| Categories | Music, show business |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founder | Isidore Green |
| First issue | 17 June 1954 |
| Final issue | 6 April 1991 |
| Company | United Newspapers |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0144-5804 |
| OCLC | 6459252 |
Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors. Launched two years after New Musical Express, it never attained the circulation of its rival. The first UK album chart was published in Record Mirror in 1956, and during the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the official UK singles and UK albums charts used by the BBC for Radio 1 and Top of the Pops, as well as the USA's Billboard charts.
The title ceased to be a stand-alone publication in April 1991 when United Newspapers closed or sold most of their consumer magazines, including Record Mirror and its sister music magazine Sounds, to concentrate on trade papers like Music Week. In 2010, Giovanni di Stefano bought the name Record Mirror and relaunched it as an online music gossip website in 2011. The website became inactive in 2013 following di Stefano's jailing for fraud.[1][2]