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commissioned the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to compile the singles chart.
Prior to this,
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used aggregated results of charts from the ''NME'' and other sources to compile the ''NME
''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...
'' (or ''New Musical Express'') was a British weekly pop music newspaper. Record charts in the United Kingdom began life on 14 November 1952 when ''NME'' began compiling the first UK-wide sales-based hit parade
A hit parade is a ranked list of the most popular recordings at a given point in time, usually determined either by sales or airplay. The term originated in the 1930s; ''Billboard'' magazine published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936 ...
. Prior to 15 February 1969, when the British Market Research Bureau chart was established, there was no one universally accepted source and many periodicals compiled their own chart. During this time the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Pick of the Pops
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'' chart. In 1969, ''Record Retailer
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...The Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
In the United Kingdom, its charts inc ...
and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums
''British Hit Singles & Albums'' (originally known as ''The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles'' and ''The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums'') was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of ...
, consider ''Record Retailer'' the canonical source for the British singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
in the 1960s; Nevertheless, in the 1960s, ''NME'' had the biggest circulation of charts in the decade and was more widely followed. After 1969, the joint venture between ''Record Retailer'' and the BBC is widely considered as the beginning of the official UK Singles Chart. ''NME'' continued compiling its own chart until 14 May 1988.
Significantly, ''NME'' had the Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they were one of the most groundbreaking acts in the history of popular music. They were responsible for ...
' anti-monarchy single "God Save the Queen
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" at number-one during the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
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. The single, released by Virgin Records
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, was the highest-selling single of the week but had been banned by the BBC and some major retailers. To prevent it from reaching the top of the BMRB chart, for one week compilers "decreed that shops which sold their own records could not have those records represented in the chart", thus sales from Virgin Megastores
Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded in early 1976 by Richard Branson as a record shop on London's Oxford Street.
In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenha ...
were not counted. Despite reaching number-two on the official chart, it is sometimes referred to as reaching number one.
Number-one singles
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