share2.8K views Aug 2009A mock news report explains how record sales are tracked by devices in singles, which erase each record after one play to prevent chart-rigging. Show transcript0:00Have you ever wondered how the pop charts are compiled? Well, every time you buy a record, the record shop owner immediately notifies the people who put the charts together, the Royal Pop and Rock Association, using a system of pneumatic tubes. Once it arrives at Ropra, the sale is logged, and that information is used to calculate the positions of the songs in the charts. However, the pneumatic tubes themselves are pretty old and often get clogged up. But worse still, because so many other businesses use this tube system, the information sometimes gets mixed up, which can lead to discrepancies in the charts. We all remember last year's fiasco when the Post Office Tower spent 6 consecutive weeks at number 1. So, in the words of Elvis Presley, something had to be done. And here at Ropra's headquarters in London's West End, something is being done. Sir Alan Rees is the chairman of Ropra.0:00Go out.0:00Sir Alan, what is being done?0:00Well, we're phasing out the whole pneumatic tube system because it's, um, clearly not working. As well as the whole post office tower business, we've had everything from a coat hanger in the top 10 to a motor insurance policy that's been popping in and out of the charts for the past 2 years and driving everybody mad. Um, so now when you buy a single, um, it will look like that.0:00What's that little box?0:00Um, that is actually a transmitting device that's built into the record. So as soon as you place the needle onto the, um, groove of the record, it sends out an electronic signal to our central computer, which registers the details of the record, the, uh, name of the pop act, the song, et cetera, et cetera. And from that we can completely accurately produce the, um, charts.0:00So, Sir Alan, what's to stop an artist from simply playing their record again and again, sending out multiple signals to your computer in a bid to drive their record up the charts.0:00Well, we've, um, thought of that, Pam, and from now on, when you buy a record, you will only be able to listen to it once.0:00I see.0:00After that, if you, um, do try to play it again, um, it will sound like this. This record has been erased. This record has been erased.0:00Um.0:00This record has been erased.0:00And um.0:00This record has been er-0:00Now the record is totally useless.0:00That's amazing. Well, Sir Alan is not only an expert on records, he's also a record holder.0:00Um, that's right, Pam. I currently hold the world record for French kissing.0:00So, um, could I have a demonstration?0:00Certainly. Um. Well, that certainly topped my charts.0:00Um. Topped my charts.0:00Um.
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