The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart and UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart are
record charts
A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, often in combination. These include rec ...
compiled in the
United Kingdom
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by the
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
In the United Kingdom, its charts inc ...
(OCC) to determine the 40 most popular singles and albums in the
rock
Rock most often refers to:
* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
and
heavy metal genres. The two charts are compiled by the OCC from
digital downloads, physical record sales and
audio streams in UK retail outlets. The charts have been published on the official OCC website since 1994. Previously, the UK Rock Singles chart, sometimes called the Metal Singles chart, that was compiled by
CIN, which later became OCC, was published in ''
Hit Music
''Hit Music'' was a weekly British chart newsletter; sister publication to ''Music Week''. ''Hit Music'' existed for almost nine years, supplying the official UK music charts (as compiled by Gallup and later OCC/CIN). The founding editors were ...
'' from September 1992 intermittently to February 1997 and interchangeably with the Rock and Metal Albums chart (which was sometimes under the title of Rock and Metal Singles chart) and also with the
Indie Chart.
Number ones
Singles chart
Albums chart
See also
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List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones
*
List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones
Media Research Information Bureau charts
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List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 1986
*
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 1987
*
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 1988
References
External links
Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40at the
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
In the United Kingdom, its charts inc ...
Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40at the Official Charts Company
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British record charts
BBC Radio 1
Rock music mass media
1994 establishments in the United Kingdom