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Official Music Video Chart - Chart based purely on the UK's biggest music videos of the week, based on sales of DVDs, Blu-rays and other physical formats. [8] Official Vinyl Singles Chart - Chart of the biggest selling vinyl singles. [9] Official Vinyl Albums Chart - Chart of the biggest selling vinyl albums. [9] Scottish Singles Chart ...
The Official Big Top 40 is based on Apple data only, (Apple Music streams and iTunes downloads) plus commercial radio airplay across the Global radio network. The UK singles chart began to be compiled in 1952. According to the Official Charts Company's statistics, as of 1 July 2012, 1,200 singles had topped the Official Singles Chart. [8]
As of 9 September 2014, "Happy" by Pharrell Williams is the most downloaded song in UK music download history. [17] In 2006, McFly became the first band to have two number one singles with "Star Girl" on both the UK Downloads Chart and the UK Singles Chart at the same time. In 2024 Coldplay became the 500th song to top the chart with "We Pray" [18]
"Happy" by Pharrell Williams is the most-downloaded single in the UK. A music download is the transfer of music as a digital file from a provider (such as iTunes) to a device capable of playing it; legal sales of music downloads have been monitored and charted in the United Kingdom since 2004.
The UK Singles Chart is a record chart compiled on behalf of the British record industry. Since 1997, the chart has been compiled by the Official Charts Company (formerly The Official UK Charts Company and the Chart Information Network) and until 2005 (when digital downloads were included in the chart compilation), the chart was based entirely on sales of physical singles from retail outlets.
iTunes Store is a digital marketplace selling songs, albums, music videos, ringtones and alert tones. It was launched by Apple Inc. on April 28, 2003 for Mac OS X, and on October 16, 2003 for Microsoft Windows.
Lists of UK Album Downloads Chart number ones; Lists of UK Dance Singles Chart number ones; Lists of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones; Lists of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones; Lists of UK R&B Singles Chart number ones; List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Downloads Chart
The UK singles chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. [1] The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to record their ten highest-selling singles were.