Record chart

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A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of record charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40. Although primarily a marketing or supermarketing tool like any other sales statistic, they have become a form of popular media culture in their own right.

Record charts are compiled using a variety of criteria. These commonly include sales of records, cassettes and compact discs; amount of radio airplay; requests to radio disk jockeys; and, recently, number of downloads. There are also record charts where the radio listeners vote for the songs.

Some charts are specific to a particular musical genre and most to a particular geographical location. The most common period of time covered by a chart is one week, with the chart being printed or broadcast at the end of this time. Summary charts for years and decades are then calculated from their component weekly charts. Component charts have become an increasingly important way to measure the commercial success of individual songs.

Reviewers often describe records using round number milestones within a chart. For example, a record that peaks at number 7 may be called a "Top 10" hit, even when there is no chart limited to only the top 10 records in that particular location.

List of World-wide Charts

Australia

Argentina

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

Europe

  • EURO 200 (European Union singles chart)[1]

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

  • Greek IFPI Singles and Albums Charts[2]

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

Italy

  • FIMI Singles Chart[4]
  • Musica & Dischi[5]

Japan

Latvia

Lithuania

Mexico

  • Amprofon (Album charts)

New Zealand

The Netherlands

Norway

Poland

  • Polish National Top 50[6]
  • Polish Airplay Chart [7]

Portugal

  • HitList Portugal
  • Top Oficial da AFP [8]

Romania

  • Romanian Top 100[9]

Russia

Spain

  • Promusicae (Album, Singles, Download, Airplay and DVD charts)

Sweden

Ukraine

  • Ukrainian Airplay[10]

United Kingdom

United States

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Popularity can refer to:
  • Social status, or the quality of being well-liked
  • Commonness

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The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay
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Top Forty or Top 40 is a music industry shorthand for the currently most-popular songs in a particular genre. When used without qualification, it typically refers to the best-selling or most frequently broadcast pop music songs.
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Sales are the activities involved in providing products or services in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity.[1]
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gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc.
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Compact Cassette

Typical 60-minute Compact Cassette
Media type: magnetic tape
Encoding: analog signal
Capacity: 23 minutes per side (C46)
30 minutes per side (C60)
45 minutes per side (C90)
50 minutes per side (C100)
60 minutes per side (C120)
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Compact Disc

The closely spaced tracks on the readable surface of a Compact Disc cause light to diffract into a full visible colour spectrum
Media type: Optical disc
Encoding: Various
Capacity: Typically up to 700 MB
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Radio is the wireless transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space.
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disc jockey or DJ is a person who selects and plays prerecorded music for an audience.

There are several types of disc jockeys. Radio DJs introduce and play music that is broadcast on AM, FM, shortwave or digital radio stations.
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See Shared resource for the conventional meaning of file sharing
File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks.
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A music genre is a term that describes the process of dividing popular music into categories. Some treat the terms genre and style as the same, and state that genre should be defined as pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language.
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A Component chart is a chart which is used to calculate a more primary chart. The practice is mostly used by Billboard Magazine in the United States. Most international charts do not use component charts, but instead use only one mean of calculation, usually sales.
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Generally speaking, a round number is a number that ends with one or more zeroes (0), meaning that they are multiples of 10, 100, 1000, and so on. There are variations on this theme, where multiples of 5 or 25 might also be considered "round.
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A hit single is a recorded track or single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio airplay
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Anthem
Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia.
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Motto
En unión y libertad   (Spanish)
"In Union and Freedom"
Anthem
Himno Nacional Argentino
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Argentina Top 40 is the ranking of the 40 most played and requested tracks all over the country.

The information is provided by more than 200 Radio stations, which plays the ranking together with television channels.
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Motto
Eendracht maakt macht   (Dutch)
L'union fait la force"   (French)
Einigkeit macht stark
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Ultratop is the name of the official Belgian record charts. Due to the two different regions (Flanders and Wallonia) there are two different record charts. In Flanders the most important charts are the Ultratop 50 singles and the Ultratop 50 albums.
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De Afrekening is a Belgian radio and record chart broadcasting program featured on Studio Brussel (commonly referred to as "StuBru"). During the program, thirty top-rating alternative tracks are played, with the chart being assembled by the program's audience via a voting poll
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Motto
Ordem e Progresso   (Portuguese)
"Order and Progress"
Anthem
Hino Nacional Brasileiro
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Hot100Brasil is an online publisher of various Brazilian music charts. The charts are compiled and published weekly.

Categories

  • Hot 100 Singles & Tracks
  • Top 30 CD Sales
  • Top 20 Musical DVDs
  • Hot 30 Dance Club Play

Singles & Tracks Hot 100


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The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart premiered in the Billboard
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The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan [1] . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.
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The CHUM Chart was a ranking of top 30 (and, until August 1968, the top 50) songs on Toronto, Canada, radio station CHUM 1050 AM, from 1957 to 1986, and was the longest-running Top 40 chart in the world produced by an individual radio station.
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The Canadian Hit 30 Countdown, often abbreviated CH30, is a Canadian radio countdown show. It launched on November 6, 2004, on stations owned by Newcap Broadcasting. It is currently Canada's only CHR hit countdown; the Canadian Top 30 is a hot adult contemporary chart.
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