Welcome to the site with the most comprehensive stats on the UK chart. There are graphs showing song's performance accross the weeks and pictures for singles and artists.

The site contains an archive of the UK singles and albums charts with complete weekly listings, the period covered is from the 1950s to the present day. Feedback is welcome from the contact page.

September 27th, 2009
The site was moved to a different server the other day and this created a few problems. For a brief period the cover art was not being displayed and uploads were not being saved properly. If you uploaded a cover in the last day or two and it has not yet appeared on the site then please upload it again.

August 4th, 2009
Many thanks to Daniel Gardiner who got in touch to provide me with album chart data for the period from 2001-2003 where I only had the top 20. I have now imported the data and this led to the creation of 20 artists and 290 albums which had not previously been featured on the site. Hopefully this should reduce the number of questions I get from people who complain that an album is missing from the site! If anyone else has any more data I would be very glad to receive it. The next step is to add cover art for these new albums.

June 29th, 2009
The death of Michael Jackson has sent shockwaves through the music industry and this weeks chart is a fair reflection of this, no less than 28 of the top 100 singles feature the artist and 7 of the top 100 albums, including the number 1 album.

May 9th, 2009
A website user has contact me this evening to warn that a trojan HEUR:Trojan.Script.Iframer had managed to embed itself into the site. I have hopefully deleted traces of it for now but I would appreciate if visitors could be vigilant and make sure they have an up to date virus scanner in place. I would like to apologise to any visitors for whom this has been an inconvenience.

May 1st, 2009
I have made some changes to the site stats page, I've taken out the references to ratings, have put some of the most persistent releases on there and some informaton on the 'completeness' of the chart archive.
I have also made an admin activity page where you can keep an eye on what I've been up to recently and keep note of recent changes to the site.
The site stats show that 49.9% of singles now have cover art, I'd appreciate if users could have a push at uploading covers to singles that don't currently have art and try and break that golden 50% mark. Thanks for your continued support.

February 17th, 2009
I'm considering completely removing song ratings from the site, in the past the system has been abused and it appears that the same has happened again. Unless any users can give me a valid reason to keep ratings on the site I'll be taking them off at some point soon...

January 7th, 2009
I've put a collection of chart scans onto the internet in PDF format, you can access the archive here. At present there is no facility to extend the collection but I hope to provide this facility soon. In the meantime you can contact me if you have scans of your own to contribute.

January 3rd, 2009
I have had quite a number of uploads recently where the cover art has been surrounded by a large amount of white space, this is taking me quite a lot of time to crop out each time so I have added an extra step to the image upload process where the user must confirm that the image looks ok. I hope this is not too much of an inconveniance for users. Please do keep uploading!

September 18th, 2008
I've been thinking about a spin-off project from chartstats for quite some time. I'm happy that this site serves a purpose in it's current form but I am often asked about the availability of other chart information and the openness of chart data. There are also several flaws in the database design of this site that create issues for releases with featured artists and re-releases. In response to all this I am proposing a new site which is more open and has more user interaction, the site is only in the early stages of planning and I would like as much user input at possible before I start work. I would also appreciate offers of help from other coders and web developers. I have begun to thrash out some ideas on a wiki but would appreciate if interested parties could add their thoughts and opinions.

September 15th, 2008
The site has now had over 10,000 covers uploaded by visitors! I would like to offer my sincere thanks to people who have uploaded covers and helped to make this site more interesting and informative. However, there are still 22,718 singles without a cover and 7,394 albums without a cover - plenty more to do still!

July 24th, 2008
I have finally completed the monumental milestone of having a gap-free chart archive for UK albums and singles from the present day back to the 1950s! The final batch of album chart data was graciously provided by Andy Diamond and I have spent the last week or so integrating the data with what I already have. The updates may take a while to propagate through the site as the caches are gradually updated, its likely there will be duplicates that I missed and these can be reported in the usual way - through the guestbook or contact page. Now that this major task is completed I will first work on ironing out errors and omissions in the newly added data, there are also many weeks in the archive that are missing odd positions and these need correcting. Over a thousand new albums have been added to the site in the latest update and these present a new opportunity for people to upload cover art. Once the archive is fully complete I have plenty of other tasks to move onto, not least the new site design that I have been planning for the last 3 or 4 years! I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of those people who have helped in the compilation of this chart archive by providing data, covers or notification of errors - you're support is warmly appreciated!

July 13th, 2008
I have added a substantial chunk of additional data to the album chart archive. The archive is now complete from 1956-1991 there is then a gap until the current block of 1998-2008. I am hoping to find the charts for this missing period soon, in the mean time there are now quite a few more albums that need cover art. If you spot any problems please don't hesitate to let me know.

July 12th, 2008
I accidently updated the charts for this week with last weeks data. Sorry about that, it is now fixed. I have changed the chart run pages to now include small versions of the cover art where they are available. There are a couple of downsides to this, first it highlights where there are large numbers of missing covers (but should hopefully encourage users to upload them!) and secondly it will lead to longer page load times for dialup users. I hope you appreciate the change, please give feedback through the contact page and guestbook.

April 29th, 2008
I have finally finished extending the album chart back a bit further and filled all the gaps as far back as June 1998. I will work on filling this small gap next and then continue working back. If you spot any errors please let me know.

March 27th, 2008
I've added some RSS feeds to the site which can keep you notified of website news and let you know when the latest chart data has been added to the site. Let me know if you have any problems using them.