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After some surfing around, I've found quite a number of sites where the current official UK singles chart is reproduced. As far as I can see, none of these allow you to see earlier charts -- not even last week's. Is this due to copyright restrictions or something, or am I just crap at this here Interweb thing? Put another way, are archives of the charts available anywhere except in aggregated Guinness book form?

― OleM, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hah! Finally I understand why people immediately answer themselves!

― OleM, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

― N., Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks; that was my guess too.
Re books: Are there any books that contain the full charts, published yearly or so?

― OleM, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Guinness Book of British Hit Singles is updated every two years

(is it still though? and is it still Guinness, ed.Gambaccini? i just realised my beloved falling-apart copy is 14 years out of date aaargh!!)

to amazon i go sharpish

― mark s, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually looking at it properly it doesn't of course print the *full* charts, week-on- week, though you can work em out with a bit of effort and imagination from the info you actually do get

― mark s, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"A bit of effort and imagination"??

Is this a mathematician's idea of a joke?

Actually, at the end of term our maths teacher Mr Banson once wrote some long proof on the blackboard and then told us it was 'a mathematical joke'. Needless to say, it was rubbish.

― N., Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Guinness Book of Top 40 Charts might be hard to find these days: most recent edition to my knowledge has every chart from March 1960 to December 1995

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh right - that's sounds good. Different from British Hit Singles, then.

― N., Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw something similar (perhaps it was the Guinness one) recently which covered 1960 to 1999. I was utterly broke so I didn't buy it even though it was very cheap.

There are a few pages on the net that still (illegally) have partial archives but a lot of the good ones had to be removed. They shouldn't be too hard to find if you're handy with a search engine.

― EdwardO, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the Guiness books supposedly have many mistakes though (i've spotted a couple, so i can believe it), so maybe you'd want to double check somehow if you're using it for research. for fun though they're great

― michael, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This here is pretty useful: www.martinsmusic.freeserve.co.uk/top40/

― scott p., Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wow! thanks.

do you think he typed them all in himself?

― michael, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, Scott! That one gives exactly what I miss in the Guinness British Hit Singles -- a feel of the chronology.

― OleM, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BTW, the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles will have a new edition out on 24 May, according to an e-mail I received from the editors.

And of course he's typed them all in by himself, otherwise there's a risk it'd be violation of copyright, right? *runs off to download the data while it's there*

― OleM, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/23194825

The top 10 selling dance singles this year are as follows:
1. Get Lucky - Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams
2. Waiting All Night - Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre
3. I Could Be The One - Avicii vs Nicky Romero
4. White Noise - Disclosure ft. AlunaGeorge
5. Need U (100 Percent) - Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E
6. Drinking From The Bottle - Calvin Harris ft. Tinie Tempah
7. I Need Your Love - Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding
8. Get Up (Rattle) - Bingo Players ft. Far East Movement
9. Feel This Moment - Pitbull ft. Christina Aguilera
10. Harlem Shake - Baauer
Dance music has become the UK's third most popular genre.
Releases from the likes of Disclosure, Daft Punk and Calvin Harris helped its sale figures overtake R&B in the first half of 2013.
Tracks like Get Lucky [Daft Punk] and I Need Your Love [Calvin Harris] allowed dance music to claim its highest market share, 16.3%, since 2006.
Only pop and rock music have been more popular this year, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, said: "Dance music is well on its way to becoming one of the defining sounds of 2013.
"It's drawing in artists normally associated with other genres, such as hip-hop and dubstep. These fresh influences are giving 2013's dance music an edge which is really cutting through to fans."
Disclosure, Rudimental and Duke Dumont are on track to sell a combined 250,000 singles and albums this year.
AlunaGeorge, who announced their first UK tour this week, were among the other top-selling artists in the genre.
Ben Turner, co-founder of the Association for Electronic Music, added: "The explosion of electronic dance music in the USA is well-documented worldwide. It's great for the UK to now be in a position to reveal statistics as strong as this to show how dance music continues to drive the UK music business forward."

I thought rock was dead

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 5 July 2013 20:18 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQHZ7nvBSLY

― Meine Damen und Herren, ein grosse sh*tstorm! (snoball), Friday, 5 July 2013 20:22 (twelve years ago)

UK chart rock has been dead to me for a long time mind you

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 5 July 2013 20:25 (twelve years ago)

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