United Kingdom Charts
The UK Official Singles Chart is based on a combination of physical sales, digital sales, digital streams, and music video streams of a single song.
Chart is published on Friday afternoons (UK Time)
The UK Official Albums Chart is based on a combination of physical sales, digital sales, and digital streams of an album.
Chart is published on Friday afternoons (UK Time)
Inclusion of photocards in the album will not be considered for chart calculations.
The UK Big Top 40 chart is a singles chart based on a combination of iTunes sales, Apple Music streams, and radio airplay on Capital Radio and Heart Radio.
Physical sellers that count towards UK Official Albums Chart
Digital sellers that count towards UK Official Singles Chart & UK Official Albums Chart
Streaming services that count towards UK Official Singles Chart & UK Official Albums Chart
ACR ( Accelerated Chart Ratios) may apply to songs that have three consecutive weeks of declining combined audio and video streams, falling below the streaming market average rate of change. ACR will be applied at ratios of 200:1 for Premium Streams or 1200:1 for Free Streams. A product must have at least 9 weeks on the Top 100 chart before ACR can be implemented, starting from the 10th week.