Hitlisten, also known as Tracklisten, is a

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top 40

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that is updated every Thursday midnight on the website hitlisten.nu. The weekly Danish singles chart

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combines the 40 best-selling tracks from legal music downloads and the sales of music singles on either CD or

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. The data are collected by

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, who also compile the chart on behalf of

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(International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).

1965–1993: early IFPI charts

This chart began in April 1965 as a monthly top 20 chart compiled by the Danish branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). It was published in several major Danish newspapers. Prior to that several Danish charts were compiled by competing newspapers. From April 1969 it went weekly after Denmark's Radio stopped publishing their weekly top 20 chart. From May 1973 to December 1978 singles and albums were presented on the same chart due to a request from Denmark's Radio for variety in their chart show. During this period only few singles reached the top. The formats were finally split again in January 1979.

1993–2001: Nielsen Music Control and IFPI

Danish IFPI continued producing single charts in the 1980s and 1990s even though not many singles were sold. Prior to 1993, Denmark was the only market in Scandinavia without a fully recognized and reliable airplay chart. In January 1993, ''Music & Media'' announced that IFPI Denmark was moving towards launching a national airplay chart through collaboration with AC Nielsen. Beginning in 1993, Danish charts were compiled by

(originally AC Nielsen).

2001–2007: Hitlisten

The Danish Singles Chart Hitlisten consisting of Single Top-20 and Download Top 20 was relaunched 1 January 2001 and served as official chart for Danish

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until end of October 2007.

2007–present: Tracklisten/Hitlisten

Tracklisten was established on 2 November 2007 replacing the Hitlisten charts that were discontinued at the end of October 2007.
English translation
The chart is supervised by

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and contained three charts: *Track Top-40 (for singles) *Album Top-40 (for albums) *Streaming Top-20. (for singles) Hitlisten also continued to publish specialised charts: *Compilation Top-10 *Bit Album Top-20 *Bit Track Top-20 *Ringtoner Top-10 *Airplay Top-20 *Musik DVD Top-10 *Entertainment DVD Top-10 *TV-serie DVD Top-20 Tracklisten was also updated back to week 1, 2007, thus creating an overlap of sometimes differing chart #1s between Hitlisten and Tracklisten for the period 1 January 2007 and 2 November 2007 (weeks 1 to 42 / 2007).

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