Chart Log UK

• The CLUK pages provide concise information on all chart entries: Act, Title, Label, Date, Peak, Weeks. These pages are updated once a year.
• The CLUK02 pages provide an incremental update for the chart year 2002.
• The CE pages provide additional information on chart entries for 1995 and Jan-Jun 1996: Catalogue Number details, Points scores & ranks, total Chart Weeks, total sales, plus the complete set of chart positions. These pages are no longer updated.

1. The charts covered in this edition of CLUK are as follows:
   • CIN UK Singles Top 200: 14.01.1995--5.05.2001
   • CIN UK Singles Top 75+125: 12.05.2001--5.01.2002
   • CIN UK Artist Albums Top 150: 14.01.1995--9.11.1996
   • CIN UK Artist Albums Top 200: 16.11.1996--5.01.2002
   • CIN UK Compilation Albums Top 50: 10.01.1998--5.01.2002
   • CIN UK Budget Albums Top 10: 11.01.1997--15.12.2001
   • CIN UK Budget Albums Top 50: 22.12.2001--5.01.2002
2. The 2002 incremental update covers the charts as follows:
   • CIN UK Singles Top 75+125: 12.01.2002--4.01.2003
   • CIN UK Artist Albums Top 200: 12.01.2002--4.01.2003
   • CIN UK Compilation Albums Top 50: 12.01.2002--4.01.2003
   • CIN UK Budget Albums Top 50: 12.01.2002--4.01.2003
   • Please note that Top 200 Weeks-on-chart data covers the period 5.01.2002--18.01.2003. This error was spotted at the final stage only.
3. Publication of the full Top 200 Singles chart stopped in May 2001 with the demise of `Hit Music' magazine. The only singles chart beyond the Top 75 published from then on is the compressed version:
   ``3.1 Singles Chart: Positions 76-200
   A single which, in the normal course of events, would appear between positions 76 and 200 of the combined Singles Chart is excluded if its sales have fallen for two or more consecutive weeks AND have fallen by more than 20% in the past week. Once excluded in this way, a record will only re-appear in the chart if its sales increase. Records excluded by this rule are shown on the printed chart report with their sales index and asterisks (***) in place of a chart position.''
4. Compilation albums are denoted by ¶, Budget albums by ¥.
5. DoE (Date of Entry) refers to the date when the single entered the charts (length varies by chart & year) for the first time that year, even when climbing from a position outside the scope of CLUK. Dates upto and including 7.01.1995 refer to the last entry or re-entry into the charts.
6. The first chart of the year 1995 is dated 14.01.1995 (compiled from sales data for 1.01.1995-7.01.1995 and published on 8.01.1995). The Chart dated 7.01.1995 is based 100% on sales from 1994.
7. An entry's chart run is not broken, even when absent for more than 4 weeks. A separate run is only established when a record is re-issued with a different catalogue number and/or on a different label. For albums this rule has several exceptions, mainly to preserve my data's consistency with official CIN practice.
8. Peak data refers to the highest position reached during that chart year.
9. WOC (Weeks on Chart) data refer to the relevant chart-length at that time.
10. (CE only) For many albums two dates are given: The original DoE (i.e. when that album entered the charts the very first time) and the date when its chart run started or the date it last (re)entered the Top 75.
11. (CE only) All data on positions refer only to the relevant chart year (i.e. 14.01.1995 - 6.01.1996 or 13.01.1996 - 6.07.1996).
    * = still on chart 6.01.1996 and 6.07.1996 respectively.
12. (CE only) In some cases a third figure gives the total number of weeks that album or single spent in the Top 75—ever. Except for a small number of instances, this is consistent with the official CIN count.
13. For some singles (1995 only) the chart record notes a peak of 0: these singles featured in the Top 200 for 31.12.1994 and/or 7.01.1995, but did not remain in the chart or re-enter thereafter.
14. (CE only) Catalogue numbers are quoted for all entries to the Top 75 during the chart year. Other records' catnos. were added only where practicable. Details
15. (CE only) I list three point scores:
    • CWSRPS(rev) (1995: points score and position; 1996: points score)
    • CWSRPS (1995: points score and position; 1996: points score)
    • Official CIN year-end Top 100 position as published in Music Week 13.01.1996 (for 1995 only).
    These and other year-end Top 100s for 1995 can be accessed here.
    Datails on the points-sytems and data on sales & releases are provided here.
16. (CE only) For some entries I also give a sales figure. This data refers to the total number of units sold by record companies to retailers (trade deliveries)—not actual `over the counter' sales to customers (retail sales). These trade delivery figures are certified (only on request of the record company) by the BPI - British Phonographic Industy Ltd. to its members as follows:
    
    Singles:
    Platinum = 600,000 units
    Gold = 400,000 units
    Silver = 200,000 units
    Albums:
    Platinum = 300,000 units
    Gold = 100,000 units
    Silver = 60,000 units
    
    Please note that my data is not complete for entries that failed to (re)enter the Top 75. The BPI was founded only in 1972 and its certification criteria changed over this period.
17. (CE only) Since the first publication of CE95 a number of (more or less grave) errors have come to light. Specifically, for some 30 albums in CE95 an error in the creation process of the HTML files resulted in the missing of a week's position whenever there's a line-break. However, most albums (even most with that line-break) are not affected. Another error caused the actual number of positions differing from the corresponding number given in the 'Weeks on Chart' section. If in doubt, just count the listed positions, and report the error to me.
    These errors do not affect the CLUK pages.
18. You can contact me at: 100421.2307@compuserve.com.
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Arrangement of Entries

DEFINITELY MAYBE   10.09.1994: 5 (52w)

DEFINITELY MAYBE Oasis

DEFINITELY MAYBE (Creation CRECD/CCRE/CRELP 169)
10.09.1994   5   (52/52) — 684.99 = 7 / 833 = 4 / 17
[10.09.1994—total weeks: 70]
*7-5-5-7-11-12-17-8-10-15-20-23-20-17-17-14-9-5-5-9-15-16-21-22-23-18-17-14-13-14-15-15-5-
6-7-7-10-12-15-17-16-23-24-33-44-48-50-51-48-48-43-24*
Total sales (BPI): 900000

ALBUM [Single] (Label catnos.)
DoE  HP   (weeks: Top 75/Top 150[200]) — points = yearend pos. (CWSRPSrev) / points = yearend pos. (CWSRPS) / yearend pos. (CIN)
[original DoE—total weeks: Top 75 ever]
complete positions data
Total sales (BPI): as certified