Since the rules changed allowing downloads to count towards a position in the charts, I have been writing about how significant this change is. I was interested to listen to the charts tonight to see how much of an impact Amy Winehouse's death had been on the top forty this week. The charts were affected by the death of Michael Jackson as I wrote here after listening to the charts that Sunday, which makes me wonder how much of a fan these people really are if they didn't already own the music. They may of course simply wish to pay tribute by getting the deceased into the charts.

I'm not sure if the whole country sat around the radio for this week's charts, but as I work in the music business this kind of thing interests me immensely. Of course the last time the entire country listened to the charts together was Christmas 2009, which is the only example of the download rule subversion actually working properly. I wrote two blogs about that, in advance, just in case. On this occasion, Amy Winehouse had managed four places in the singles top forty, and number one and five in the album chart. Interesting, as Jackson took the higher spots for albums too.

Interesting to see that Mitch Winehouse wants to open free rehab clinics in his daughter's honour. Surely a music school would be better given that she replied thrice in the negative to the idea of rehab.