Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the

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national

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, 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

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(in

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

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, a station owned by

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. At the end of 2006, it stopped publishing the general charts, which were entrusted to

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. Since late 2006, the chart has included legal

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. The charts became the first in the world to include

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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

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References

External links

Sverigetopplistan

Swedish Charts website
(contains archives) {{Record Charts Swedish music Swedish record charts 1975 establishments in Sweden