User:Hotchoc26

About me
I am a chart fan who enjoys playing and making games, and I live in Cornwall. I own the Mapp Games Wiki as well which is basically a wiki about board games I have made up as well as info about other real world games. Films I like include Harry Potter and Star Wars, basically any sci-fi, adventure, mystery etc. type film. I also like TV shows such as Doctor Who, Lost, etc.

How I got here
Well first of all I had quite an interest in video game music like Tomb Raider, Croc, Spyro etc. which I listened to for years until you hear those songs on the radio, such as All I Ever Wanted by Basshunter. I eventually found the NOW albums which I used to get my music from, and downloaded the albums and listened to the songs from them. Later I found the Official Chart and found that a lot of the songs on the chart were good and decided to download them. That's when I used the weekly charts to find new songs to download and would look at the charts every week. I then developed an interest in the archiving of charts on the chartarchive.org website, which I enjoyed looking at how the singles and albums performed on the chart. I was quite dissapointed when I found out that OCC demanded the chart data to be taken down and I eventually saw a comment on the website saying that Havemeforty made a wiki for the stats. And that's how I got here!

Favourite Pages
Fun and Games

Categories

 * Behind The Scenes Articles
 * Chart Predictions
 * Chart Stats
 * Chart Weeks
 * Chart Update
 * Chart Update Years
 * Charts
 * Fresh Music Top 20
 * Fun and Games
 * Incomplete Articles
 * List of Artists
 * Lists
 * Now That's What I Call Music
 * Other Charts
 * Singles Peaking At Different Positions
 * Top 75 Charts Only
 * UK Singles Chart Number Ones
 * Very Incomplete Articles
 * Zobbel.de
 * Zobbe.de New Entries Weeks

Artist Stats
TBA

Blog Posts
User blog:Hotchoc26/3D Pinball - Space Cadet Archive

User blog:Hotchoc26/Flash Games

User blog:Hotchoc26/Hotchoc26's Chart Predictions Archive

User blog:Hotchoc26/Hotchoc26's Chart Performance Game Archive

User blog:Hotchoc26/Hotchoc26's Birthday Number Ones

User blog:Hotchoc26/Where I Get My Songs From User blog:Hotchoc26/Top 100 Songs of 2013

User blog:NicholasBBQ32/What brought me to listening some songs

User blog:NicholasBBQ32/Top 100 songs of

User blog:NicholasBBQ32/Fun Activity

Templates
Template:Completion Stats

[http://uk-singles-chart.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Did_You_Know... Template:Did You Know...]

Template:Featured Single

Template:Home Page News

Template:Infobox Template:Past Top 10 Singles

Template:Polls

Template:Releases Table

Template:Single/Artist Alphabetical

MediaWiki
MediaWiki:BBC 1Xtra Playlist

MediaWiki:BBC Radio 1 Playlist

MediaWiki:Fresh Music Top 20

MediaWiki:UK Singles Top 100

MediaWiki:UK Albums Top 100

Top Picks from the Top 40 (21/09/2013)
This chart isn't necessarily in order of how much I like them, but how 'playable' they are in this moment. It is restricted to a top 25 (previously 20) and only songs from the current top 40 are counted. Songs noted as NEW are either new to this chart or the top 40, and RE-ENTRY also could be a re-entry to this chart or the top 40.

Yellow: Biggest climb

Red: Biggest fall

Aqua: Highest new entry

Orange: Highest re-entry

Highlights
Biggest climb: Things We Lost In The Fire (up 13 from 21 to 8)

Biggest fall: Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) (down 9 from 12 to 21)

Highest new entry: -

Highest re-entry: -

Dropouts from top 40 (21/09/2013)
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Dropouts from this chart
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Predicted Dropouts
3. Don't You Worry Child (from top 40)

12. Bang Bang (from top 40)

24. Earthquake

Music Player Timeline

 * CD Player - Yes, I used to burn my music to a CD and listen to the tracks like that. It was a pain when riding my bike though!
 * MP3 Player - A USB MP3 player was the next step for me, which was very simple to add tracks to and I went through a lot of these as they were cheap and you can't expect great quality with cheap MP3 players.
 * MP3 Player with Video - Ah yes, I thought about having an MP3 player that can also play video, such as Weebl's Stuff, Lego animations and other random stuff from YouTube. MY first choice was an Alba Touch Pad, which was absolutely rubbish. It was £29.99 to be fair, but the pad was so sensitive and I was able to 'swap' it for a Bush, which had a better interface, including Camera with Video Recording and Radio. I eventually lost it and turned to an Archos brand, which was a good make but prefered the Bush. I then got another Bush once Argos had it in stock.
 * iPod Nano - When my friend Tyler showed me his iPod Nano 3rd gen, I compared it to my Bush and to be honest I was a bit jealous. I looked on the internet to see where to buy the Nano but only the 6th gen (with no video playback plus it was rubbish) was on sale. I looked through past Nano models and found that the 5th gen was the best. I came across a shop in town CTS: The Mac Centre which did repairs and sales for all things Apple. I asked if they had a Nano 5th gen and they did, for £60 for 16GB. I bought it and now Tyler was the jealous one. I then saw Apple was selling the new 7th gen Nanos which were touch screen with larger screen and better interface. It was expensive though and didn't really have the money for it, but considered it an option in the future.
 * I then thought that an old iPod Touch would be cool, and an old model from CTS would be good for the price as well. The shop only had one in stock, a 4th gen, which was ideal, but was only 8GB. This was about 4GB less than my library so before buying it I tried to shrink by library, including getting rid of videos I no longer want and decreasing the resolutions. I managed to get the size to about 5GB meaning I had about 1GB free for apps and other things. The Touch cost me £65 including a USB cable and earphones, as my earphones with the remote were dying. I still had my Nano hanging around but I was able to sell it for £25 :( meaning I lost £40 upgrading to the Touch, but that was OK.