The UK Dance Singles Chart and the UK Dance Albums Chart are

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s compiled in the

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by the

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from sales of songs in the

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genre (e.g. house,

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, drum and bass,

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, synthpop) in record stores and digital downloads. The chart can be viewed on the

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's and Official Charts Company's website. The archive on the Official Charts Company website goes back to 3 July 1994, the beginning of the first charting week.Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40: 3 July 1994 - 9 July 1994

The dates listed in the menus below represent the Saturday after the Sunday the chart was announced, as per the way the dates are given in chart publications such as the ones produced by ''Billboard'', Guinness, and Virgin. Digital downloads became eligible on the Dance Singles and Albums Charts in June 2009. Prior to that, only

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and CD sales were compiled into the chart. The Dance Singles and Albums Charts contain 40 positions.

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UK Dance Albums ChartUK Dance Singles Chart
{{Music of the United Kingdom British record charts Electronic dance music

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