{"id":9846,"date":"2009-05-04T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taggedtalk.com\/blog\/2009-05-04-the-charts-they-are-not-achanging.html"},"modified":"2009-05-04T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T09:26:11","slug":"the-charts-they-are-not-achanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9846-the-charts-they-are-not-achanging.html","title":{"rendered":"the charts they are not a\u2019changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan is at number one with Together Through Life, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/8031636.stm\">reports the BBC<\/a>, showing his enduring appeal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dylan now holds a record, previously held by Tom Jones, for the longest gap between solo number one albums. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No denying Dylan\u2019s long-term appeal (and he deserves it), but I\u2019m guessing it shows something else, too: that the age profile reflected in the charts is older than it has ever been, and album charts are no longer a reliable measure of musical taste.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:10042508-3e19-4168-b6f0-44f02d8733f9\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/dylan\" rel=\"tag\">dylan<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/charts\" rel=\"tag\">charts<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/together+through+life\" rel=\"tag\">together through life<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan is at number one with Together Through Life, reports the BBC, showing his enduring appeal: Dylan now holds a record, previously held by Tom Jones, for the longest gap between solo number one albums. No denying Dylan\u2019s long-term appeal (and he deserves it), but I\u2019m guessing it shows something else, too: that the age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9846-the-charts-they-are-not-achanging.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the charts they are not a\u2019changing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1070,1073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}