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| UK Chart Links |
| Current UK Singles Charts |
| Dotmusic Charts The latest Top 75 singles and albums plus various other charts. |
Radio 1 Top 40 Page The top 40 singles chart, updated live as the chart is announced on Sunday afternoon. |
| NME Charts Top 100 singles and albums. |
| Commentaries & Summaries |
| James Masterton's Chart
Commentary Information on this week's new entries and other chart stories. |
Dominator's Chart Commentary Opinionated rundown of the week's movers and shakers. |
| Discussion |
| Dotmusic Chart Forum The top forum for chart chat. Registration required for posting. |
Radio 1 Top 40 Messageboard Messageboard linked to the Radio 1 Top 40 show. Registration required for posting . |
| Number One Hits & Trivia |
| The Ones Neatly-presented lists of number one hits with links to most artists, and snippets of trivia about each record. Highly recommended. |
Charts Worldwide You'll have to sit through a lot of Flash animation, but this site does eventually provide lists of UK and US number ones and twos, plus other chart trivia. |
| M G and C's Chart Trivia Site Oddly-presented but fact-packed site with lists of number one hits and other chart facts. |
Sharon Persky's Music Pages Amazing collection of lists including US number one hits back to the 1890s! Plus UK number one singles and albums and lots of fascinating statistics. |
| Past Hits |
| www.everyhit.com Database of peak positions for Top 40 hits 1952-2002, searchable by artist, title and date. Some features require Java but the main database doesn't. |
www.chartwatch.co.uk Chart runs, writers, producers, labels for Top 10 hits 1952-2002. Frames. |
| www.zobbel.de UK and international chart statistics. |
www.hogweed.org/popsearch Searchable chart runs for Top 40 Hits 1980-2000. |
| www.uktop40.net Searchable chart runs for Top 40 hits. Java. |
| Organisations |
| The Official UK Charts Company The company that owns the charts and gets very stroppy about anyone sharing them. Java-based site. |
| Broadcast Charts |
| Top Of The Pops Official Homepage From the BBC. Includes both history and latest news. |
TOTP-tastic! Unofficial Top Of The Pops history site. |
| BBC Radio 1 Top 40 Homepage Facts and features relating to the R1 Top 40 show. And you can stream the show from here too, but you'll need RealOne, which is evil. |
http://listen.to/uktopforty - Sunday Afternoon Chart Show The history, from Pick Of The Pops (yay!) to the Chart Show With Wes (booo!). This link has been temporarily deactivated for security reasons. |
| Publications |
| Guinness British Hit Singles The long-running series of chart books, now up to its 16th edition. |
Complete Book Of The
British Charts Giving Guinness a kick up the arse! |
| Artist information |
| 45-rpm Information on 45rpm releases by artists from the 1950s and 1960s. |
Collins Crapo's Oldies Musical and lyrical descriptions of hundreds of hit songs and album tracks, mainly from the 1960s. |
| Essential Eighties A highly entertaining site featuring biographies for artists who made their UK chart debut during the 1980s. |
Cliff Richard Chart Site The top home-grown UK chart star has a whole site dedicated to his chart feats. |
| In The 80s The music, movies and fashions of the 1980s. |
www.allmusic.com US-slanted site with information on most artists. |
| General |
| COPS charts page A useful beginner's guide to how the charts work. |
www.againsttcpa.com If you use computers, then you need to know about this. |