Pepsi Chart
Other names | The Pepsi Network Chart |
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Genre | Dr. Fox |
Created by | Unique Productions |
Original release | 1 August 1993 – 29 December 2002 |
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The Pepsi Chart (previously known as "The Pepsi Network Chart Show") was a networked Sunday afternoon
The Pepsi Chart was produced for the Commercial Radio Companies Association by the
The Top 10 of the Pepsi Chart was the same as the official Top 10 of the
Compilation
Different compilation methods of the chart show were employed in its time. Initially, the sales:
Show format
Over the years of the show's broadcast, little variation in the format was applied. A typical 3-hour show was aired live between 4pm and 7pm each Sunday, and consisted of the standard 40-1 singles countdown with the inclusion of recaps after every 10 songs. Competition announcements, live calls from contestants, interviews with the artists making that particular week's chart, and advertisements made up the remaining
Artist involvement
As well as standard reaction interviews with chart-toppers, artists were often asked by Fox to "introduce the number one to the country". At other times, over the course of the show, artists may be asked to phone in to the studio at intervals to "pester" Fox into revealing the number one track way before even the Top 10 had begun being counted down. At these scripted points, Fox would insist that they'd have to wait to the end, just as with the rest of the listeners. Artists managing to cling on to the top spot for a total of four weeks would be awarded a Pepsi Chart blue disc. Although not made entirely clear to the listeners what exactly this blue disc was, its appearance was similar to those presented in Silver and
Station participation
Requirements for a radio station taking the show were that the station's coverage area was mostly in a "white-space", i.e. broadcasting to an audience not already covered by a rival participant. There were the odd exceptions to the rule, most notably when existing stations agreed for a new station to carry the show. Other requirements were that the station was a current CRCA member, and the ability to fulfill the obligation of playing a pre-determined number of show promos over the week during primetime to a specific number of the target 15-24 audience. As well as taking the Sunday afternoon show, stations were requested to air the 5-minute chart checkups as part of their usual programming on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Non-live audio clips were delivered via SMS and so stations were expected to have the facility and equipment already in place.
Brand extensions
Channel 5 programme
Following the success of the radio show, The Pepsi Chart Show was launched on
Filming initially took place at the Hanover Grand venue near to London's Regent Street, with Rhona Mitra and Eddy Temple-Morris as presenters. Over time, the show moved on to the Sound venue at nearby Leicester Square, with Fox himself at the helm of the show, usually broadcast at 3.30pm on Saturdays. Live performances at the Sound nightclub were also used in Pepsi Chart TV shows overseas, combining these English language performances with local ones in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Mexico, Latin America (La Cartelera Pepsi) Russia, Thailand and Australia. The late Caroline Flack was the international presenter for several countries including Norway and Tahiti.
In 1998 The Pepsi Chart Show was one of the Top 30 most-watched shows on Channel 5,[16] but ultimately the TV show never really made much of an impact on the music television audience share, with likely blames being a combination of both restrictions in the analogue terrestrial transmission coverage of Channel 5 at the time, and occasionally a failure in attracting appearances from the bigger-name pop acts. There were notably more live performances from the more 'alternative' acts, and as a result, the TV show sometimes did not fully reflect the music in the radio version of the Pepsi Chart, which was more biased towards commercial radio airplay's hit music.
In the programme's last year it lost two-thirds of its audience, with 100,000 viewers watching the Saturday afternoon programme when the show was axed by Kevin Lygo, Channel 5's new programming boss. The last edition went out on 25 June 2002
Doctor Fox's Chart Update
Doctor Fox's Chart Update was a Pepsi Chart branded spin-off aired as a 5-minute slot on Channel 5 on Monday evenings, providing a recap of the previous night's new Top 10 (as in those days, the chart was published on Sundays at 7pm, rather than on Fridays at 5:45pm as is the case now).[24]
Compilation albums
Despite the end of the Channel 5 TV show, the Pepsi Chart brand remained strong, helped along by its continued use in exclusive promotional CDs and autoscan radios that were offered to consumers of
Sponsorship
In January 2003, the show became
List of albums
Here is a complete list of the compilation albums released.
- Hits Zone '97 (1997)
- Hits Zone The Best of '97 (1997)
- The Best Pepsi Chart Album in the World ...Ever! (1999)
- The Best Pepsi Chart Album in the World ...Ever! 2000 (2000)
- Pepsi Chart 2001 (2000)
- The New Pepsi Chart Album (2001)
- Pepsi Chart 2002 (2001)
- New! Pepsi Chart 2002 (2002)
- Pepsi Chart 2003 (2002)
- Listen Up (2003) (not so much a Pepsi Chart album but an album based on Pepsi. It was free in Popworld magazine).
Additionally, there was a released DVD titled Pepsi Chart Music Quiz in 2002.
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Channel Five's Pepsi Chart
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Channel 5 runs The Pepsi Chart in a half-hour program Thursday at 7 p.m.
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