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25-560: The main chart contains the Top 200 downloads (which are published in UKChartsPlus ), with the top 100 published on the OCC website. The chart only uses sales of permanent digital downloads , that is single-download tracks on non-subscription online music stores . Some downloading services offer a monthly fee plan where generally an unlimited number of tracks can be downloaded within a month for

50-513: A Year to Date collection of all the current year's Top 200 albums and singles. Since then, it has expanded to include the BPI silver, gold or platinum sales awards, predictions of the success of forthcoming releases, Budget Albums Top 50, Airplay Top 100, and Downloads Top 40 . The Welsh Singles and Albums Top 75s and the Scottish Singles and Albums Top 75s are published in reference to

75-590: A certain price. Tracks downloaded in those instances do not qualify. An album equivalent, the UK Album Downloads Chart , was launched in April 2006. Before the inauguration of the download chart, only sales of physical formats—such as CD , vinyl and cassette tape —contributed towards a single's position on the UK music charts. From the late 1990s onwards, these sales began to significantly decline. By

100-722: A new colour scheme. It now also features a singles index and an albums index showing each entry's chart positions across all charts featured in UKChartsPlus . The range of charts (chart provider, in parentheses, Official Charts Company unless otherwise stated): Other features: Occasional additions: As of February 2011, there are two subscription services available, the full and the express versions (downloads: only Top 50, Year So Far: only Top 75s, no UK TV Airplay Top 40, The Big Top 40, Indie Breakers, Vinyl Top 40, Index). Back issues are available, separately, or in quarterly or annual batches. Music Week Music Week

125-616: A number of format and genre charts (Music DVD, Classical, Rock, etc.), as well as a background on sales and airplay analysis from Alan Jones. Following a redesign in October 2008, the magazine introduced live charts based on Tixdaq data, a Box Office chart, and predictive charts based on information from: Rakuten.co.uk , Amazon , Shazam , Last.fm , HMV . Music Week compiled and published weekly club charts from chart returns supplied by DJs in nightclubs; Upfront Club Top 40, Commercial Pop Top 30 and Urban Top 30. The magazine also published

150-661: A separate free-to-access site for the Music Week Directory listed 10,000 contacts in the UK music industry. In mid-2007, the magazine was redesigned by London company This Is Real Art. In October 2008, another redesign led to major changes. In June 2011, Music Week was sold to Intent Media. The package was sold for £2.4m and also contained titles Television Broadcast Europe , Pro Sound News , Installation Europe , and additional websites, newsletters, conferences, show dailies and awards events, which generated £5.4m of revenue in 2010. As of issue 30 July 2011, UBM

175-569: A weekly Cool Cuts chart compiled from DJ feedback and sales reports from independent record shops, which traced it roots back to James Hamilton's BPM section in Record Mirror (a publication which ended up as the middle dance music section of Music Week in 1991). Even though the magazine is now a monthly publication, the website still posts weekly Charts Analysis pages for the UK Official Singles and Albums charts. Alan Jones

200-443: Is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine. It is published by Future . Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer , it relaunched on 18 March 1972 as Music Week . On 17 January 1981, the title again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to Music & Video Week . The rival Record Business , founded in 1978 by Brian Mulligan and Norman Garrod,

225-549: Is still named as publisher, as the new publisher Intent Media took over on 1 August 2011. In the first edition under new ownership it was announced that the title would switch its day of publication Monday to Thursday with immediate effect. NewBay Media acquired Intent Media in 2012. Future acquired NewBay Media in 2018 and decided that the publication would go monthly from March 2021, in keeping with its Louder Sound publications such as Metal Hammer and Classic Rock magazine . Music Week features these British charts:

250-532: The Official Charts Company . It began after Hit Music , a sister publication of Music Week , ceased publication in May 2001. The new newsletter was established totally independent of Music Week , licensing the chart data directly from Official Charts Company and other chart providers. Initially, the newsletter covered: It also included a New Entries Spotlight on all new top 200 singles, and

275-648: The Official Top 75 Singles of the month , the Official Top 75 Albums of the month (similar to charts used by Top of the Pops in the early 1990s and Absolute 80s on Sundays) and the Official Vinyl Charts. Specialist charts include the Official Top 20 Americana, the Official Top 20 Classical, the Official Top 20 Hip-Hop & R&B, the Official Top 20 Jazz, the Official Top 20 Country,

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300-477: The Charts Analysis posts on 5 November 2021, Alan Jones resumed the role again, writing the 12 November overviews, with no explanation of why he returned (with the pages titled Charts analysis: ABBA's Voyage opens with huge sale of 204,000 for the albums and Charts analysis: Adele spends fourth week at summit ahead of album release for the singles). Music Week is published monthly by Future (from

