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A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music judging by the
popularity during a given period of time. Although primarily a marketing or
supermarketing tool like any other sales statistic, they have become a form of popular
media culture in their own right.
Record charts are compiled using a variety of criteria. These commonly include sales of
records, cassettes and compact discs; amount of radio airplay; requests to radio disk
jockeys; voting for songs by the radio listeners and, more recently, number of downloads
and streams.
Some charts are specific to a particular musical genre and most to a particular geographical
location. The most common period of time covered by a chart is one week, with the chart
being printed or broadcast at the end of this time. Summary charts for years and decades are
then calculated from their component weekly charts. Component charts have become an
increasingly important way to measure the commercial success of individual songs.
Reviewers often describe records using round number milestones within a chart. For
example, a record that peaks at number 7 may be called a "Top 10" hit, even when there is
no chart limited to only the top 10 records in that particular location.
Contents
1 Africa
2 Asia
3 Europe
4 North America
5 Oceania
6 South America
7 Notes
8 References
9 Bibliography
10 External links
Africa
South Africa
Entertainment Monitoring Africa
Asia
One Asia Chart Lebanon
Indonesia G-Music
Hit FM Hit-O-Radio Chart
Billboard Indonesia KKBox
o Billboard Indonesia
Top 100 Thailand
Media Forest
Japan
Myanmar