TurnTable Charts

''TurnTable'' charts is a catalog of relative weekly, and yearly popular songs in Nigeria. The results are published in ''TurnTable'' magazine. ''TurnTable'' provides additional weekly charts, as well as the End of the Year Top 50. The charts can be ranked according to airplay, and digital streaming. For main song charts such as the ''TurnTable'' Top 100, all three data are used to compile the charts. For End of the Year Top 50, streams and airplay from ''TurnTable'' Top 100 are included.

History

On 3 July 2020, ''TurnTable'' magazine launched the ''TurnTable'' Chart, with its weekly official chart ''TurnTable'' Top 50, first led by Wizkid "Ginger" featuring Burna Boy, on the number one spot. The chart combines single sales (digital and physical), radio airplay, and online streaming activity (including data from YouTube, Boomplay Music, Audiomack, Apple Music, Deezer and Spotify).

In March 2021, ''TurnTable'' announce its partnership with City FM 105.1, for the syndication of ''TurnTable'' Top 50. As the weekly results will be announced on City 105.1 FM radio show City Cafe, hosted by Melody Hassan. On 12 March 2021, ''TurnTable'' Charts partnered with WeTalkSound, and launched the Recording Certification of Nigeria. On 21 May 2021, ''Turntable'' Charts announced its partnership with The Aristokrat Group. As the partnership allows both companies collaborate in the exchange of data and ideas to improve music consumption, documentation, and chart culture in Nigeria. On 24 May 2021, ''Turntable'' Charts announce its partnership with Chocolate City, as both companies will exchange data and ideas in improving music consumption, documentation, and chart culture in Nigeria. On 14 July 2021, ''TurnTable'' announced its first direct partnership between ''TurnTable'' Chart, and Boomplay. As its partnership allows, Boomplay to distribute its data on the most streamed songs in Nigeria.

On 30 December 2021, Oye Akideinde and Bizzle Osikoya joined ''TurnTable'' as executives. On 31 March 2022, ''TurnTable'' began collecting data from Apple Music, Deezer and Spotify into its charts. It also announce the expansion of the ''TurnTable'' Top 50 chart, into Top 100 in June 2022.

2020–2023: charts created, renamed, and expanded

On 3 July 2020, ''TurnTable'' Top 50 was launched to measure the trends and performance of songs in Nigeria. On 6 July 2020, Airplay Top 50 was launched to incorporate radio airplay data provided by Radiomonitor over the week. The ''TurnTable'' Airplay Top 50 chart blends total numbers of plays on the radio from over 50 radio stations in Nigeria. On 14 July 2020, ''TurnTable'' magazine launched Top 50 Streaming Songs, to monitor the most streamed weekly song on digital platforms.

On 21 August 2020, Top Triller Chart Nigeria was launched in collaboration with Triller. It highlights the most popular songs on the video based app on a methodology that blends the amount of views containing a respective songs, the level of engagement with those videos and the raw total of videos uploaded featuring each song, according to Triller’s data. On 7 September 2020, TurnTable TV Top songs was launched to monitor top 50 songs from 5 cable television channels (data sourced from Radiomonitor/Media Planning Service). On 14 September 2020, TurnTable Digital Song Sales was launched to combine sales of physical and digital sells of songs for a summarized figure.

On 31 March 2022, ''TurnTable'' announce the expansion of the ''TurnTable'' Top 50, into Top 100. The chart expansion will be supported by ''TurnTable'' Top 200, as the official album-based chart, and the ''TurnTable'' Top Artiste 100, to watch the performance based on the artiste. The ''TurnTable'' Top 100, Top 200, and Top Artiste 100, launched in June 2022. On 27 May 2022, ''TurnTable'' launched the " Next Rated Leaderboard", in the first quarter of its yearly issue, based on the cumulative ranking of the best performing new artiste, published monthly by ''TurnTable'', with data based on its total streams across streaming services, radio, and TV. These are artistes that would be eligible for The Headies Next Rated award.

On July 11, 2022, following the expansion of the ''TurnTable'' Top 50, into the Top 100, the Airplay Top 50, was renamed to Top Radio Songs. The chart was launched on 13 July 2022 and began ranking the 100 top songs on the radio. The TV Top songs were also renamed to Top TV Songs, and began ranking the top 100 songs on TV. The Top 50 Streaming Songs were also renamed to Top Streaming Songs, and began ranking top 100 songs on digital streaming. On 8 November 2022, the album's official chart, began operation as the current TurnTable Top 50 chart instead of TurnTabel Top 200, as announced in March. The Nigeria album chart employs the same metrics as the Top Streaming Songs chart.

On 6 February 2023, Ayomide Oriowo, and Kayode Babatola announce the launching of TurnTable Top Catalog Songs, to begin operation on 8 February 2023.

Songs

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Genre

Other Charts

On 30 June 2021, ''TurnTable'' and ''The Native'' launched their summer chart. On 6 September 2021, ''TurnTable'' charts published the final issue of the chart with Wizkid "Essence", emerging as number 1 on Global chart, Master KG "Jerusalema", topping the African chart, and Ladipoe "Feeling" leading the Songs of the Summer chart.

Albums

Main

Genre

References

See also

{{Official website, https://www.turntablecharts.com/
Nigerian record charts
2020 establishments in Nigeria
TurnTable charts