Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the
Swedish
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national
record chart
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, often ...
, formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the
Swedish Recording Industry Association
Grammofonleverantörernas förening (GLF), or the Swedish Recording Industry Association in English, is an organization representing the music recording industry of Sweden. It has compiled and published the official record charts for the Swedish mu ...
(in
Swedish
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* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
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Grammofonleverantörernas förening). Before Topplistan, music sales in Sweden were recorded by Kvällstoppen, whose weekly chart was a combined albums and singles list.
History
For the period of 1976 to 2006, the official Swedish music charts were published by
Sveriges Radio P3
P3 (''Sveriges Radio P3'' or ''pe tre'') is a mainstream CHR-formatted station operated by Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization Sveriges Radio. The P in P3 originally stood for Program (''Programme'') but today has no ...
, a station owned by
Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is d ...
. At the end of 2006, it stopped publishing the general charts, which were entrusted to
Swedish Recording Industry Association
Grammofonleverantörernas förening (GLF), or the Swedish Recording Industry Association in English, is an organization representing the music recording industry of Sweden. It has compiled and published the official record charts for the Swedish mu ...
in the beginning of 2007. However, Sveriges Radio P3 continued to publish the most downloaded music charts, according to the statistics compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The new strictly-download chart was called
DigiListan
DigiListan is a Swedish radio programme in SR P3 airing the top singles sold electronically to computers, mobile phones and other kinds of media players in Sweden (downloaded music). The statistics are created using Nielsen SoundScan.
The progr ...
.
Since late 2006, the chart has included legal
downloads
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. The charts became the first in the world to include
music streaming
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with singles (29 October 2010)
and then with albums (2013).
From 14 November 1975 to 8 September 1993 the chart was only published every 2 weeks.
Charts
Album charts
Song charts
List of number one hits
*
List of number-one singles and albums in Sweden
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See also
* ''
Tio i Topp
''Tio i Topp'' (English: ''Ten At The Top'') was a Swedish record chart and radio program broadcast by Sveriges Radio P3 between the years of 1961 and 1974. It was launched to combat pirate radio charts and was the first official Swedish record cha ...
'' - contemporary record chart between 1961 and 1974
*
DigiListan
DigiListan is a Swedish radio programme in SR P3 airing the top singles sold electronically to computers, mobile phones and other kinds of media players in Sweden (downloaded music). The statistics are created using Nielsen SoundScan.
The progr ...
- ''The Official Swedish Download Chart''
References
External links
SverigetopplistanSwedish Charts website(contains archives)
{{Record Charts
Swedish music
Swedish record charts
1975 establishments in Sweden