The thing that makes real-time music charting possible is instant communication, and the internet has given that to the people of the world for the first time in our history. We use that access to follow a lot of resources. Here’s a linked list of the principle charts we use. If you find something great, let us know.
(We’ve left out the various blogs and YouTube channels, download charts and the like—except as reflected in the major charts. Suggestions are always welcome.)
Hits of the World
- Billboard Charts
- Billboard Singles Charts
- BuzzJack International Charts Forum
- GlobalTrack United World Chart
- Worldwide Nielsen
- Nielsen Music
- Sterns World Music Chart
- Charts All Over the World
- Lanet.lv Song Search Engine
- Top40-Charts.com
- AllCharts.org World Music Charts
- World Music Charts Europe
- The Ultimate Chart
- Planet Charts • Charly 1300 Forums
- Alaska Jim’s Music Charts
- αCharts
Europe
- The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community
- Euro200 By Country – Top 20s with full chart links
- Euro200 Chart / Euro200 New Format – For research the old format is better.
- Die Deutschen Trend Charts
- INFINITY CHARTS: German Top 20
- Charts.to – German Top100 Singles, UK Top40 Singles
- Rock’n’France – Pop-Rock, Chanson & Nouvelle Scène Française
- RTL.lu – Hitmaschinn
- dutchcharts.nl – Dutch charts portal
- danishcharts.com – Danish charts portal
- finnishcharts.com – Finnish charts portal
- Lista – Suomen virallinen lista
- Latvian Airplay Top 50
- Hitwest (French Radio)
- IFPI Greek Chart
- ARION Radio – Top 20 Hits
- ARION RADIO – Peoples Top 20
- Ellada Airplay 100 – Greek Airplay… filling a void!
- Mango-Latvia portāls
- Moj radio – Top 30
- MUSIC ONE – Deutsche, Internationale Charts
- U-Pop Radio Page
Turkey
Africa
- The Power of 5FM
- Take40SA with Mark Pilgrim – 94.5 KFM – Joburg’s No.1 Hit Music Station
- Clouds FM
- Ghana Music•com
- Top 20 – Jacaranda 94.2
- Wazobia FM, Lagos Chart
- Africa N°1 – Radio Africaine
- Playlist du mois – Radio Africa N°1
- Chidinma: 2011, My Year of Ogbonge Music
- On The Radio
- AfroPop Worldwide
- African Music on the Internet
- One World Home Page
- South Africa’s Rock Lists Website
- The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures
- NewWorldBuzz || Top 20 Albums
Asia
- Asianload.com forums
- YesAsia.com Oriental Music
- JpopAsia
- ORICON Japan
- Oricon Charts
- Oricon JaME Australia
- Chart Central (Philippines)
- GrooveAsia Popcharts
- KC Music Store
- K-Pop Weekly Music Chart
- Korean K-Pop Chart
- 2012 Oricon Number 1 Releases – generasia
- Mandopop Internet Radio Station List Of Songs
India
- Planet Bollywood – Top Songs
- Top 10 Hindi Songs
- Bollywood, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi Songs
- Bollywood Central- The top of the charts
- Hindi Home at Dishant.com
- Welcome to Radio One
- Radio Mirchi
- Ovi Bollywood, Non-film, South Indian
- Lotus FM Indian Charts – North and South, but South African, so they lag.
Very Useful list.
Thanks. It’s sure helpful around here, though it changes a lot as sites go dark or stop updating.
Most of these seem to be pretty stable, but still, you get surprised. Radio Mirchi stopped updating for a while, which was a shame because they have hit stations all over India. I almost removed it from the list, but it turned out to be a site overhaul. I just updated it, along with IFPI Greece, though they seem to only track albums anymore. Luckily, the void is more than filled by Charly1300, who are now covering the Ellada Airplay Top 100, which compiles info from 40 different radio stations around Greece for their numbers.
Suggestions are always welcome. It’s still difficult finding reliable sources for most of Oceania besides the perimeter: New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and Hawai’i; though Hawai’i is still mostly about chasing radio play, and the Philippines have always been hard to track.
Thanks for this wonderful list