Radiomonitor is a British music company that tracks the worldwide

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of songs, with the information given to

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s. They have established partnerships with several international companies located in Ireland, Australia and South Africa, and compiled several airplay charts in the United Kingdom in contrast to the

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's physical sales-based

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Background

Radiomonitor tracks the

data of songs played on different multimedia platforms in over 97 countries, which is subsequently accessed by record labels and news publications through their official app, e-mail, or a

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. The company compiles several weekly radio airplay charts such as the UK Airplay Chart and Italy's Airplay Italia. Radiomonitor has established several charts in the United Kingdom for over a decade, including the Radiomonitor Top 100, the annual Radiomonitor Marketshare, and the Radiomonitor end-of-year Top 100. The data included on the Radiomonitor charts contain several disparities to the

, as the former tracks the biggest airplay songs. On 30 August 2016, Radiomonitor established a partnership with Canadian software company

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to provide two separate airplay charts for Ireland; Breaking Irish Chart and Current Irish Music Chart. The former was created to find upcoming performers, while the latter provided a platform for experienced Irish talents. It sponsored the Music Week Awards on 9 May 2019, which was held at Battersea Evolution by British

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''. The company expanded to Australia in 2017 after opening 16 offices worldwide, where they partnered with Australian music magazine ''

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'' on 6 October 2019 to provide assistance for their charts, which would streamline and accurately improve their data. Similarly, Radiomonitor announced the South African Radiomonitor Airplay Chart on 9 October 2019 after branching out to the country in 2015, where it published data from 170 radio stations and 24 television stations.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://radiomonitor.com British record charts Communications and media organisations based in England Mass media companies of England Music industry associations Music organisations based in the United Kingdom