Q: What are
the BPI Sales Awards? |
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A: The BPI is the British
Phonographic Industry, they are the industry body that verifies record
shipments and awards silver, gold and platinum discs. The BPI Sales
Awards section in UKChartsPlus lists every week which records have been
awarded silver, gold, platinum and multi-platinum status in the previous
week. |
Q: Why do you call it a "newsletter"? Is it not a magazine? |
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A: If we said
"Magazine", then most people would expect a glossy colourful
magazine, with advertisements, news, backgrounders, etc. The content of
such magazines is often influenced by the wishes of the advertisers. We
use the phrase "Newsletter", because
we provide factual information for our subscribers, without being
controlled by advertisers. UKChartsPlus contains facts, and facts only. No
ads - Just facts! |
Q: Will the Year End charts be published in UKChartsPlus? |
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A: No, however, 2001 - 2013 are currently available to
view or download at this web site. Click
here for these. |
Q: Do you publish any chart books? |
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A: No, we don't. There are already three very good books about the UK charts and we don't
think that there is a need for a fourth. Click here
for links to the existing books. |
Q: Why don't you publish actual sales figures? |
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A: Unfortunately, The Official UK Charts Company supplies that information only to the industry. They are not willing to provide that information to
UKChartsPlus. |
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Q: Why are there two versions or UKChartsPlus? |
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A: The Top 200 Download Singles, Top 100 Download
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Albums Top 20s, YTD Singles & Albums Top 100, Radio Airplay Top 200, TV Airplay Top
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Q: I am a subscriber, but I don't appear to have received
my copy of UKChartsPlus this week. What can I do? |
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A: We try our best
to supply the week's issue on Wednesday evening or during the early hours
of Thursday morning, but on rare occasions, we have no option than to move
this to Thursday evenings. During the process of sending, we receive
a few "fail to send" messages from the recipient's ISP and will always
re-try (although if an e-mail account has reached capacity, our subsequent
messages will not get through until unwanted messages have been removed!).
Sometimes, the PDF will be delivered to your SPAM box in
error (outside our control!), so if you've checked this and still have no
copy:
From UKChartsPlus 532 (2nd November 2011), we will be
updating a page on the web site after the PDFs have been sent, so you know
if you've missed yours. To view the current status, please click
here. |