The Official Charts & Hits: 2023 annual is out now

The Official Charts Company’s new annual charts book, The Official Charts & Hits: 2023, is published this week.

The annual, which features every Official Singles Chart and Official Albums Chart Top 75, plus Top 20 Official Compilations Chart for the year, also chronicles all of the artists who reached the Official Charts, including a rundown of biographies, awards and honours.

The Official Charts & Hits: 2023 is the latest publication in our partnership with chart archivist Graham Betts and is the latest update of the growing collection of more than 20 volumes detailing the Official Charts from 1952 onwards.

Order the Official Charts & Hits 2023 via Amazon here (affiliate link)

Encapsulating almost 300 pages of chart history, the latest volume reflects on a year of huge hits from Taylor Swift, Dave & Central C, Miley Cyrus, plus the return of chart icons The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Madness and many others, as well as the launch of Raye’s solo career, which set her on the path towards this month’s record-breaking Brit Awards performance.

Official Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot says, “It is with great pride that we unveil our fourth annual, the latest instalment of a collection which is now firmly established as a chart expert’s must-have, go-to reference library. It is an essential guide to the UK’s Official chart hits in what was another landmark year for British music and culture.”

The book is priced at £20 and is produced as print on demand and available via Amazon – alongside over 20 decade-specific books. A full outline of all of the books available, with links to buy them, is available here.