Chartwatch Annual Chart Booklets

A Guide

Chartwatch, Britain's first and only dedicated chart fanzine, was founded in 1981 by Neil Rawlings and John Hancock. Published quarterly for over a quarter of a century it has built up a tremendous archive of chart analyses, statistcs and related articles. Besides the quarterly issues of the fanzine itself (Index to issues 51–80, Full List of Backnumbers), Chartwatch regularly publishes detailed annual chart summaries.

From 1983 to 1995, the Annual was compiled by David Longbottom from the charts published in Record Mirror and Music Week. Up until early 1991, this means a Top 100 singles and album chart. The demise of Record Mirror in 1991 meant that both charts were reduced to a Top 75. In 1996, Tobias Zywietz took over compilation of the booklet and used the official CIN charts as published in Hit Music which extended the Music Week charts to a Top 200.

The demise of Hit Music in May 2001 lead to the establishment of Herman Verkade's independent newsletter Charts+Plus, now under new ownership as UKChartsPlus. It covers the official CIN/OCC 75 Singles + compressed positions 76–200 (from 2007: Top 200) and the Artist Albums Top 200.

David Longbottom also produced annuals for the 1960s, covering the Top 50 singles charts from Record Retailer.

All booklets feature full chart runs (1983 and 1984: only summaries) of the charting singles and albums, plus a number of year-end charts and statistics. The basic entries contain title, entry date, positions, point score:

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The printed booklets, as well as regular issues of Chartwatch (Index to issues 51–80), are only available from:

Chartwatch, 34 Brybank Road, Hanchett Village, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 7WD
www.chartwatch.co.uk or e-mail: Neil or John
Prices listed are for the UK only. For overseas destinations please e-mail Neil for postage costs. Payment by PayPal is possible.

Where indicated PDF-versions are available for free download.

Chartwatch Annual Chart Booklets

Year Charts Covered Format Price PDF
1952

1960
Chartwatch 1950s Omnibus:
NME Top 12/20/30 Singles, Record Retailer Top 50 Singles
Melody Maker Top 5/10/20 Albums
Melody Maker Top 10 EPs, Record Retailer Top 10 EPs
(abandoned)
Full chart runs
1961 Record Retailer Top 50 Singles Full chart runs £1.20
1962 Record Retailer Top 50 Singles Full chart runs £1.20
1963 Record Retailer Top 50 Singles Full chart runs £1.20
1964 Record Retailer Top 50 Singles Full chart runs £1.20
1965 Record Retailer Top 50 Singles Full chart runs £1.20
1966 Record Retailer Top 50 Singles Full chart runs £1.20
1967 Record Retailer Top 50 Singles Full chart runs £1.20
1983 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 100 Albums
Guinness-style
summary
£1.40
1984 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 100 Albums
Guinness-style
summary
£1.50
1985 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 100 Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1986 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 100 Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1987 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 100 Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1988 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 100 Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1989 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 75 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1990 Music Week Top 75 Singles + `The Next 25'
Music Week Top 75 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1991 Music Week Top 75 Singles
Music Week Top 75 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1992 Music Week Top 75 Singles
Music Week Top 75 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1993 Music Week Top 75 Singles
Music Week Top 75 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1994 Music Week Top 75 Singles
Music Week Top 75 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1995 Music Week Top 75 Singles
Music Week Top 75 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.00
1995 Hit Music Top 200 Singles
Hit Music Top 150 Artist Albums
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
1996 Hit Music Top 200 Singles
Hit Music Top 150 Artist Albums (from 16.11.1996: Top 200)
Full chart runs £2.50
1997 Hit Music Top 200 Singles
Hit Music Top 200 Artist Albums
Music Week Budget Albums Top 10
Full chart runs £2.50
1998 Hit Music Top 200 Singles
Hit Music Top 200 Artist Albums
Music Week Budget Albums Top 10
Full chart runs £2.50
1999 Hit Music Top 200 Singles
Hit Music Top 200 Artist Albums
Music Week Budget Albums Top 10
Full chart runs £2.50
2000 Hit Music Top 200 Singles
Hit Music Top 200 Artist Albums
Music Week Budget Albums Top 10
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2001 Hit Music Top 200 Singles; from 12.05.2001: Charts+Plus Top 200 Singles (Top 75 + compressed pos. 76-200)
Hit Music Top 200 Artist Albums; from 12.05.2001: Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Music Week Budget Albums Top 10; from 29.12.2001: Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2002 Charts+Plus Top 200 Singles (Top 75 + compr. pos.76-200)
Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2003 Charts+Plus Top 200 Singles (Top 75 + compr. pos.76-200)
Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2004 Charts+Plus Top 200 Singles (Top 75 + compr. pos.76-200)
Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Music Week/Charts+Plus Top 20/40 Downloads
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2005 Charts+Plus Top 200/250 Singles
Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Charts+Plus Top 40 Downloads
Charts+Plus Top 50 Compilations
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2006 Charts+Plus Top 200/250 Singles
Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Charts+Plus Top 40/200 Downloads
Charts+Plus Top 50 Compilations
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2007 Charts+Plus Top 200 Singles
Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Compilations
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2008 Charts+Plus Top 200 Singles
Charts+Plus Top 200 Artist Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Budget Albums
Charts+Plus Top 50 Compilations
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2009 UKChartsPlus Top 200 Singles
UKChartsPlus Top 200 Artist Albums
UKChartsPlus Top 50 Budget Albums
UKChartsPlus Top 50 Compilations
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2010 UKChartsPlus Top 200 Singles
UKChartsPlus Top 200 Artist Albums
UKChartsPlus Top 50 Budget Albums
UKChartsPlus Top 50 Compilations
Full chart runs £2.50 pdficon_large (1K)
2011 UKChartsPlus Top 200 Singles
UKChartsPlus Top 200 Artist Albums
UKChartsPlus Top 50 Budget Albums
UKChartsPlus Top 50 Compilations
Full chart runs draft only
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Due to personal circumstances after the death of my father and other pressing obligations and constraints,
I am unable to continue with any further annuals.

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