ChartsPlus is an independent weekly newsletter about the UK music charts. It was first published in September 2001 and was established to record the official music chart information in the United Kingdom, as compiled by The Official UK Charts Company. Its publication began after Hit Music ceased publication in May 2001. It was established to be totally independent of Music Week, licensing the chart data directly from OCC.
Initially it covered:
- The UK Singles Chart up to number 200
- The UK Albums Chart up to number 200
- The Compilation Album Chart up to number 50
It also included a New Entries Spotlight on all new top 200 singles, and 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, a Budget Albums Top 50, an Airplay Top 100, the Welsh Chart, a Scottish Chart and Downloads Top 40. 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 place where the UK Singles Chart and UK Albums Chart positions below 100 are published, as is the case for the Compilation Album Chart for positions below 20.
In October 2008, publisher Musiqware Ltd. (formerly IQware Ltd.) stopped production of ChartsPlus: 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 control was number 383 (27 December 2008). Issues 372-382 were issued retrospectively between January and March 2009.
See also
External links
- ChartsPlus website
- Bibliography of British Chart books History of Hit Music, Charts+Plus, et al.
- Website of another chart publisher - Music Week Magazine
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