Chart-Track is a market research

Market research

Market research is any organized effort to gather information about markets or customers. It is a very important component of business strategy...

 company that monitors music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, video

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

s and software

Computer software

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

 sales in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 and Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 and was formed in 1996. In July 2008 GfK took a majority stake in the company.

The company produces the Official Irish Music Charts and collects data daily from major and independent record stores in Ireland on behalf of the Irish Recorded Music Association

Irish Recorded Music Association

Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:...

. In the UK the company produces the Official UK Software Charts on behalf of ELSPA and the Official Mobile game

Mobile game

A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet computer or portable media player. This does not include games played on handheld video game systems such as Nintendo DS or PlayStation Portable....

 Charts. In Denmark the company produces the Official Danish Software Charts on behalf of Multi Medie Foreningen (the Trade Body for the Danish Software industry).

Key report services include:
UK Leisure Software, Republic of Ireland Leisure Software, European Leisure Software (in conjunction with GfK

GfK

The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group, and IMS Health...

), UK Hardware and Peripherals, Republic of Ireland Music and Video, Denmark Leisure Software, UK Mobile Games

External links

• Chart-Track.co.uk – official website.