record chart
English
Noun
record chart (plural record charts)
- (often plural) A ranking of music (songs, albums etc) according to popularity during a given period of time.
- 1975 June 2, “Archived copy”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 January 2011, retrieved 18 February 2009:
- His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts.
- 1985 November 11, “Business Notes Entertainment”, in Time, archived from the original on 7 March 2008, retrieved 18 February 2009:
- An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month.
- 2004 August 26, Bill Virgin, “Radio Beat: Record charts and countdowns are dusty, but not dead yet”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
- The record chart and the No. 1 song have lost some of their stature in radio, a development lamented in a column last year by Sean Ross, vice president of music and programming at Edison Media Research.
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Synonyms
- music chart
Related terms
- chart topper
Translations
Ranking of music by popularity
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