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UK Singles Chart - Wikipedia. This article is about the UK singles chart. For the BBC Radio 1 show, see The Official Chart. The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top- selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid- for downloads and streaming.

To be eligible for the chart, a single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as either a 'single bundle' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 2. Some media outlets only list the Top 4. BBC) or the Top 7. Music Week magazine) of this list. Around 6,5. 00 British retail outlets contribute sales data, as well as most UK online digital- download stores. Unlike charts in the United States, no airplay statistics are used for the official UK Singles Chart. The chart week runs from 0.

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July 2. 01. 5, the chart week ran from 0. Sunday to midnight Saturday. According to the Official Charts Company's statistics, as of 1 July 2. UK Singles Chart.

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The company regards a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1. Record Retailer chart from 1. February 1. 96. 9, where multiples of competing charts (none official) coexisted side by side.

For example, the BBC compiled its own chart based on an average of the music papers of the time; many songs announced as having reached number one on BBC Radio and Top of the Pops prior to 1. Charts Company. The first number one song of the UK Singles Chart was . The current number one song, as of 8 September 2. The idea of compiling a chart based on sales originated in the United States, where the music- trade paper Billboard compiled the first chart incorporating sales figures on 2. July 1. 94. 0. Record charts in the UK began in 1. Percy Dickins of the New Musical Express (NME) gathered a pool of 5.

These results were then aggregated into a Top 1. The NME chart was based on a telephone poll.

It was also the first chart to include Northern Ireland in its sample. Although NME had the largest circulation of charts in the 1. With available lists of which record shops were sampled to compile the charts some shops were subjected to . Additionally, Retailer was set up by independent record shops and had no funding or affiliation with record companies. However, it had a significantly smaller sample size than some rival charts. The most widely circulated chart was the NME one, as used by Radio Luxembourg's legendary Sunday night Top 2.

ABC TV's Thank Your Lucky Stars, which had an audience of up to 6 million on ITV. Official chart. The sales diaries were translated into punch cards so the data could be interpreted by a computer. A computer then compiled the chart on Monday, and the BBC were informed of the Top 5.

Tuesday in time for it to be announced on Johnnie Walker's afternoon show. The charts were also published in Record Retailer (rebranded Record & Tape Retailer in 1. Music Week in 1. 97. The 1. 97. 1 postal strike meant data had to be collected by telephone, but this was deemed inadequate for a national chart; by 1.

BMRB was using motorcycle couriers to collect sales figures. A World in Action documentary expos. On 4 January 1. 98. Gallup Organization, which expanded the chart with a . Following this, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) reduced the minimum price for cassette singles to influence sales figures. The BPI were reluctant to join and . These computers were to be telephoned six times a week, providing the data to Gallup.

Millward Brown, Research International and Nielsen Market Research were approached, and Gallup were invited to re- apply. Beginning in May 1. Charts+Plus featured singles charts with positions 7.

Top 5. 0 compilations, and several genre and format charts). In September 1. 99.

Hit Music, a sister publication of Music Week featuring (among other charts) the singles Top 7. In November 1. 99. Charts+Plus ceased publication; Hit Music expanded its chart coverage to an uncompressed (without special rules) Top 2. Singles, Top 1. 50 Artists Albums and Top 5. Compilations. In November 1. Artist Albums chart extended to a Top 2. Hit Music ceased publication in May 2.

In June the i. Tunes Store was launched in the UK, and more than 4. The chart show was then rebranded for the chart week ending 1. April, and the first singles chart combining physical- release sales with legal downloads began. Several test charts (and a download- sales chart) were published in 2.

On 1. 7 April 2. 00. JK and Joel commented during their BBC Radio 1 broadcast that the incorporation of download sales resulted in an approximate doubling of singles sales for the week. For the first week's combined chart the impact of this doubling was not readily apparent at the top of the chart, although a few singles in the middle positions benefited. Initially, the British Association of Record Dealers was concerned that the popularity of downloading would siphon business from the High Street. However, it agreed to the new rules provided that digital sales were only included to a single's sales tally if there was a physical equivalent sold in shops at the time. Since there was no rule governing a minimum number of pressings, Gorillaz released only 3. This allowed it to debut in the chart at number 2.

Top 4. 0 for a longer period. After pressure from elsewhere in the music industry a second compromise was reached in 2. The first song to make the Top 4.

Three weeks later, . As part of the revised rules, singles would now be removed from the chart two weeks after the deletion of their physical formats; . This was in addition to the existing rule that to be eligible for the chart, the physical single had to have been released within the last twelve months, supporting the general view that the chart reflected the top- selling . Whilst initially the proportion of digital sales to physical sales in the combined tally was relatively low, a majority of singles by 2.

Sales through mobile phones are also counted. Watch Get Hard (2015) Free Online. This saw a few singles gain publicity: . The impetus this time was Puff Daddy's recent performance of a new version of the track at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium.

Two months later Luciano Pavarotti's . A drumming gorilla in a Dairy Milk television advertisement helped .

None of these songs had been officially re- issued. Later they would do it again twice, with . Following the cancellation of its physical release, . Unlike the previous 1. Germany). The second occurrence was on 2. December 2. 00. 9, when . This was the result of a Facebook campaign urging people to download the song in a bid to prevent The X Factor winning song from becoming the Christmas No.

The song originally peaked at No. New rules were added to the chart on 1. September 2. 00. 7 to include one- track CD singles (with a limit of 1. CD single. A notable effect of the new chart rules is to demonstrate the enduring appeal of many downloads, especially if a physical copy is no longer (or never has been) available. Despite a seven- week gap in its chart run in late 2. Snow Patrol's . Numerous other hits are on for more than 4. Jeff Buckley's 1.

Leonard Cohen's . There was no significant example of this until early October 2.

High School Musical 2 placing six of its songs in the Top 7. A month later, Leona Lewis placed five tracks from her album Spirit simultaneously on the singles chart. Another example was anticipated with the arrival of The Beatles' catalogue online, with forecasters predicting the entire top 1. Beatles songs. A total of 1. Two of these (by Mariah Carey and The Pogues), reached the Top 5. Eleven Christmas hits returned to the Top 7.

Christmas 2. 00. 8, nine in 2. Mariah Carey and Pogues songs faring best each year. The first unsigned artist to break the top 5 was Alex Day, who reached number 4 with his single . In February 2. 01.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis topped the chart with . During the week beginning 2. June, a total of 1.