Tuesday 22 December 2020

Chartwatch 127 is now available

CW127 is available to buy via
http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

The contents are:

Top Tracks in the Streaming Top 100
Oldest Recordings On The Vinyl Singles Chart
Charts with Most Old Albums
Collectacharts Styles – Donna Summer
Year By Year: 1950
Most 50 pt Tracks 1940-2020
Classical Years
200 Points In A Year
UK 3rd Quarter 2020




Friday 2 October 2020

Chartwatch 126 available now

Chartwatch 126 is now available to purchase online for £1.50. Please go to http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html to order.

Contents of CW126: 

US Analysis 1949

Best Year for Pop Music

David Bowie on the Vinyl Singles Chart

Rod Stewart’s Greatest Tracks

Collectacharts Stray Cats – Harry Styles

Most Hits for Classical Composers

Longest Climb to No.1 for Songs

UK 2nd Quarter 2020







Friday 4 September 2020

1988 and 1989 Chart Booklets now available

Our chart booklets for 1988 and 1989 are now available for £1.50 each at our website http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html. The booklets cover all UK singles and album chart entries during the year plus some analyses including top singles and albums of the year.

Monday 24 August 2020

Chartwatch Booklets 1965-7

 Our Chartwatch booklets giving singles charts runs in the UK for 1965, 1966 and 1967 are now available for £1 each at http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Wednesday 19 August 2020

Buy us a coffee and subscribe!

 Chartwatch now has a buymeacoffee site https://www.buymeacoffee.com/chartwatchmag. Please donate if you like what we do - you will receive the next three four magazines free to your email address.

Friday 17 July 2020

Chartwatch issue 125 now available online

Issue 125 of Chartwatch is now available via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html.

The contents of the new issue are:

Decade 2010-2019
How Big Is A Big Win?
The Best Albums of the 2010s
France Singles Chart Analysis 2019
Music Video 2019
Compilations Chart 2019
Collectacharts Morris Stoloff-Strawbs
Year by Year 1949
Oldest Song to Chart Again
Top of the Flops
UK 1st Quarter 2020



Wednesday 24 June 2020

Dave McAleer

Reader Dave McAleer needs to part with his collection of music magazines and books (and maybe some records and CDs too).

His collection consists of music trade papers and weekly music mags alongside R&B, Rock and country specialist publications that he accumulated between 1957 to 2010. The collection includes a full 50 years of Billboard and decades of Music Week, Cash Box, NME, MM, Record Mirror, Record World and similarly large sets of magazines like Blues & Soul, Country Music People, Echoes, Black Music, Dance Music Report, Hit Music and others. It also includes reference book used during the 25 + years he spent writing books and sleeve notes.

If you're interested in contacting Dave about his collection or any part of it please email us at john@chartwatch.co.uk and we'll put you in touch.

Thursday 21 May 2020

Chartwatch issue 124

Harking back to the good old days of 2019 when you could still go to gigs? CW124 contains our analysis of the 2019 UK charts. Guess who was No.1 act. Available for £1.40 from http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Friday 8 May 2020

Chartwatch long blogs

Today we introduce a new CW site, "Chartwatch Long Blogs". We will use this to publish articles about the charts that we don't think fit into the regular magazine format of Chartwatch.

The first post on the blog is "Drivetime: Top 100 Songs About Cars" by Neil. See: https://chartwatchmaglongblogs.blogspot.com/

The blog will be open to publish contributions from anyone, so don't hesitate to get in touch if there's something you'd like to post. Email john@chartwatch.co.uk

Saturday 2 May 2020

More CW chart booklets now available as PDFs

We have uploaded our chart booklets (UK singles and album charts) for 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010 and they are now available for £1.30 each from http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Friday 24 April 2020

Last upload: All Chartwatch back issues now available online

We have uploaded the last batch of Chartwatch back issues as PDFs: 1-6, 8 and 10. This means all Chartwatch back issues are now available for purchase online. Please see http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Friday 17 April 2020

CW11-20 now available online as PDFs

This week's upload of CW back issues as PDFs covers issues 11-12, 14-18 and 20. You can buy them for £1.00 via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Friday 10 April 2020

CW21-30 and 39 now available online as PDFs

This week's upload of CW back issues as PDFs covers issues 21-30 and 39. You can buy them for £1.30 via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Saturday 4 April 2020

CW31-38 and 40 now available as PDF back issues

This week's upload of CW back issues as PDFs covers issues 31-38 and 40. Issue 39 will be uploaded later. You can buy them for £1.30 via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Wednesday 1 April 2020

CW124 now available to buy online

CW124 is now available to buy online via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html.

Contents of the new issue:

UK 2019
Top Veteran Acts
Collectacharts Rod Stewart - Rhet Stoller
Weekly Sales 2019
Vinyl Albums 2019
USA Annual Analysis 1948
Most Hit Tracks for Songwriters 1940-2019

Monday 30 March 2020

Notice concerning Chartwatch 124

Due to COVID-19 lockdown we are currently unable to produce a printed version of the new Chartwatch, Chartwatch 124. We have produced a PDF version of this edition which will soon go up on the Chartwatch website for purchase.

For subscribers of the print edition we will provide a free copy of the PDF and send out printed copies when we're able to do so. If you subscribe to the printed edition please email john@chartwatch.co.uk to receive your PDF.

Saturday 28 March 2020

CW41-50 back issues now available as PDFs

This week's upload of CW back issues as PDFs covers issues 41-50. You can buy them for £1.30 via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Saturday 21 March 2020

CW51-60 back issues now available as PDFs

This week's upload of CW back issues as PDFs covers issues 51-60. You can buy them for £1.30 via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Saturday 14 March 2020

CW61-70 back issues now available as PDFs

This week's upload of CW back issues as PDFs covers issues 61-70. You can buy them for £1.30 via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Saturday 7 March 2020

CW71-77 back issues now available as PDFs

This week's upload of CW back issues as PDFs covers issues 71-77. You can buy them for £1.30 via http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Saturday 29 February 2020

Back issues 80-88 added

We have added issues 80-88 to our website. All issues back to CW78 are now available as PDFs from http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Friday 14 February 2020

New back issues page

We have changed the way you can order CHARTWATCH back issues on our website - we have integrated ordering for PDFs and our remaining printed issues. To see the full range of what's available see http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/backnum_new.html

Sunday 9 February 2020

Scans of CW Annual Chart Booklets now available

We have started making scans of our annual Chart Booklets available to buy online. These are pdfs made from scans of original physical editions. To date we have uploaded booklets for 1990, 1991,1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998. More will be added soon. Downloads are £1.30 each. See http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/downloads_pay.html