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The Official Chart, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and formerly MTV (Official UK Top 40), is the UK music industry's recognised official measure of singles and albums popularity because it is the most comprehensive research panel of its kind, today surveying over 15,000 retailers and digital services daily, capturing 99.9% of all singles consumed in ...
The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were. Dickins aggregated the results into a top 12 hit parade, which was topped by "Here in My Heart" by Al Martino. NME ' s chart was published each week in its eponymous magazine.
Indie Singles Top 40 at the Official Charts Company; UK Top 30 Indie Singles Chart at BBC Radio 1 This page was last edited on 20 December 2024, at 21:41 (UTC). Text ...
It's a bittersweet time of the year as Wham!'s "Last Christmas" reaches the top of the UK charts for the second year in a row.On Friday, Dec. 20, the Official Charts Company announced that the ...
The Beatles have made a record-breaking return to No. 1 on the UK charts with their latest and “last” song “Now and Then” becoming the country’s top single.. Released on November 2 ...
The chart was first published on 18 October 1997, when American boy band Backstreet Boys was number one with the "As Long as You Love Me" single. [2] As of the chart ending on 2 January 2025, a total of 521 songs have topped the Independent Singles Chart. 6 artists have topped the chart with eight or more different songs.
On 2 February 2024 (8 February 2024, week ending), Madonna secured her first UK top 10 single since "Celebration" in September 2009, thanks to her inclusion on "Popular", also featuring The Weeknd and Playboi Carti, after the song climbed to number 10 in the chart, having spent a total of 12 non-consecutive weeks inside the top 40 before ...
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.