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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 Official Big Top 40 from Global - Non-OCC singles chart introduced in 2009, compiled from iTunes sales, Apple Music streams and Global radio airplay. [3] UK Singles Downloads Chart - Singles chart based purely on downloads. Introduced in 2004. [4] UK Album Downloads Chart - Albums chart based purely on downloads. Introduced in 2006.
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.
The song initially spent four non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, becoming Beyoncé's longest-running UK number-one single to date, [11] before returning to number-one for a fifth non-consecutive week on 5 April 2024 (11 April 2024, week ending), after the album Cowboy Carter debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart, marking the ...
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 14 February 2025, at 22:31 (UTC). Text ...
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3 January – Data from the British Phonographic Industry shows that female artists enjoyed a record year in the UK Singles Chart, with female artists or groups topping the charts for 31 of 52 weeks, the most since the charts began in 1952. [2] 5 January – Indie rock band The Last Dinner Party are named the BBC Sound of 2024. [3]
Extended to a two-and-a-half-hour Top 40 from 16:30–19:00. 8 March 1992 N/A None [a] Tommy Vance 15 March 1992 16 April 1995 3 years, 32 days Bruno Brookes: Simon Bates Mark Goodier Neale James Extended to a three-hour Top 40 from 16:00–19:00. Digital downloads were included in the chart from 17 April 2005. 23 April 1995 17 November 2002