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I can’t see any Jackson songs in the official top 60....

Can't see any singles in the top 100, but Number Ones is at 61 in the album chart (down from 56 last week).

Which is how the North American system called 'HD Radio' works (sort of)

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-hd-radio-534581

To be fair, why would he be in the top 60 right now anyway, regardless of the documentry?

Yes, when I was with a friend in the US, I noticed how their radio kept flicking back between the analogue and digital signal when the signal got weak.

Maybe a better system than the DAB one we're using.

It's a bit of a joke how many DAB stations are mono- in 2019. We've had stereo as standard on FM for decades, but we have to put up with lots of mono stations on DAB!

Because the documentary has, for better or worse, brought attention back to his music. And if anybody hadn't purchased his music already, it gives them a reason to try and find out what all the fuss is about with his music. An old song from the 60s can get used in an ad today, and suddenly, the song is popular again and boom, it shoots right back up the charts. This is exactly the same phenomenon. Be more interesting to see where his music ranks in next week's chart, or the iTunes chart over the next week.

I'd like to see HD radio used alongside DAB or more likely DAB+, in years to come, it can be used on AM too. But the likelihood of that happening is absolute zero.

There’s always a bunch of greatest hits albums lurking in the albums chart. I see Oasis, David Bowie, George Michael, and of course the ever-present ABBA Gold in the top 100. Also a lot of Queen but that’s mostly due to the film being a current hit.

I guess the internet makes it more likely older songs will be in the charts, as most, if not all, of an artist's back catalogue is often available to download or stream, whereas in the physical days there had to be copies pressed and in the shops for them to be able to reach the charts, which wouldn't often be the case, especially for singles.

In fact Michael Jackson's death was probably the first major music death of the digital age- allowing his songs to take up a third of the top 40 the week he died, as his back catalogue was all there at the touch of a button, something that wouldn't have happened pre-internet. At best the record company might have re-released one or two of his singles back into the shops.

My partner’s car radio somehow manages to flick seamlessly from DAB to FM to prevent signal drop-out on the BBC national stations (and possibly others). I only realised it was happening when I could hear a bit of static on what I thought was DAB. I’ve no idea how it prevents it from jumping when it switches, given the digital delay on DAB - presumably it must have some kind of constant buffer recording to match them up.

Yeah, it's very handy. I guess it's based on the RDS IDs being the same between DAB and FM? I think I've heard it both seamlessly and not (i.e repeats on the way back to DAB) so I wonder if some stations are deliberately delaying FM. Would they really be likely to do that though??

That's exactly the same phenomenon I mentioned. The film Bohemian Rhapsody brought attention to Queen's music, just like this documentary has done to Michael Jackson's music.