The Official Charts Company (OCC), previously called the Chart Information Network (CIN) and then The Official UK Charts Company, compiles various "official" UK record charts, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, and the UK Official Download Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.
The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Millward Brown. OCC claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week.
The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association ERA (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers BARD). Since 1 July 1997, CIN and then OCC have compiled the official charts. Prior to this date, the charts were produced by a succession of market research companies, beginning with the British Market Research Bureau in 1969, and later by Gallup. Before the production of the "official" charts, various less comprehensive charts were produced, most notably by the NME, which began its chart in 1952; some of these older charts (including NME's earliest singles charts) are now part of the official OCC canon.
All of the OCC's charts are published weekly on Sunday nights, and cover sales for the preceding week, Sunday to Saturday. Genre-specific charts include UK Dance Chart, UK Indie Chart, UK R&B Chart, UK Rock Chart and the Asian Download Chart. Other charts: Scottish Singles and Albums, Welsh Singles and Albums, UK Budget Albums. It also charts the UK DVD Chart. From May 2012, a new chart, the Official Streaming Chart is being published on the Official Charts website, and in magazine Music Week.
On 5 September 2008 The Official UK Charts Company rebranded itself as The Official Charts Company and introduced a new company logo.
Other articles related to "chart, official charts company":
... The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom ... It is compiled every week by Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 (Top 40), and published in Music Week magazine (Top 75) and on the OCC website (Top 100) ... To qualify for the UK albums chart the album must be the correct length and price ...
... Chart (2009) Peak position Australia (ARIA) 1 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 3 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) 1 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) 1 Canada (Canadian ...
... Chart (2010) Peak position Australia (ARIA) 76 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 9 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) 33 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) 18 Denmark (Tracklisten) 20 ...
Famous quotes containing the words company, official and/or charts:
“Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“There’s one basic rule you should remember about development charts that will save you countless hours of worry.... The fact that a child passes through a particular developmental stage is always more important than the age of that child when he or she does it. In the long run, it really doesn’t matter whether you learn to walk at ten months or fifteen months—as long as you learn how to walk.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)