Chart (magazine)

Chart is a monthly Canadian music magazine. It is currently the only English Canadian popular music consumer magazine operating as a paid newsstand and subscriber title. (Canadian Musician, also a paid newsstand and subscriber title, targets musicians.)

Related Topics:
Canadian - Canadian Musician

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Launched in 1991 as National Chart, the magazine was started by York University students Edward Skira and Nada Laskovski as a tipsheet and airplay chart for campus radio stations in Canada. The magazine soon grew to include interviews, CD reviews and other features. It was considered an internal publication for the National Campus and Community Radio Association, Canada's association of campus radio stations, and was not available as a newsstand title.

Related Topics:
1991 - York University - Edward Skira - Nada Laskovski - Campus radio - National Campus and Community Radio Association

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When Skira and Laskovski graduated, they incorporated Chart as an independent magazine, and began to pursue national newsstand distribution. Although it was no longer an NCRA publication, many campus radio stations continued to file airplay reports for the magazine's Top 50 chart.

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In 1996, 2000 and 2005, the magazine conducted polls of readers, musicians and music industry professionals to determine the 50 best Canadian albums of all time. In 1996 and 2005, the top album was Twice Removed by Sloan; in 2000 it was Joni Mitchell's Blue. Blue placed third in the other two polls; Twice Removed placed third in 2000. Neil Young's album Harvest was the second place finisher in all three polls. (The top five were rounded out in 1996 by The Tragically Hip's Up to Here and Rheostatics' Whale Music, in 2000 by Whale Music and another Rheostatics album, Melville, and in 2005 by Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It in People and Young's After the Gold Rush.)

Related Topics:
1996 - 2000 - 2005 - Twice Removed - Sloan - Joni Mitchell - Blue - Neil Young - Harvest - The Tragically Hip - Up to Here - Rheostatics - Whale Music - Melville - Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People - After the Gold Rush

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The magazine's primary focus is Canadian alternative rock and indie rock, although they profile important international acts, and rap and pop music acts as well.

Related Topics:
Alternative rock - Indie rock - Rap - Pop

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A monthly chart appears in each issue. Weekly charts can be viewed on the magazine's website.

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