GfK Entertainment Charts

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GfK Entertainment Charts is the official music charts in Germany and collected and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and GfK Media Controls International GmbH ) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Phonographic Industry Association). GfK Entertainment is a Top 100 single & amp; album charts, as well as various other chart formats for genres such as compilation, jazz, classical music, schlager, hip hop, dance, comedy and music videos. After the March 2014 lawsuit by Media Control AG, Media ControlÃ,® GfK International had to change its name.

The dissemination of the charts is done by various media, some of which include the VIVA music channel, and the Swiss graphics website. Other entities that present the charts are MusicLoad and MIX 1, both of which are online associations that post almost all the charts published by GfK Entertainment every week. In addition, GfK Entertainment also runs special websites that provide tab related news and access to most of the charts.

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History

The chart has been published in Germany since 1959, in a magazine called Der Musikmarkt (The Music Market), which has played an important role in the German music industry. Since 1959, a growing desire to have a well-developed music program has made Bundesverband Musikindustrie work with graphics providers to improve the way charts are defined.

For this purpose, different research institutes are tested, in which Media Controls, based in Baden-Baden, are selected. Therefore, the first official chart was made available in the magazine Der Musikmarkt in September 1977.

Initially, there were only 50 positions, then in January 1980, extended to 75 slots. Since 1989, however, GfK Entertainment has adapted international standards that provide 100 positions, now called "Official Top 100 Charts" [Official Top 100 Charts]. In 2001, the Top-100 single chart was modified to reflect the sales of singles.

Media Control developed the "Music Video charts" in 2001, which later, in 2004, was renamed "DVD charts". While the music-video has their own separate chart, in 2001, GfK Entertainment enabled music-video singles to have the ability to enter the Top-100 singles chart. Similarly, in 2002, it was made available for music-video albums to map on the Top-100 album charts, if the video album contained at least 50% of the audio recording. If not, then, DVD albums may qualify for DVD charts only. In the same vein, if the audio CD contains at least 50% of the video recording, then, it could be eligible to map on the DVD chart.

In 2003, Media Control merged with GfK, so the company name was officially changed to Media Control GfK International GmbH .

In 2004, Germany became one of the first music markets in which sales charts were reflected from digital downloads online.

The digital release just appeared on July 13, 2007, only for online downloads, which also changed the way sales figures were done up to that point. As a result, the position of the graph will not be affected by the number of music downloads sold as before, but more, they will be affected by the sale value of the sold product. As such, the best-selling album does not have to be the ending in the number one position on the charts.

In March 2014, GfK announced that the name of the official graphics provider in Germany would change from GfK International Media Controls GmbH to GfK Entertainment.

There are currently 3,000 outlets reporting their sales on weekly bases in Germany. Weekly sales data is sent to GfK Entertainment via a network communication channel, PhonoNet .

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Category

This is a list of categories, for each graph provided by GfK Entertainment.

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Records and statistics

• List of number one hit in Germany
• The list of the best-selling singles of the year (Germany)

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See also

• Bundesverband Musikindustrie

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References

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External links

• Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German)
• GfK Entertainment (in German)
• germancharts.com (in German) Provided by Hitparade.ch, the Swiss chart website

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