Helen Ainsley

Official Charts

The Official Charts Company are guardians of the UK's Official Charts for music and video – including the Official Chart Top 40 unveiled every week on BBC Radio 1. A joint venture between record labels' trade body the BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association, the company is responsible for managing, commissioning, marketing, distributing and licensing the UK's official music and video charts. Besides creating charts which are licensed to partners including Radio 1, MTV, The Sun, Music Week, Soundnet jukeboxes, among others, the company also provides data services for the music and video industries – and operates one of the UK's leading music websites, OfficialCharts.com. OfficialCharts.com is the consumer-facing online home of the Official Charts. Seen by a monthly audience of up to 3 million engaged music fans, it is a primary entertainment news source for the BBC, The Sun, Guardian, Mail Online, MTV, NME, Press Association and more – the only place to access the Official Singles and Albums Chart Top 100 in full and search every chart ever published using our world-first interactive chart archive.