Charts Singles Chart(#1s; Records) Album Chart(#1s) Download Chart(#1s) Music from the United Kingdom has achieved great international popularity since the 1960s, when a wave of British musicians helped to popularize rock and roll. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The British Phonographic Industry was founded in 1973 to represent the interests of British music companies and to fight the growing problem of music piracy. ... Previously Chart Information Network (CIN). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Singles Chart, from its inception in 1952 to the present. ... Since the inception of the UK Singles Chart in 1952 there have been various records to break, including most chart toppers, longest run at number one, biggest selling single etc. ... The UK Albums Chart is a chart of the sales positions of albums in the United Kingdom. ... This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. ... This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Official Download Chart, from its inception on 1 September 2004 to the present. ...
Awards Brit Awards • Mercury Prize Kaiser Chiefs collecting one of their three Brit Awards, 2006 with Vic Reeves. ... The Mercury Music Prize is a music award given annually for the best British album of the previous 12 months. ...
Periods Pre-1950 • 1950s & 60s 1970s • 1980s 1990s - Present The diverse nations that now make up the United Kingdom were much more distinct from each other prior to modern times. ... Indigenous styles of music production and performance dominated the United Kingdom until the late 1950s, when imported American rock and roll, pop-folk and rockabilly gained fans among British youth, while American roots music, especially the blues, found its own devoted fanbase. ... In the 1970s, music from the United Kingdom further diversified. ... In the early 1980s, the death of Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols) and the alleged selling-out of bands like The Clash and The Jam led to still-frequent cries that punk is dead. ... In the early 1990s, American alternative rock bands became mainstream in the US and achieved great popularity in the UK as well. ...
Origins England • Scotland • Wales (Northern) Ireland • Caribbean Template:Englishmusic England has a long musical history. ... Scotland is a Celtic-Germanic country, located to the north of England on the island of Great Britain. ... Wales is a part of the United Kingdom, but is a culturally and politically separate Celtic country. ... An Irish band playing in the Hetzel Union Building, Penn State University. ... Jamaican music in the United Kingdom // White Reggae White reggae has very low artistic credibility, but it laid a path for genuine reggae in Britain. ...
Genres Classical • Britpop • Hip-hop Opera • Rock • Jazz This article, Classical music of the United Kingdom, includes a history of the form and discussion of its most notable composers and musicians. ... Britpop was a British alternative rock and cultural movement which gained popularity in Great Britain in the mid 1990s, characterised by the prominence of bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. ... It has been suggested that English hip hop be merged into this article or section. ... British opera is opera which was composed either in Britain or by a composer of British nationality. ... British rock was born out of the influence of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from the United States, but added a new drive and urgency, exporting the music back and widening the audience for black R & B in the U.S. as well as spreading the gospel world... Britain has been home to a number of noted jazz musicians. ...
Other links Bands • Festivals • Venues There are a large number of music festivals in the United Kingdom, covering a wide variety of genres. ...
Timeline 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 2006 • (full list) 1991 The Simpsons reached number 1 with Do The Bartman in January 1991, even though the actual series wasnt to premiere on UK Terrestrial TV until 1996 Enigma - Sadness Part 1 January 13 for 1 week Queen - Innuendo January 20 for 1 week The KLF featuring Children of The... This is a summary of 1992 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... 1993 These are the UK number one albums of the year: Genesis - Live - The Way We Walk Volume 2: The Longs January 23 for 2 weeks Little Angels - Jam February 6 for 1 week The Cult - Pure Cult February 13 for 1 week Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Words Of Love... This is a summary of 1994 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 1995 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 1996 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 1997 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 1998 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 1999 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 2000 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 2001 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 2002 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 2003 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 2004 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 2005 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts. ... This is a summary of the current year in the United Kingdom including the official single and album charts. ...
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The UK Official Download Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the music industry. The chart week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday, with the chart being compiled on a Wednesday afternoon; however, the chart is aired initially on Radio 1's Chart Show every Sunday afternoon from 4–7 PM, along with the Top 20 albums and the UK Top 40 singles. Only the Top 10 downloads are aired on the show. The main chart contains the Top 40 downloads; however, usually only the Top 20 are of main interest. The chart only uses sales of single-download tracks on non-subscription services. Some downloading services offer a monthly fee plan where generally an unlimited amount of tracks can be downloaded within a month for a certain price. Tracks downloaded in these instances do not qualify, as only single-track downloads are eligible for the charts. Previously Chart Information Network (CIN). ...
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History
With legal downloads having been on the increase since the new millennium began, the UK Official Charts Company decided to organise the official UK Download Chart. Its inception was on September 1, 2004. In early January 2005, the week before the 1000th #1 single topped the UK Singles Chart, legal downloads took over physical sales for the first time in UK Chart history. This has been the case ever since, with sales throughout early 2005 being very poor and all-time records for lowest sales being set throughout. Therefore, on April 17, 2005, the official UK Singles Chart incorporated legal downloads as well as physical sales in an attempt to boost flagging single sales. The single with the longest stay on the UK Official Download Chart is Crazy by Gnarls Barkley hanging on to the top spot for 9 weeks. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crazy is the first single from Gnarls Barkley, a musical collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, and is taken from their 2006 debut album St. ... Gnarls Barkley is a collaboration between Baltimore-based DJ and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and rapper/singer Cee-Lo (Thomas Callaway), from Atlanta who now resides in Baltimore. ...
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Criteria For Inclusion
The track must have a maximum playing time of less than 10 minutes.
PDDs (Permanent Digital Downloads) must be being sold for a minimum price of more than 40p per track
The precise number is debatable due to the profusion of different competing charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although the usual list used is that endorsed by the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and subsequently adopted by The OfficialUKCharts Company.
To add to the confusion, the chart used by the BBC on their popular shows Pick of the Pops and Top Of The Pops was actually calculated by averaging out all the others, and so didn't agree with any of them, and was prone to tied positions.
An effect of this competition for high chart positions is that a number of high-profile "battles" have taken place in which singles released on the same day have become the focus of media attention concerning which will sell the most copies in their first week and therefore enter the chart higher.
The creation of a downloadchart is a shot in the arm to the music industry, which has been battling to preserve the single as a consumer product.
A spokesman for the OfficialChart Company said the company wanted the new chart to be as "wide and broad" as possible, and was considering widening the number of services that sales data was taken from.
The launch of the offical downloadchart is part of a two-year sponsorship deal between OCC and Coca-Cola, which sponsors of the officialUK singles and albums charts, broadcast on Radio 1.
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