For that site the scarcity of source data means that every available chart has to be employed. In contrast this site can rely on the fact that since the year 2000 extensive and trustable charts are available for all the largest music markets. This allows us to estimate the worldwide top 10 songs for every single day. The UK singles chart was born within the pages of the music weekly NME on 14 November 1952. (Pub quizzers will tell you that the first No 1 was Al Martino’s “Here in My Heart”.) Providing music with this new competitive element – who was best, who was climbing fastest, who got to No 1 – proved an immediate hit. Over time, it grew into a top 30, and later the top 40.
There were many great artists in the 40s, 50s, early/mid 60s, and the few in the 70s werent didn’t have … Read More