record chart

record chart (plural record charts)

1. (often plural) A ranking of music (songs, albums, etc.) according to popularity during a given period of time.
   • 1975 June 2, Time‎, archived from the original on 22 January 2011:

     His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts.

   • 1985 November 11, “Business Notes Entertainment”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 7 March 2008:

     An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month.

   • 2004 August 26, Bill Virgin, “Radio Beat: Record charts and countdowns are dusty, but not dead yet”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

     The record chart and the No. 1 song have lost some of their stature in radio, a development lamented in a column last year by Sean Ross, vice president of music and programming at Edison Media Research.

• music chart

• chart-topper