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Agreed re: aggregate chart...obviously, there are certain things which will skew it (like retailer exclusive titles), but it should give a fairly clear (or at least clearer) picture.
I don't yet have the technological know how of how to do it, and I don't know if you do either Snowman, but I figure there must be some way of perhaps setting up some sort of RSS Feed from the retailers for the charts, then having the results aggregated on a points-for-position rating scale.
It should also be pointed out, before we both read too much into these things, that these are merely sales positions (and thus do no correlate with each other from site to site). As such, what's number 1 on Jaded Video might have only sold enough copies to make it number 32 on Gamelink or ADE. Even so, I think this is a far more reliable guide than the AVN charts...
I agree Dan. It would be very useful for producers in the industry to spot trends and be perceived as less bias than the current AVN charts.
I think your last point is interesting. It says something about popularity if you are the #1 best-seller even at a smaller store. But it also says something about popularity if you sell 100 copies that month at Adult Video Universe and 10 copies at Store X even if that was sufficient to make the disc the top seller at Store X.
Unless the stores reported the number of copies sold, we wouldn't have a way to tell what the volume is. We could approximate this by weighing some stores more than others based on our estimates of volume, but we could be way off, i.e. assume a store is moving much more product than they really do or vice versa.
Perhaps the list could contain tier one, tier two and tier three stores. If a title was #1 at a tier one (bigger) store, it would get 3x the points in the composite rank system. If a title was #1 at a tier three store, it would get 1x the points. The points could be based on an inverted rank system -- for example, in a top 25 composite list - a #1 rank title would receieve 20 points and a #25 ranked title would be awarded just 1 point before the tier 1-2-3 multiplier.
I don't have the programming skills to automate the process and I think the stores would have to participate in order to do this -- by providing the data in a uniform format. This is something that might have to be done manually.
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