record chart

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Noun

record chart (plural record charts)

  1. (often plural) A ranking of music (songs, albums, etc.) according to popularity during a given period of time.
    • 1975 June 2, Time‎[1], archived from the original on 22 January 2011:
      His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts.
    • 1985 November 11, “Business Notes Entertainment”, in Time‎[2], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 March 2008:
      An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month.
    • 2004 August 26, Bill Virgin, “Radio Beat: Record charts and countdowns are dusty, but not dead yet”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
      The record chart and the No. 1 song have lost some of their stature in radio, a development lamented in a column last year by Sean Ross, vice president of music and programming at Edison Media Research.

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