Official New Zealand Music Chart
RIANZ releases the official weekly New Zealand Top 40 singles and albums charts, as well as the Top 40 NZ singles and albums and Top 10 compilations. The Top 40 Singles Chart consists of data from both singles sales figures and radio play (airplay) information gathered by radio data collection agency Radioscope; sales (including downloads) take up 75%, with airplay taking up the other 25%.
Prior to 2004, RIANZ also published an annual ranking chart of singles and albums released in New Zealand. Position is awarded by a simple scoring system whereby a number one in one week gets 50 points, a number two gets 49 points and so on, then all weeks are added together. From 2004 onwards, however, the annual charts have songs positioned based on the number of sales for that year.
From April 2007 to October 2011, the charts were displayed and archived at the website radioscope.net.nz which lists 13 different charts, most notably RadioScope100 and NZ40 Airplay Chart. In October 2011 the radioscope.net.nz site began returning HTTP 404 error codes for all pages; a message on the default page said, "The RadioScope website is currently down following an intrusion by hackers. A replacement site will be available shortly."
In November 2011, RIANZ launched an updated Chart website, adding pages for NZ Singles and NZ Albums, which are similar to the official singles and albums charts, but which do not include international acts, showing only domestic artists. The new Chart website also provides the ability to listen to song previews, view music videos, and buy tracks and albums.
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