Since the mid 1980s, the Official UK Charts' rules and regulations have undergone numerous revamps. Formats from vinyl to cassette to CD to downloads to streaming have ebbed and ...
Label execs have told Music Week that moving soundtracks to the compilations chart will benefit UK talent and help to break artists.
The Official Charts Company quietly made the switch ...
As part of Music Week’s 60th anniversary celebrations, former editors of the world’s greatest music business magazine have been reminiscing about their time in the hotseat.
So far, Steve Redmond ...
BBC Radio 1 is to launch a new Sunday Official Chart Show to “build anticipation” ahead of the final singles chart the following Friday.
The station is partnering with the ...
Last week, for the first time in history, time stood still on the Official Singles Chart, with every record in the Top 10 a non-mover.
Back in the day, ...
The OCC caused a stir on Sunday night (June 24) when Music Week broke the news of a big change in the chart rules. From July 6, the Official Charts ...
Changes will help boost new music and speed up chart – but won’t hit indies, say Official Charts Company execs
The Official Charts Company has unveiled a major revamp of ...
The Official Singles Chart is changing again, Music Week can reveal. Starting from Friday, video consumption will be included in the chart, while subscription and ad-funded streams will now be ...
The Official Charts Company has signed a new agreement with Kantar Millward Brown to continue their long-term relationships compiling the UK and Ireland’s official music and video charts until 2025. ...
As 2018 dawned, it brought up the six-month anniversary for the Official Charts Company’s rule changes aimed at producing more new hits and speeding up the upper reaches of the ...