325-659: The March 2021 edition), though previously it was a weekly magazine (50 editions p.a.). It was available as a B4-sized printed magazine and a PDF digital edition . ISSN   0265-1548 . As of July 2021 print edition Former editors The weekly print circulation in 1997/98 was 12,503, but by the time the publication left the ABC scheme in 2011 it had fallen to around 5,000 weekly copies. In October 2011, Music Week deregistered with ABC after 54 years of membership. The website musicweek.com had 63,904 monthly unique browsers for

350-498: The Music Week family: Music Business International (MBI) , Promo , MIRO Future Hits , Tours Report , Fono , Green Sheet , ChartsPlus (published from May 1991 to November 1994), and Hit Music (September 1992 to May 2001). By May 2001, all newsletters (except Promo ) closed. In 2003, Music Week relaunched its website of daily news, features, record release listings and UK sales, airplay and club charts. In early 2006,

375-495: The Official Top 20 Dance, the Official Top 20 Folk and the Official Top 20 Rock & Metal. Also found in Music Week are charts for streaming and various album compilations, whilst James Masterton's weekly Official UK chart analysis column can now only be accessed online by subscribers. When the magazine was a weekly publication, it included Top 75 Singles, Top 75 Artist Albums, Top 10 Downloads, Top 20 Ringtones, Top 20 Compilation Albums, Top 50 Radio Airplay, Top 40 TV airplay, and

400-602: 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 " UKChartsPlus UKChartsPlus is an independent weekly newsletter about the UK music charts. It was first published in September 2001 as ChartsPlus in order to authoritatively record the official music chart information in the UK, as compiled by

425-589: The UK Singles Chart on 17 April 2005, initially on the condition that physical copies were available to buy at the same time. In April 2006, the UK Official Download Chart was expanded to include an album chart . The first album to top the chart was This New Day by English alternative rock band Embrace . By 2007, the UK had become Europe's largest consumer of online music, with almost 78 million tracks being downloaded that year; by 2012, this figure had more than doubled. The single with

450-462: The first number one being " Bam Thwok " by American rock band Pixies . After this ten-week period, the UK Official Download Chart was launched on 1 September 2004, with Irish boy band Westlife achieving the first official number one. The group topped the chart with a live version of their 1999 single " Flying Without Wings ", a move that UK chart commentator James Masterton branded a "stunt". Sales of downloaded singles were finally incorporated into

475-486: The last issue published was number 371 (4 October 2008). In December 2008, ChartsPlus was relaunched by new publisher UKChartsPlus ; the first issue under new ownership was number 383 (27 December 2008). Issues 372-382 were issued retrospectively between January and March 2009. With issue no. 463 (10 July 2010) the publication was relaunched under the new title " UKChartsPlus ", featuring a new cover (with hyperlinked index), several new charts, and some expanded charts, and

500-635: The longest stay on the Downloads Chart is " Crazy " by Gnarls Barkley , which stayed the top spot for 11 weeks. On the week end 26 December 2009, " Killing in the Name " by Rage Against the Machine became the fastest-selling download of all time. As of 9 September 2014, " Happy " by Pharrell Williams is the most downloaded song in UK music download history. In 2006, McFly became the first band to have two number one singles with " Star Girl " on both

525-641: The main UK Top 200 listings. It also published genre specific charts, for Indie , Dance , Rock and R&B . Some of these charts are exclusive to ChartsPlus and it is the only site that publish the UK Singles Chart and UK Albums Chart positions below 75, as is the case for the Compilation Album Chart for positions below 40. In October 2008, publisher Musiqware Ltd. (formerly IQware Ltd. ) ceased production of ChartsPlus :

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550-479: The same 2004–05 period, sales of downloads grew by 743%, and overtook physical sales in December 2004. The following year, the UK's online music revenue reached £ 42.1 million . As a result of this growth, the OCC were commissioned in 2004 to compile a new music chart based solely on the UK's download sales, which was initially sponsored by Coca-Cola . A "sample" download chart was trialled for 10 weeks, with

575-412: The start of 2004, they had dropped to their lowest level in over 35 years, with singles needing to sell only 35,000 copies to reach number one. One year later, a limited edition re-release of " One Night " / " I Got Stung " by Elvis Presley topped the chart with 22,000 copies, making it the lowest selling number-one single at that time. Conversely, the music download market was growing considerably: during

600-458: Was absorbed into Music Week in February 1983. Later that year, the offshoot Video Week launched and the title of the parent publication reverted to Music Week . Since April 1991, Music Week has incorporated Record Mirror , initially as a 4 or 8-page chart supplement, later as a dance supplement of articles, reviews and charts. In the 1990s, several magazines and newsletters become part of

625-407: Was the writer of the section until he retired in March 2020, when Chart Watch UK writer James Masterton was hired to take over the role. Masterton wrote two weekly Charts Analysis pages for the website (as the magazine now features charts compiled from monthly sales and streams) until 29 October 2021, when Music Week staff performed the role. After Andre Paine and Ben Homewood wrote one each of

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