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Record chart are a method of ranking music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 according to popularity
Popularity

Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or mainstream. Cult of personality are an important part of many people's personal value systems, and forms a vital component of success in people-oriented fields such as politics....
 during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade
Hit parade

The hit parade is a list of tunes?songs and instrumentals?that are most popular at any given time. The term originated in the late 1930s and has also been used for broadcast programs featuring hit tunes, such as Your Hit Parade, which was broadcast on radio and television in the United States for many years....
, Hot 100 or Top 40. They are primarily a marketing or supermarketing tool like any other sales statistic
Statistic

A statistic is the result of applying a function to a Data set.More formally, statistical theory defines a statistic as a function of a sample where the function itself is independent of the sample's distribution: the term is used both for the function and for the value of the function on a given sample....
, they have become a form of popular media culture in their own right.

There are lots of different criteria used in different charts used to reflect popularity, commonly: sales of records, cassettes and compact discs; amount of radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 airplay; and recently number of downloads.

Some charts are specific to a particular musical genre and most to a particular geographical location (although download charts are not easily pinned down in this way).






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Record chart are a method of ranking music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
 according to popularity
Popularity

Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or mainstream. Cult of personality are an important part of many people's personal value systems, and forms a vital component of success in people-oriented fields such as politics....
 during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade
Hit parade

The hit parade is a list of tunes?songs and instrumentals?that are most popular at any given time. The term originated in the late 1930s and has also been used for broadcast programs featuring hit tunes, such as Your Hit Parade, which was broadcast on radio and television in the United States for many years....
, Hot 100 or Top 40. They are primarily a marketing or supermarketing tool like any other sales statistic
Statistic

A statistic is the result of applying a function to a Data set.More formally, statistical theory defines a statistic as a function of a sample where the function itself is independent of the sample's distribution: the term is used both for the function and for the value of the function on a given sample....
, they have become a form of popular media culture in their own right.

There are lots of different criteria used in different charts used to reflect popularity, commonly: sales of records, cassettes and compact discs; amount of radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 airplay; and recently number of downloads.

Some charts are specific to a particular musical genre and most to a particular geographical location (although download charts are not easily pinned down in this way). 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 chart
Component chart

A Component chart is a chart which is used to calculate a more primary chart. The practice is mostly used by Billboard Magazine in the United States....
s have become an increasingly important way to measure the commercial success of individual songs.

Chart Hit

A Chart Hit is an extremely popular
Popularity

Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or mainstream. Cult of personality are an important part of many people's personal value systems, and forms a vital component of success in people-oriented fields such as politics....
 recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling
Sales

A sale is the pinnacle activity involved in selling products or services in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity....
 or otherwise judged most popular releases. Chart-topper and related terms like No. 1 hit, top of the charts, chart hit, and so forth, are widely used in common conversation and in marketing
Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
, and loosely defined. In North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, the weekly charts from trade publication Billboard magazine are most often referenced (quite often internationally, as well), particularly the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
s and Billboard 200
Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
 album charts, although there are many other charts and sources. Because of its value in promoting artists and releases, both directly to the consumer
Consumer

Consumer is a broad label that refers to any individuals or household that use Good generated within the economic system. The concept of a consumer is used in different contexts, so that the usage and significance of the term may vary....
, and by encouraging exposure on radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
, TV and through other media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
, chart positioning has long been a subject of scrutiny and controversy. Chart compilation methodology and data sources vary, ranging from buzz charts based on opinions of various experts and tastemakers, to charts that reflect empirical data
DATA

Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa is a multinational Non-governmental organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Robert Sargent Shriver III and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign....
, like retail sales. Therefore, a chart-topper may be anything from an insider
Insider

An insider is a member of any group of people of limited number and generally restricted access. The term is used in the context of secret, privileged, hidden or otherwise esoteric information or knowledge: an insider is a "member of the gang" and as such knows things only people in the gang know....
s' pick to a runaway seller. The term is also used similarly to some extent in video games.

See also

  • List of record charts
    List of record charts

    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. Examples of record charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....


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