GfK Entertainment charts

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GfK Entertainment
Founded24 January 1991; 33 years ago (1991-01-24)
HeadquartersBaden-Baden, Germany
Key people
  • Mathias Giloth
  • Wolfgang Wanders[1]
ServicesMarket research, Service Provider of Media Monitoring, Analysis and Evaluation
Websitewww.gfk-entertainment.com/produkte/musik/charts.html Edit this at Wikidata

The GfK Entertainment charts are the official charts for music, home video, and video games in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie. GfK Entertainment is the provider of weekly Top 100 single and album charts, as well as various other chart formats for genres like compilations, jazz, classical music, schlager, hip hop, dance, comedy, and music videos.[2] Following a lawsuit in March 2014 by Media Control AG, Media Control GfK International had to change its name.[3]

Dissemination of the charts is conducted by various media outlets, some of which include MTV music channel, and the Swiss charts website.[4][5] Other entities that present the charts are MusicLoad and Mix 1, both of which are online associations that post almost all the charts published by GfK Entertainment on a weekly basis.[6][7] Furthermore, GfK Entertainment also runs a dedicated website providing chart-related news and access to most of the charts.[8]

  1. ^ "Impressum" (in German). GfK Entertainment GmbH. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Systembeschreibung der offiziellen Charts" [System Description of the Official Charts] (PDF) (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. 11 January 2017.
  3. ^ "GfK Entertainment: GfK darf Namen nicht mehr benutzen" [GfK Entertainment: GfK must no longer use name] (in German). Media Control GmbH. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  4. ^ "VIVA: Charts" (in German). VIVA. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  5. ^ "germancharts.com" (in German). hitparade.ch. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Musicload" (in German). musicload.de. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Mix 1" (in German). mix1.de. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  8. ^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 11 January 2017.