About

The Official Charts have been a central part of British popular culture for 60 years and counting.

With our finger on the throbbing pulse of the British record-buying, digital-downloading, music-streaming public, the Official Charts are the UK’s only official, trusted weekly barometer of what’s popular in music right now.

As heard on BBC Radio 1, Top Of The Pops and MTV, the Official Singles Chart has been chronicling the tastes of arguably the most influential music nation on the planet for more than 60 years. From The Beatles to Beyonce, Rolling Stones to Rihanna, Kylie to Miley, and Spice Girls to Little Mix, the Official Chart has crowned artist success week in, week out, across seven glittering decades.

Whether it is Blur and Oasis locking horns in 1995, the Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen controversially being held off Number 1 during the Queen’s Jubilee in 1977, or Rage Against The Machine taking on the X Factor in 2009’s greatest Christmas Number 1 battle in history - the Official Charts aren’t just the authority on what is popular in Britain, the Official Charts ARE British pop culture.

The guardians of these charts are the Official Charts Company – while OfficialCharts.com is the website which celebrates more than 60 years of UK chart history, from 1952 right up to the present day.

We are charged with this mission by the UK's entertainment industry - we are owned by two industry associations, the Entertainment Retailers Association (Era) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represent the nation's retailers and music labels respectively. In turn, we can only do our job with the support of our contracted market research partner, Millward Brown, who in February 2015 marked 21 years compiling the UK's charts on our behalf.

The Official Charts Company

Initially formed in 1998 to manage the future development of the charts in the fast-moving entertainment industry, and control rights to the historic charts, the company behind the charts operates today from offices in County Hall, on London’s South Bank.

The company is a joint venture operation owned by two key music industry bodies: the BPI (representing the British recorded music industry) and the Entertainment Retailers Association (representing entertainment retailers and digital services from HMV, supermarkets and indie stores through to Amazon MP3, Spotify and Netflix). The role of the company is to commission, market, distribute and manage the UK's official music and video charts – with its chart compilation contractor Millward Brown managing the hugely powerful databases which enable the UK to claim the fastest and most sophisticated charts in the world.

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OfficialCharts.com

The UK’s fastest growing music website, OfficialCharts.com is the online home of the UK’s official, breaking, exclusive daily chart news, direct from source, to 2.5 million of the world’s most passionate and dedicated pop fans every month. (Google Analytics, Dec 14/Jan 15).

It is the only place you can access the definitive Official Singles and Official Albums Chart Top 100 in full, plus official charts for Dance, Rock, R&B, Alternative, Streaming, Classical, Country, Asian, Christian & Gospel and more - all in one place, at the click of a button.

OfficialCharts.com delivers video interviews with the week’s Official Number 1 artist, hot new releases, competitions, flashback features celebrating classic chart icons, one-hit wonders, and the oh-so guiltiest of guilty pleasures.

The site also features the web’s first and only official, definitive database of Official Singles Charts and Official Albums Charts from the 1950s right up to the present day, updated artist chart histories and interviews with many of the UK’s favourite artists, both current and historic.

To receive a tour of this database, read our handy, easy-to-follow guide - and to get some of the background behind the creation of this database, leaf through our essential outline here.

Curious to find out who was the most-streamed act of the past week? Itching to know who is leading the Christmas Number 1 race before your mates? Want to find out just how much last night’s Glastonbury’s headline slot has boosted album sales of your favourite act?

We offer a 100% exclusive and authoritative first glimpse of all that, and much, much more.

For the latest Official Charts breaking music and entertainment news follow us on Twitter and Facebook

For any more information about us, please check out our FAQs.

The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) – British Recorded Music Industry

The BPI was formed in 1973 and is the representative voice of the UK recorded music business. As a trade organisation it promotes recorded music in the UK and worldwide and champion the rights and interests of a broad range of members, including hundreds of independent music labels and the UK’s major record company groups. In 2013 its members accounted for approximately 90% of all recorded music purchased in the UK – the world’s fourth largest music market – as well as 1 in 8 albums sold around the globe.

The BPI administers the iconic Certified Awards Programme, which awards Platinum, Gold and Silver disc certification status to music recordings as they achieve particular sales milestones, while it also co-owns the Official Charts with the retailers’ association ERA. The BPI additionally organises the annual BRIT Awards show as well as the Classic BRIT Awards and the BRITs Icon shows. The organising company BRIT Awards Limited, is a fully owned subsidiary of the BPI. Substantial proceeds from both shows go to the BRIT Trust, the charitable arm of the BPI that has donated almost £20m to charitable causes nationwide, including The BRIT School and Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, since its foundation in 1989. www.bpi.co.uk

Entertainment Retailers Association

The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) brings together the dynamic digital services and retailers who collect the sales data which powers the Official Charts. ERA members record details of literally millions of transactions and streams every week. From the smallest indie record shop to supermarkets, High Street chains, home delivery and digital services, ERA's membership covers virtually every player in the business. In generating new ways to enjoy music, video and games, not just from discs, but on tablets and via mobile, ERA members are transforming the face of entertainment. www.eraltd.org

Millward Brown

Millward Brown is the market research company currently contracted by Official Charts Company to collect sales data. The chart compilation system employs the largest market research sample currently in use in the UK and is one of the most sophisticated chart systems in the world. Millward Brown maintains a large database, the Product Master File, which details all known physical and digital audio and video releases. www.millwardbrown.com.

