Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3159998-20140104180100/@comment-5751180-20140105174930

Jammiedodger123 wrote: Thanks for replying! My main concern was the colour coding and it seems that's what we have to do.

The only way to incorporate the chart update result would to be to add another column entitled 'Midweek Chart Result' or something, otherwise it would be pretty confusing, and I don't think the Fresh Music Top 20 is actually something to be concerned about, since every time I watch it, half the singles aren't released/doing well in the charts.

As for graphs, it would be hard to incorporate into Wikia, it was just a mere suggestion, using some kind of tool to make a line graph (x = week/month, y = chart position) of it's weekly chart success (for big selling singles monthly). I came up with it just simply because it would be a better and simpler layout than the table as it doesn't require big scrolling, just simply looking at the line. It isn't needed though, unless you use it to compare a group of songs/albums (for example Jessie J has around 15 songs on her page, you could use a graph to determine the most popular according to the charts). Again, it isn't needed, just an idea.

On the matter of sales figures that's the one giant problem and I have no knowledge of 100% accurate figures.

Thanks for replying anyway, I now have a little bit of a better knowledge of the Stats pages! Colours are great to use for the tables so you can easily distinguish the peak and 101-200 weeks. I have started to add stats for the R&B and Dance chart etc. to the tables (see Avicii and will.i.am), I think we could do the Chart Update in the same way. You could make graphs if you wanted to but I don't think it is worth the time making them, the tables suffice. The graphs Chart Archive had were pretty neat and nice to look at though, maybe Wikia will introduce a graph element one day? Sales figures are sometimes shown on Wikipedia pages and in the Newson the Official Charts Company website. The News has also shown some Midweek Chart data out of the top 40 a few times!