African and Middle Eastern Charts Needed

[myuuzik]

A brief look at your featured charts shows that now Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and Asia (China, India, Japan, Taiwan) are more or else well catered for.

The only two glaring areas with very unique music scenes that still do not have charts whatsoever featured on your site:
-The African Continent
-The Middle East / The Arab World

Surely you should try your best to have at least one representative country chart from each of these two areas.

For Africa, possibly the South African chart would be the most accessible. For Middle East / Arab World, possibly charts from Lebanon or Egypt.

[MarkG]

It's extremely difficult to find sources on sales figures on these places....

[NightyGeko.it]

I know that there are only airplay charts from few radios from Lebanon, Georgia, UAE, Israel and in Africa only 3 radios have an airplay chart in South Africa.. too few to have a chart that can be consider valid to represent a full country.

[myuuzik]

I don't know what is the policy of our "Top 40 Charts" website? Don't they include any "airplay" charts whatsoever? Are all charts we have based on shere numbers?

What can be done though to cover these unrepresented countries, is to run a parallel "unofficial" area in the website where airplay does count without messing with the other more "official" charts but at least gives us an idea of what music lovers listen in these countries...

[NightyGeko.it]

The Charts from Brazil, Chile, China, India, Portugal, Ukraine, Russia and USA are airplay charts... the other are sales charts.
Some months ago in another topic another user has made a similar question and the moderators said that the airplay charts to be representative of a country should be made considering many radios... for countries from Africa or Middle East there are few radios (online) to consider... not enough to made a realistic "naional airplay chart".

To be honest as I've told before there are official charts made by IFPI for Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and recently I've found the official sales chart from South Korea too (RIAK)... but probably these markets are still considered too small to be added here...

Some months ago the team of Top40Charts said that they are working on new genres charts and on the Mexican chart.

[rosie doorn]

LMAO THE HECK DO YOU HAVE MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST, YEAH AFRICA THERE IS, WITH THE BANGING DRUMS FROM ANIMAL SKIN, BUT MIDDLE EAST? IS THIS A JOKE?? NO. WE DONT WANNA HEAR BOMBING EFFECTS IN EVERY SONGS THEY PLAY AND SECRET MESSAGES RECORDINGS BACKWARDS OF "ISLAM WILL RISE AND DEATH TO THE WEST" lol