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    The Official Charts Company - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts.
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  • Key Differentiator
    Advertising on OfficialCharts.com Reach 2.5 million of the world's most active and engaged music fans through OfficialCharts.com - the OFFICIAL word on music. No gossip. No rumours. Just 100% official, pure pop FACT. That's what we do. It's the only thing we do. With our finger on the beating pulse of the British record-buying, digital downloading, music streaming public - OfficialCharts.com is about what's hot now, officially. The UK's most authoritative site, quite literally, brought to you by the Official Charts Company, the music industry-appointed creators and guardians of the UK's Official Charts, as heard and seen on BBC Radio 1, MTV, Music Week, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Star, NME, and many more. This site enables a broad range of brands to reach an active, engaged and influential audience through a variety of advertising solutions and packages. These are sold for OfficialCharts.com by our advertising sales partners SKY Media and In Skin Media. Why advertise on OfficialCharts.com? Following a period of staggering organic traffic growth, Britain's fastest-growing music website* relaunches for 2015 on a sleek new mobile responsive platform. Now home to 2.5 million of the biggest, most dedicated, UK chart and music fans monthly (including 1.34 million UK users), whose audience grew 12 times faster than the average entertainment news site in 2013.* CLICK IMAGE TO EXPAND OfficialCharts.com relaunch sales pack 2015.png The Audience Our users are passionate, actively engaged, high-spending music fans who value OfficialCharts.com as a trusted information resource. 54% males, 46% female, they spend £410 a year on music and splurge six times the annual average on recorded music. Official Charts users are 3 times more likely to take out a streaming subscription in the next six months, plus 50% of users spend just under £200 a year on live music.** For all advertising, integrated takeover campaigns, brand sponsorship and partnership queries please contact Digital Commercial Manager, Alex Newberry. Contact: alex@officialcharts.com P:+44 (0)2076207468 Standard MPU, leader-board formats please contact the sales team at SKY Media. Contact:skymedia.co.uk/contact P: +44 (0)207 032 2000 For Pageskin, Pageskin Plus or Tablet Edge enquiries or bookings, please contact the sales team at In Skin Media. E: publishers@inskinmedia.com; P: +44 (0)20 3580 2000. NB. *Based on analysis of top 40 biggest music and entertainment news sites in ComScore – Jan to Dec 2013. **Official Charts brand insight summer 2013.
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  • 3.6 M Estimated Visits
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  • App Url: https://itunes.apple.com/app/official-charts-company/id424790688
  • App Support: http://yuzamobile.com/support/?app=occ0190
  • Genre: Music
  • App Size: 11.6 M
  • Version: 1.1.1
  • Release Date: June 20th, 2011
  • Update Date: December 14th, 2011

Description:

The Official Charts 90’s Quiz - the most challenging 90’s music quiz on the app store! Pit your wits
against over 1,000 Official UK Chart questions specifically created for the game. This quiz will test your
knowledge of the decade to its limit.

Share your scores on social on Facebook and Twitter and compete against other players for the ultimate top spot on the Game Centre
leader board.

What was the first of Steps' two UK No.1s? Age was 'nothing but a number' for which ill-
fated singer? What exactly was 'Kinky' on the Happy Mondays 1990 top 5 hit?

Over 1,000 questions on 90’s music, created for this app by the Official Charts Company.

Climb the leader board on Game Centre, competing against your friends and other players
from around the world.

Boast about your scores on Facebook or Tweet them to your friends.

Play against the clock at three different skill levels: easy, medium and hard.

Featuring four different question types: multiple choice, guess the year, matching pairs and
true or false.

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Official Charts advertising reaches 3.6M visitors across desktop and mobile web, in countries such as United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Canada, Australia. Pricing models they offer are CPM on channels such as Display, Social, Video, Mobile, Email Advertising on Official Charts will allow you to reach consumers in industries or verticals such as Clothing & Fashion, Non-Profit, Food & Beverage, Automotive, Technology, Travel & Leisure, Entertainment.

They are headquartered at London, United Kingdom, and have 6 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. According to their Ads.txt, Official Charts inventory partners include: spotx.tv, indexexchange.com, google.com, rhythmone.com, video.unrulymedia.com, yieldmo.com, tremorhub.com, telaria.com, spotxchange.com, sovrn.com, lijit.com, smartadserver.com, rubiconproject.com, pubmatic.com, openx.com, appnexus.com, advertising.com, aniview.com, playbuzz.com, outbrain.com, emxdgt.com, coxmt.com, synacor.com, vidcrunch.com, sharethrough.com, gumgum.com, 33across.com, contextweb.com, bidtellect.com, districtm.io, lockerdome.com, admanmedia.com, axonix.com, adyoulike.com, pubnative.net, smaato.com, xad.com, loopme.com, improvedigital.com, adform.com, sonobi.com, adsparc.com, yahoo.com, ad-generation.jp, adtech.com, aps.amazon.com, audienciad.com, onomagic.com, brightcom.com, revcontent.com, nobid.io, themediagrid.com, amxrtb.com, teads.tv, freewheel.tv, sekindo.com, triplelift.com, ad.plus, apester.com, smartclip.net, onetag.com, taboola.com.

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