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Best 10 Music Chart Websites

Be you an artist, label manager, A&R rep or a music business entrepreneur, your focus will eventually veer towards what music charts are and how they work.  Charts can turn music from an under-the-radar creation into an acclaimed piece of art, thanks to plays on radio airplay stations, social media rankings, digital downloads, streams on music streaming services, and more.

Music charts tell most people what to listen to and where the whole music industry is going for the time being. That said, we are only here to help you with the right, legit places to look when you want to or feel the need to check out what and what song or artist is currently popping off. So we have done all the heavy lifting by putting together 10 reliable music chart websites, in no particular order, that you can always go to for your music updates. Ready or not, here we go.

Billboard

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The Billboard charts track the relative weekly success of individual singles and entire albums both domestically and abroad. Billboard magazine publishes the findings. Additional weekly charts and year-end charts are provided by Billboard business, the internet extension of the Billboard charts. The charts may focus on a single genre, such as rock, R&B, or country, or they may include all genres.

Sales, streaming, and airplay data can be used to rank the charts, and for major song charts like the Hot 100 song chart, all three data are combined to create the charts. Streaming and track sales are added to album sales for the Billboard 200 album list.

Since July 2015, the weekly sales and stream charts have been tracked on a Friday to Thursday cycle instead of the prior Monday to Sunday cycle. However, song charts for radio airplay adhere to a Monday through Sunday schedule (previously Wednesday-to-Tuesday). Every Tuesday, the charts are made available, with the issue date being the following Saturday.

Shazam

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Shazam is an application that uses the device’s microphone and a brief sample to identify songs, videos, commercials, and television shows. It was developed by London-based Shazam Entertainment, and Apple Inc. has owned it since that year. The program is accessible through a Google Chrome extension and on Android, macOS, iOS, Wear OS, and watchOS.

Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee launched Shazam Entertainment Limited in 1999, which created the first version of the app for the UK market. Apple purchased the business on September 24, 2018, reportedly for $400 million.

YouTube / YouTube Music Chart

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With its headquarters in San Bruno, California, YouTube is an American social media and internet video sharing company. On February 14, 2005, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim officially debuted it. After Google Search, it is the second most visited website and is owned by Google.

More than 2.5 billion people use YouTube each month, and they watch more than one billion hours of video per day. More than 500 hours of content were uploaded every minute of video as of May 2019. And YouTube Charts allows you to view what the hottest artists, songs and music videos from around the world are.

Apple Music / iTunes

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Music, audio, and video streaming service called Apple Music was created by Apple Inc. Users can either listen to pre-existing playlists or choose music to stream on-demand on their device. In addition, the service offers the Internet radio stations Apple Music 1, Apple Music Hits, and Apple Music Country, which stream live content around-the-clock to more than 200 nations.

On June 8, 2015, the service was announced, and on June 30, 2015, it officially went live. Before the service requires a monthly subscription, new customers receive a one-month free trial or a six-month free trial with the purchase of specific products.

kworb.net

Kworb is an all-inclusive website dedicated to gathering and analyzing global music statistics. Charts, sales, and streams are all continuously updated. Kworb’s services cut across other chart websites as well, so basically, it presents chart updates from the major music chart websites.

Official Charts

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The Official Charts Company is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various “official” record charts in a number of European countries. Previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company, it is also legally known as The Official UK Charts Company Limited.

Spotify

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Martin Lorentzon and Daniel Ek established Spotify, a privately held Swedish supplier of media services, on April 23, 2006. As of March 2022, it was one of the biggest suppliers of music streaming services, with over 422 million active monthly users, including 182 million paid members.

As American depositary receipts, Spotify is traded on the New York Stock Exchange through a holding company with its headquarters in Luxembourg City, Spotify Technology S.A.

Genius

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On August 27, 2009, Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam created the American digital media company, Genius. Annotations and interpretations of music lyrics, news articles, sources, poetry, and documents are welcome on the website.

With a concentration on hip-hop music when it was first introduced as Rap Genius, the business gained the attention and support of celebrities as well as venture money, facilitating continued growth. The website extended in 2014 to include additional genres of media, including pop, literature, and R&B, and a platform with embedded annotations was also included.

Top40 Charts

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With its corporate headquarters in Manhattan in New York City, Top40-Charts is an American provider of global entertainment information and measurement. The capital of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, is home to the European headquarters. Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, and Beijing are home to offices for Top40-charts.com.

The business began as an online music fanzine, but it quickly expanded to print official entertainment industry news articles, sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, and MP3 downloads/streaming. One of the major music providers in the world for news/PR writing services, the company also creates instant music charts.

Last.fm

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A music website called Last.fm was established in the UK in 2002. Last.fm creates a thorough profile of each user’s musical preferences by collecting information about the songs they listen to, whether via Internet radio stations, their computer, or one of many portable music players, using a music recommendation algorithm called “Audioscrobbler.”

The music player (such as Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, MusicBee, SoundCloud, and Anghami, among others) or a plug-in installed in the user’s music player is how this data is sent (“scrobbled”) to Last.fm’s database. The information is then collected to generate reference pages for specific artists and shown on the user’s personal page.

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