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[V] launching new Music Video Chart

Channel [V] is launching a new music video countdown of the Top 40 videos of the week.

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Channel [V] is launching a new music video countdown of the Top 40 videos of the week.

[V] Music Video Chart will premiere this Saturday 7th May which for its 150mins will be “one hundred per cent Ad Free, so nothing stands between you and the music.”

You can check it out from 8.00am until 10.30am.

At that hour there will obviously be some crossover with rage and Video Hits.

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  1. This isn’t particularly big news, because all [V] and more appropriately, [V] Hits, do is play countdowns 24/7.

    I don’t personally have an issue with this, but I just wish more of the channels (is MTV classic the only one?) would play the actual ARIA top 20/40/50… although Channel [V]s iTunes countdowns are usually quite accurate (bar songs that don’t have music videos yet). The iTunes countdown list is usually less than 48 hours behind the actual live feed.

  3. Channel V nowdays looks like the sad poor cousin of what it used to be 8-10 years ago. Back then it had plenty of co-hosts/presenters (many are now working in free to air tv)who were engaging and funny and provided plenty of different shows to cater for different genres (e.g dance,hard rock,hip hop) plus live and interractive request shows and live concerts at the bent st studios in fox studios.
    I used to watch it everyday afterschool plus weekends. Nowdays i don’t even bother watching it for 5mins.

  4. [V] advises: “It is an aggregation of audience feedback and research, local and international chart information, as well as industry research and data.”

    In other words, whatever they want to play.

  7. Just what music tv/radio needs – another irrelevant countdown based on nothing in particular which will look and sound pretty much the same as all the others.

    Time for a new idea Channel V.

  8. @Carla – Rage ditched their ARIA countdown after ARIA decided to allow corporate sponsorship of the Top 50 chart name (ie the Coca-Cola Aria Top 50 – this is just an example, this is not the actual sponsor) – so that it needed to be referred to by that name. That would have gone against the ABC charter for advertising.

  9. The only countdown I watch is the ARIA Singles Chart either on Saturday or Sunday morning on MTV Classic. I don’t why it’s on that channel though because MTV Classic plays older music. It would fit better on MTV or MTV Hits.

  11. Will they be showing the ARIA Top 40? If so, this will be the *only* show dedicated to showing the official countdown, since the ABC scrapped the Rage Top 50 about four years ago (much to my dismay – I’d been recording it and watching it each week since it started back in 1988). Rage shows a selection of chart hits on a Saturday morning, but it’s far from the iconic countdown that it ran every single Saturday morning for nearly 20 years. Video Hits doesn’t have a countdown any more, either. I’m not sure about MTV, but contrary to what others are saying, there isn’t already a multitude of chart countdown shows around. Now, if only I had access to pay TV….! I was hoping one of the digital stations would have a full chart countdown, but to no avail. This is a very welcome addition to the TV landscape! Rage just doesn’t cater to the pop/commercial fans any more.

  12. I seriously want Ten to put Video Hits on 11 and to give it a longer schedule. In the morning and in the evening would be great. Yeah i too agree that there is too much countdown shows on pay tv, i remember Video Hits stopped their ten at 10 countdown about 3 or four years ago.

  15. This is not really innovative programming, kind of sick of the fact that all the music channels are virtually wall-to-wall “countdowns” – the majority of which feature the same videos over and over again

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