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The Fab 40 (or Fab Forty) was the playlist for the station Wonderful Radio London. Also known as Big L, [1] Wonderful Radio London was a pirate radio station that operated from the MV Galaxy about three-and-a-half miles out from the coast of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. [2]
Some 30–40 years after they were in use, meticulous attempts were made to reconstruct the Fab 40 charts by Radio London Ltd. These drew on surviving lists prepared between 1965 and 1967, at Radio London's offices at 17 Curzon Street in London and informal ones compiled at the time by listeners, although there were sometimes discrepancies between the "official" list and the records that were ...
The Top 40, whether surveyed by a radio station or a publication, was a list of songs that shared only the common characteristic of being newly released. Its introduction coincided with a transition from the old ten-inch 78 rpm record format for single "pop" recordings to the seven-inch vinyl 45 rpm format, introduced in 1949, which was ...
UMOD/Sony Music CG 28 March 2019: 1 Various artists Country Forever: UMOD 4 April 2019: 1 Various artists Now 100 Hits - Power Ballads: EMI/Sony Music CG 11 April 2019: 2 Various artists Now That's What I Call Music! 102: EMI/Universal: 25 April 2019: 7 Various artists Now 100 Hits - Forgotten 80's: EMI/Universal: 7 June 2019: 3 Various artists
During the 1990s the chart was based purely on the sales of physical singles, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart. At the beginning of the 1990s, sales of singles and albums in the United Kingdom were compiled on behalf of the British music industry by Gallup. This continued until 1994, when the contract to compile the UK ...
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
List of best-selling singles in the United States; List of best-selling Latin singles in the United States; List of best-selling sheet music; List of best-selling music artists; List of best-selling albums; List of best-selling albums of the 21st century; List of highest-certified music artists in the United States: This lists the top 100 ...
The UK Singles Chart is a music chart compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC) that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [2] Since 2005, the chart has been based on the sales of both physical and digital singles, initially on the condition that the single was available in both formats.