I noticed this UK Top 40 Charts site & wonder where this feed is from? (I'd guess iTunes)

 

But what is based on? As it say's official & up to date. Which it does look, like. It's certainly not the rolling iTunes chart. Is it rolling on a complete week?

 

http://www.uktop40.co.uk/official_top_40.rss

Edited August 22, 201212 yr by davetaylor

It seems like the rolling itunes chart to me

That's not the rolling iTunes chart, Taylor's at #4, not #8.

 

That's weird, cause it's obviously not official...

Is that a rolling chart at all? How often does it update?

Is that a rolling chart at all? How often does it update?

I'd hazard a guess, that it's iTunes, with pre-orders included, but I don't know. It has last Saturday's date on it. So, it must update, each Saturday. In which case, it's the complete week on iTunes & you've got the pre-orders in, as a bonus. Bit of a clue, to what is likely to happen, the following week, i'd guess.

 

Obviously they could use "Official" as in "Official" week on iTunes, only. I've been playing around with it & if you remove the pre-order bit, the top ten turns into the first part of Big Top 40, when they start the show by playing the top 10 of the week on iTunes. Funny, what you stumble on! Plus it looks like "Chart Show TV" base their top 20 singles chart, around it. Though in an abstract form i.e. we're not playing that or that.

 

There's an album feed too:

http://www.uktop40.co.uk/official_top_40_albums.rss

Edited August 24, 201212 yr by davetaylor