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The Eurochart Hot 100 is the main European singles popularity chart. It has been compiled by Music & Media magazine since March 1984. The chart is based on national singles sales charts 17 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

History

The first Eurochart began as the "Europarade", which was started in early 1976 by TROS Radio in the Netherlands. The chart consisted of only six countries (the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain). The compilers collected the top 15 records from each country and then awarded corresponding points, depending which positions between 1 and 15 each record stood at. Italy and Denmark wered added in 1979 and during 1980, Austria and Switzerland were included. Ireland was added as the 11th country in October 1983.

In March 1984, Music & Media in Amsterdam started their own Eurochart, "The Eurochart Hot 100", which they published as a Euro Tip sheet for the first two years. This chart was accumulated by taking the chart positions in each country combined with the national sales percentage of records in that particular country.

In 1986-87 the official Eurochart also became a music tv show on Music Box with dutch presenter .

The Eurochart quickly gained momentum, as it started to include more countries and Music & Media became a Billboard publication in January 1986. The number of participating countries in the Eurochart, which is now the EURO 200, grew to 25 in 2004 and 27 in 2007.

From 1982 to 1986 the "Europarade", as published in Music Week and the Dutch magazine Hitkrant, was used.

Since November 1986, the Music & Media Eurochart Top 20 was used as source, as Billboard started publishing the chart until today.

Artists with the most number one hits

  • Madonna (16)

Number 1 Hits

See List of number-one hits (Europe)

See also

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In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.
  • Vinyl singles consist of one or more tracks on a traditional gramophone record.

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Land der Berge, Land am Strome   (German)
Land of Mountains, Land on the River
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Eendracht maakt macht   (Dutch)
L'union fait la force"   (French)
Einigkeit macht stark
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(Royal motto: Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke
"The Help of God, the Love of the People, the Strength of Denmark" )
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Der er et yndigt land  (national)
Kong Christian
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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"La Marseillaise"


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Maamme   (Finnish)
VÃ¥rt land   (Swedish)
Our Land
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"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Historically Regnum Mariae Patronae Hungariae (Latin)
"Kingdom of Mary the Patroness of Hungary"
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Himnusz ("Isten, áldd meg a magyart")
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Amhrán na bhFiann  
The Soldier's Song


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Il Canto degli Italiani
(also known as Fratelli d'Italia)


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"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"1
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Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

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Ja, vi elsker

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"A Portuguesa"


Capital
(and largest city) Lisbon5

Official languages Portuguese1
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"Plus Ultra"   (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
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"Marcha Real" 1
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(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" Â²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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Motto
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (Latin) (traditional)[1]
"One for all, all for one"
Anthem
"Swiss Psalm"
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"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
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"God Save the Queen" [3]
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1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
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Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI
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Music Box Ltd. was a television production company that developed from a pioneering pan-European 24-hour cable and satellite channel that ran from March 1984 to the 30th of January 1987, originally created by Virgin Vision, one of Richard Branson's business ventures launched in
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Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis.
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Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on March 18, 1972 as Music Week.
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This is a list of number-one hits in Europe by year from the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles. Every chart is on a week-ending (w/e) format.


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UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine, and published online at Yahoo! Music UK (formerly Dotmusic)
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Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis.
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