Official prog charts

Seven Impale > Tame Impala

O666 wrote: I did't know anything about this site and mag and I say thanks to Windhawk for introduce this (for me). I like new sites and blogs about music. As you guys said this chart CAN'T be a measure for Prog fans. I can't understand OFFICIAL deffinition in this case. How they choose these albums? What is Official Prog albums in their book ? What is their " Progressive " deffinition ? Finally there are one strange artist in this chart : Tim Bowness !! I'm happy for Tim. Congratulation Mr. Bowness !! You are in OFFICIAL Top Ten Progressive chart.

Official comes from the background of the suppliers of the chart:

The Official Charts Company (OCC), previously called the Chart Information Network (CIN) and then The Official UK Charts Company, compiles various "official" UK record charts, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Millward Brown, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week.^[1]

The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association ERA (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)). Since 1 July 1997, CIN and then the OCC have compiled the official charts. Prior to this date, the charts were produced by a succession of market research companies, beginning with the British Market Research Bureau in 1969, and later by Gallup. Before the production of the "official" charts, various less comprehensive charts were produced, most notably by newspaper/magazine New Musical Express (NME) which began its chart in 1952; some of these older charts (including NME‍ '​s earliest singles charts) are now part of the official OCC canon.

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Is this what selling-out looks like?

Have to agree Steve, not impressed at all by Tame Impala, sounds like its got a bloody clap track, I was certain that was a drum machine, apparently he's a real drummer, he sure plays like a drum machine. This is lightweight pop with a 'hint' of psyche though it would be an embarrassment to mention them in the same paragraph with CAN or Amon Duul II. Awful. 

Thanks a lot .