Top40-Charts

Top40-Charts
Type of site
 Music Industry
Available in English
Created by Markos Giannopoulos, Paris Kazakis
Website top40-charts.com
Alexa rank Decrease 10,607 (May 2016) [1]
Commercial Yes
Registration None
Launched 2001 (2001)
Current status Online

Top40-charts.com, Inc. is an American global entertainment information and measurement company with headquarters in Manhattan in New York City. The European headquarters are in Luxembourg's capital, Luxembourg. Top40-charts.com has bureaus in Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Thessaloniki and Beijing.[2] The company started as an online music fanzine, but soon diversified, publishing official entertainment industry news content, selling DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming and MP3 downloads/streaming. The company also produces instant music charts and is one of the world's largest music provider for News/PR writing services.

Description

Top40-Charts.com transformed to a leading global information and measurement company that enables music industry companies to understand consumers and consumer behavior. Top40 charts measures and monitors what consumers watch (programming TV, streaming) and what consumers buy (categories, brands, products) on global and local basis. It provides research and strategic consulting to large entertainment industry organizations in many countries, focusing on music analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations have a real global view. The company employs roughly one hundred full-time employees, including about 25 scientists, and many avocational researchers in different countries. Although the Top40-Charts conducts surveys primarily of entertainment industry and it has participated in or carried out multiple "international opinion research projects".

The role of the company is to commission, market, distribute and manage the World's sales/ radio/ video/ streaming charts – to enable the people to claim the fastest and most sophisticated charts in the world. Now its programmers manage the future development of the charts in the fast-moving entertainment industry. It is a unique place where one can access the definitive Official Charts: World Singles Top100, Airplay Singles Top100 and European Singles Top100 in full, plus official global charts for Dance, Rock, R&B, Alternative, Streaming, Classical, Country, Christian & Gospel, Asian, European and more - all in one place, at the click of a button. Top40-charts is known for its annual Year-End Charts and the reviews for "the best of the best".

Usage as a source of reference

Top40-charts.com is a major free source for many entertainment textbooks, music books, encyclopedias or biographies which are focusing on its official and real information about the global music market (see notes below):

Year-End Charts

Annual year-end charts are produced by Top40-Charts.

Top40-Charts Albums of the Year

Year Artist Album
2001 Santana Supernatural
2002 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
2003 White Stripes – Elephant
2004 Green Day – American Idiot
2005 – Bruce Springsteen – Devils & Dust
2006 – Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
2007 – Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
2008 – TV on the Radio – Dear Science
2009 U2 No Line On The Horizon
2010 Vampire Weekend Contra
2011 Adele 21
2012 Frank Ocean Channel Orange
2013 Daft Punk Random Access Memories
2014 Black Keys Turn Blue
2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly

Top40-Charts Singles of the Year

Year Artist Single
2001 Train (band) Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)
2002 Norah Jones Don't Know Why
2003 Evanescence Bring Me to Life
2004 Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out
2005 Green Day Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
2006 Justin Timberlake My Love
2007 Amy Winehouse Rehab
2008 Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire
2009 Beyoncé Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
2010 Lady Antebellum Need You Now
2011 Adele Rolling In The Deep
2012 Gotye & Kimbra Somebody That I Used To Know
2013 Daft Punk Get Lucky
2014 Sam Smith Stay With Me
2015 Drake Hotline Bling

References

  1. ↑ "top40-charts.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "About Top40-Charts.com". Top40-Charts.com. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia of Icelandic Music. PediaPress.
  4. ↑ A Rush of Blood to the Head. PediaPress.
  5. ↑ Korn. PediaPress.
  6. ↑ Phil Collins. epubli.
  7. ↑ Eminem. epubli.
  8. ↑ Duthel, C. Pitbull - Mr. Worldwide. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781471090356.
  9. ↑ Hombach, Jean-Pierre. 50 Cent. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781471603853.
  10. ↑ Acid Jazz. PediaPress.
  11. ↑ Backstreet Boys. Hyin Thera.
  12. ↑ Gwen Stefani Discography. PediaPress.
  13. ↑ Bryan Adams: A Complete Guide. Serij.
  14. ↑ Christina Aguilera: A Complete Guide. Brav Umaric, Milute H.J.
  15. ↑ English in the Netherlands: Functions, forms and attitudes. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  16. ↑ Latinos and American Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO.
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