Here's the guide to clarify and expand on basic chart info featured in chartographies. Currently it hold info from 25 countries. Anyone who spots any mistake or can add anything significant is urged to contact me in the comments😊
Chart guide
(Download and open in Microsoft Word for the best viewing experience😊)
Chart guide
(Download and open in Microsoft Word for the best viewing experience😊)
Hello Vlad!! Your chart guide is amazing and has become a reference bible for my researchs, since I started dedicating more time to this incredible subject (I spent the 2010s very busy with many jobs and taking care of my father, who unfortunately passed away in 2021. Then I discovered a cancer, which I am winning after a long battle with). Anyway, have you had any updates or important discoveries about different charts in different countries since you made this guide until now? The US had several charts better than Billboard in the second half of the 80s and early 90s (HITS, The Album Network and Hitmakers, for example), but this subject is so broad that it perhaps deserves a guide all to itself. My biggest question since you made this guide, is about Germany. Was there really no hidden parallel chart there, in any newspaper? I ask this because the Metal magazines (Metal Hammer, Burn), had specialized charts made by regional research teams (Frankfurt Record Pool, Dortmund Record Pool, etc.). I don't think this kind of company would exist just for a monthly genre chart (Metal/Hard Rock). It would be wonderful to find out if in Germany there was a parallel chart to the official one in some newspapper or obscure magazine, like the MRIB in the UK or the various ones in the US (Album Network, HITS, Hitmakers, Cashbox, etc.) Thank you so much for this wonderful guide!
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