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Music Week to move to Monday as chart day shifts
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 5 June 2015
Fully aware that no other Friday will ever quite match the majesty of BBC Music Day, Music Week has been forced to change its publication day to Monday from next month.
Officially the trade mag is moving back to an early-in-the-week publication day because once the chart starts coming out on a Friday, a Friday morning delivery of each new issue would render the chart pages almost immediately redundant.
So it’s all the fault of that damn Global Release Day. Though the major labels almost certainly picked Friday as the day to release new music worldwide after the BBC declared it such a musical day of the week.
Music Week’s digital chart pack will also shift to Friday tea time, so record industry types can run to the pub with their iPads and point score over the latest stats. Which is, after all, the main reason the music charts still exist. So good times.
