Grammofonleverantörernas förening (GLF), or the Swedish Recording Industry Association in English, is an organization representing the music recording industry of

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. It has compiled and published the official

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s for the Swedish music recording industry since 1975, including the

Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, 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 R ...

and

Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, 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 R ...

. The charts are based on statistics of album and single sales, DVD-sales, digital sales as well as

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. GLF has the following members: Bonnier Amigo Group,

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Svenska AB, Network Entertainment Group (MNW?), Sony Music Sweden AB, Sound Pollution AB, Universal Music Sweden AB , and Warner Music Group Sweden AB. Since 1986 GLF has operated the Grammotex online catalog of recordings, currently holding 100,000 titles. The catalog service is open to music stores and distributors who pay a fee.

External links

Grammotex
online catalog
Sverigetopplistan
Swedish weekly charts for singles, albums, DVD, and downloads

References

{{music-org-stub Music organizations based in Sweden Music industry associations