DUTCH TOP 40

The 'Dutch Top 40' (Dutch: 'Nederlandse Top 40') is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the pirate radio channel Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the pirate radio channel was forced to stop. ''Joost den Draaijer'' was the initiator of the top 40 in the Netherlands. The chart is similar to the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

Contents

History

Compilation

Stip

Composition

Rules

Current Top 40

Records in the Dutch Top 40

See also

External links

History

On January 2, 1965, the first Top 40 was compiled, with "''I Feel Fine''" of The Beatles becoming the #1 hit in the Netherlands. Due to its huge success, many similar charts as the ''Nationale Hitparade'' ("National Hitparade"), ''Mega Top 100'' and the ''Hilversum Top 30'' were created. In 1974, the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40 bought the Top 40 and named it ''De Nederlandse Top 40''.
Currently, Radio 538 is presenting the Dutch Top 40 on radio while TMF, a popular Dutch music channel, presents it on television.

Compilation

Stip

Every song that moves up 3 or more places than it was before, gets a ''stip'' ('dot'). When a song is noted in the top 10 and moves up 5 or more places, it gets a ''superstip'' ('super dot'). Also when a song enters the chart higher than the #25 positions or moves up more than 10 places in the chart, it gets a superstip.
Examples:
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★ A song enters the chart at #30 up and till at #26: 'stip'.
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★ A song enters the chart at #25 of higher: 'superstip'.
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★ A song moves from #25 to #9: 'superstip'.
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★ A song moves from #15 to #10: 'superstip'
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★ A song moves from #35 to #25: 'superstip'.
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★ A song moves from #40 to #25: 'superstip'.
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★ A song moves from #15 to #11: 'stip'.
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★ A song moves from #25 to #17: 'stip'.
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★ A song moves from #40 to #26: 'stip'.
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★ A song moves from #40 to #30: 'stip'.
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★ Any move between #40 and #31: nothing happens.
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★ A song enters the chart at #34: nothing happens. Entering below 30: nothing happens.
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★ A song moves from #15 to #14: nothing happens. Outside the top 10, a song must at least move three places to get 'stip' and 10 to get 'superstip'. This is only the case when a song moves to #25 or higher -or when it's already above #25- and it then moves 10 places.
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★ A song moves from #11 to #10: 'stip'. Any move to and within the top 10 makes at least 'stip'.

Composition

Like the Mega Top 50, the chart is a combination of single sales and airplay. The more often a song gets played on the radio, the higher its place in the Top 40. As of 2003, digital downloads are also counted.
For year end chart positions: #1 position gets 40 points, #2 position gets 39 points .... #40 position get one point. This way you just count up all numbers and sort them from most points till least points.

Rules

There is a number of dubious rules, of which some exist since 1972, that needs to be maintained:

★ Singles must remain minimal two weeks in the chart. If a single officially no longer belongs in the top 40, these are placed on #40.
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★ Example: Missy Elliott's "Lose Control": Remained two weeks on #40 in the chart, because it did not sell enough and also wasn't played enough on the radio.

★ Singles noted with the superstip, may not fall down in chart position the following week. If a single in fact was to drop, it remains on the position it ended, so the following week it drops hard in chart positions.
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★ Recent example: Guus Meeuwis' "Ik Wil Dat Ons Land Juicht": The song entered the chart at #11 (superstip), rose up to #5 (superstip again) in its second week. The following week it was meant to drop in chart position, but remained on the #5 position. The following two weeks, it went from #5 to #39.

★ Re-entry only takes place when the single re-enters within the top 30, if differently, these re-entried singles are ignored.
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★ Example: Racoon recently re-entered the Dutch Top 40 at #31 though with the song "Love You More".

★ Singles with double A-side are noted separately in the top 40; due the (possible) different number of airplay the two songs get.
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★ Example: Robbie Williams' first single off his 2005 album ''Intensive Care'' was Tripping with the B-side being Make Me Pure. While "Tripping" topped the chart by peaking at #1, "Make Me Pure" peaked at #15 in the Top 40.

Current Top 40

★ See Radio538.nl. (Radio 538)

Records in the Dutch Top 40

Most successful single-artists:
#Rolling Stones, 442 weeks, 11515 points
#Madonna, 407 weeks, 9967 points
#The Beatles, 312 weeks, 9222 points
#Golden Earring, 365 weeks, 9001 points
#Michael Jackson, 336 weeks, 8305 points
#BZN, 369 weeks, 8191 points
#Cats, 335 weeks, 8036 points
#Bee Gees, 326 weeks, 7591 points
#Queen, 323 weeks, 7577 points
#ABBA, 247 weeks, 6657 points
Artist with most hit singles in the Top 40:
#BZN, 53
#Golden Earring, 46
#Rolling Stones, 46
#Madonna, 45
#Normaal, 42
#Bee Gees, 41
#U2, 39
#Michael Jackson, 38
#Queen, 38
#Cats, 36
Best selling artists; combined ''Single top 40'' and ''Album top 100'':
#BZN, 1106 weeks, 60375 points
#The Rolling Stones, 1117 weeks, 57200 points
#Madonna, 1107 weeks, 53994 points
#Golden Earring, 1039 weeks, 53833 points
#Queen, 1014 weeks, 53647 points
#André Hazes, 972 weeks, 49412 points
#ABBA, 761 weeks, 46439 points
#U2, 906 weeks, 45913 points
#Michael Jackson, 873 weeks, 44240 points
#Celine Dion, 775 weeks, 43119 points
These statistics date from January 1, 2004.

See also

★ MegaCharts

★ Mega Top 50

★ Mega Single Top 100

External links

★ Current Top 40

★ Current Top 40 with videoclips

★ Top4000.nl by Radio 10 Gold (contains archive from 1965 to present) (Dutch)