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In 1992, the singles chart became based on consumer sales after IFPI and the Irish Recorded Music Association granted a contract to Gallup, a market research company. Gallup installed Epson PX-4 devices in sixty record stores to collect singles sales data. In 1996, Chart-Track was formed as a result of a management buy-out from Gallup.
A new chart is compiled and released to the public by the Irish Recorded Music Association on Friday at noon. Each chart is dated with the "week-ending" date of the previous Thursday (i.e., the day before issue). The singles chart was first published on 1 October 1962, and covered the top ten singles of the previous week by record label shipments.
The Irish Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Ireland, as compiled by the Official Charts Company on behalf of the Irish Recorded Music Association. [1]
This is an list of recording artists who have reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart. [1] All acts are listed alphabetically. Solo artists are alphabetised by last name, Groups by group name excluding "A," "An" and "The.". Each act's total of number-one singles is shown after their name.
Ninety-five songs have charted in the top ten of the Irish Singles Chart in 2021. Of these, eighty-six songs have reached their peak during 2021. Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy and Italian producers Meduza took the first number one single of the year, with their track "Paradise".
In 2017, Carter burst on to the Irish music scene after a performance on The Late Late Show with Ryan Tubridy, performing his first single, "Trouble". [2] The single accompanied with a music video received a lot of air play on Irish country music radio stations and reached number one on the Irish Country Music iTunes chart.
Country and Irish music emerged from Ireland's showband scene, where local bands would play American pop standards tailored to Irish sensibilities. [2] The showband scene was especially strong in Northern Ireland and border counties on account of restrictions on live music performances during Lent in the Republic of Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. [3]
Eighty-nine songs charted in the top ten of the Irish Singles Chart in 2020. Of these, seventy-five songs reached their peak in the top-ten. Lewis Capaldi's "Before You Go" began the new decade as the number one single, spending its seventh consecutive week at the summit. [2] "