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The Irish Singles Chart is the
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popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and compiled on their behalf by the
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. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically each day from retailers' EPOS systems. All major record shops, digital retailers and streaming services contribute to the chart, accounting for over 95% of the market. 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. As of the issue dated 13 June 2025, the current number-one single on the chart is " Manchild" by
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History

The charts were first broadcast on
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on 1 October 1962. Before this charts had been printed in the ''
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'' newspaper, but it is debated as to whether they are official or not. Up until 1972 the Irish Chart was based on telephone sales received from record retailers based on over the counter sales to the public. The compilers of the chart changed several times and in January 1972 the chart changed to one based on sales from manufacturers to retailers. From October 1975 to February 1977 the chart was compiled from votes from readers in the Evening Herald newspaper. There was a separate Irish and International artists chart for a time during this period. From 1977 the chart once again became based on sales from retailers to the public but during the early 1980s this again changed and was once more based on sales from manufacturers to retailers.
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broadcasts the top 30 of the chart every Friday night from 8pm to 10pm. In 1992, the singles chart became based on consumer sales after
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and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) granted a contract to Gallup, a market research company. Gallup installed
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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. Also in 1996, with the development of technology, EPOS systems were installed in multiple music retail stores. The EPOS systems allowed for the collection of more accurate sales information. Chart-Track collects data daily from major record stores such as
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, as well as over forty Independent retailers. In total, data from over four-hundred and ninety stores are collected each week. The singles chart is compiled over seven days and released every Friday at noon by the IRMA, while Midweek Charts are produced daily, but only released to IRMA members. It was announced that from 1 July 2006, downloads would be counted in the charts. They would also feature in their own chart in addition to being counted for the overall chart. Data was initially collected from
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, Wippit and Bleep.com. Although IRMA estimated the size of the download market to amount to only 14% of the total market in 2006, this has increased in more recent years. In 2014, the Irish charts first included music
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streaming data was included for the first time.


Chart achievements

:All information is from 1962 to the present and does not include charts printed in the ''Evening Herald'' newspaper.


First Irish artist to debut at number one

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with "Every Step of the Way" (1965)


Artists with the most number one hits

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Songs with the most weeks at number one

''Note: Songs denoted with an asterisk (*) spent non-consecutive weeks at number one''. Source:


Acts to occupy the top two simultaneously

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Artists with the most top fifty hits


See also

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Ireland Eurovision Song Contest entries discography This is a discography of the entries for the Eurovision Song Contest, featuring the highest chart placing attained on the Irish Singles Chart. Irish Singles Chart Chart positions sourced from 'Irish Charts Archive' (Only Top 30 entries can be ...
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List of artists who reached number one in Ireland This is an list of recording artists who have reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart. *All acts are listed alphabetically. *Solo artists are alphabetised by last name, Groups by group name excluding "A," "An" and "The.". *Each act's ...
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List of songs that reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart This is a list of number-one songs as recorded by '' IRMA''’s Top 50 Singles chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in Ireland. It is compiled by the ''IRMA'' from single sales. The lists below show the songs that have t ...
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List of Irish Singles Chart Christmas number ones In Ireland, Christmas number ones are singles that are top of the Irish Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls. The Irish Singles Chart was first published in 1962, and the first artist to top the chart at Christmas was Elvis Presl ...


Notes


References


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Current Irish Singles Chart (top 100 positions)Official Irish Singles Chart (top 50 positions)
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