Russian Music Charts

Tophit - is a Russian music project that deals with online distribution of new songs and music videos to radios and TV-channels respectively as well as publication of music charts, based on the quantity of radio air spins of every single composition. All charts of Tophit.ru are refreshed every Wednesday.

Thanks to a wide partnership geography (over 420 radios all over the world), openness and transparency of the charts published, the website Tophit.ru is often used as a source of an artist popularity in the territory of Russia. Universal Music called Tophit.ru the most reliable website, monitoring Russia’s radio air.

The first song #1 on Tophit.ru became , performed by VIA Gra and Valery Meladze, on 23 November 2003. As of 3 October 2016^[update], Cookin' on 3 Burners and Kungs' This Girl is at the top of the chart.

Tophit includes:

General charts is compiled on the basis of the data about singles’ weekly rotation on air of 230 Russian radiostations as well 200 ones of Ukraine, the CIS countries, Baltic States, Cyprus, Israel, Germany, the US and Canada, which broadcast in Russian.

Every week tophit.ru publishes Airplay Detection TopHit 100 – a consolidated chart, based on song rotation on air of radiostations-partners. The artists (rightholders) place their songs on the website, after what the radiostations download ones, they consider suitable for air, and then weekly send reports on their rotation. Anatoly Veizenfeld and Mikhail Sergeev journal “Zvukorezhissyor (Soundproducer) wrote: “That is the way, how the feedback comes from the broadcasters in this project, and it allows to receive the data about each song rotation on air of over 400 radiostations.

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