ChartAttack

Chart

Editor	unknown
Categories	Music
Frequency	10/year
Publisher	andPOP
First issue	1991
Country	Canada
Language	English
Website	chartattack.com
ISSN	1198-7235

ChartAttack is a Canadian online music publication. Formerly a monthly print magazine called Chart, which was published from 1991 to 2009, the web version continues operation.^[1]

Launched in 1991 as National Chart, the magazine was started by York University students Edward Skira and Nada Laskovski as a tipsheet and airplay chart for campus radio stations in Canada.^[2][3] The magazine soon grew to include interviews, CD reviews and other features. National Chart was considered an internal publication for the National Campus and Community Radio Association, Canada's association of campus radio stations, and was not available as a newsstand title.

When Skira and Laskovski graduated, they incorporated Chart as an independent magazine, and began to pursue national newsstand distribution. Although it is no longer an NCRA publication, many campus radio stations continue to file airplay reports for the magazine's Top 50 chart.

The magazine's primary focus was Canadian alternative rock and indie rock, although they profiled important international acts, and rap and pop music acts as well.

The website briefly suspended publication in summer 2011, but its acquisition by andPOP, a Canadian entertainment news website, was announced on November 1, 2011.^[4]

Reader polls

In 1996, 2000 and 2005, the magazine conducted polls of readers, musicians and music industry professionals to determine the 50 best Canadian albums and songs of all time. There were 25 albums and 18 songs which ranked in the top 50 in all three polls.

Top 10 albums

Rank	1996	2000	2005
1	Sloan, Twice Removed	Joni Mitchell, Blue	Sloan, Twice Removed
2	Neil Young, Harvest	Neil Young, Harvest	Neil Young, Harvest
3	Joni Mitchell, Blue	Sloan, Twice Removed	Joni Mitchell, Blue
4	The Tragically Hip, Up to Here	Rheostatics, Whale Music	Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It in People
5	Rheostatics, Whale Music	Rheostatics, Melville	Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
6	The Tragically Hip, Fully Completely	The Lowest of the Low, Shakespeare My Butt	The Weakerthans, Left and Leaving
7	Neil Young, After the Gold Rush	Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy	The Lowest of the Low, Shakespeare My Butt
8	The Band, Music from Big Pink	Rush, Moving Pictures	The Tragically Hip, Fully Completely
9	Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Session	Sloan, One Chord to Another	The Band, The Band
10	The Lowest of the Low, Shakespeare My Butt	The Tragically Hip, Fully Completely	Rheostatics, Whale Music
11 - 50	1996 poll results	2000 poll results

Top 10 songs

Rank	1996	2000	2005
1	The Demics, "New York City"	The Guess Who, "American Woman"	The Guess Who, "American Woman"
2	Sloan, "Underwhelmed"	Sloan, "Underwhelmed"	Sloan, "Underwhelmed"
3	The Guess Who, "American Woman"	Gordon Lightfoot, "If You Could Read My Mind"	Neil Young, "The Needle and the Damage Done"
4	The Pursuit of Happiness, "I'm An Adult Now"	Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69"	Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
5	Martha and the Muffins, "Echo Beach"	Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"	Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69"
6	Bachman–Turner Overdrive, "Takin' Care of Business"	The Pursuit of Happiness, "I'm An Adult Now"	Rush, "Tom Sawyer"
7	Blue Rodeo, "Try"	The Tragically Hip, "New Orleans Is Sinking"	The Band, "The Weight"
8	Treble Charger, "Red"	The Diodes, "Tired of Waking Up Tired"	Neil Young, "Cortez the Killer"
9	Rush, "Tom Sawyer"	The Demics, "New York City"	Neil Young, "Heart of Gold"
10	Slow, "Have Not Been the Same"	Neil Young, "Cinnamon Girl"	Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"
11-50	1996 poll results	2000 poll results

References

Music of Canada portal

1. ^ Chart goes paperless, eye weekly, January 15, 2009.
2. ^ (June 3, 2000). "Charting a success story: From eight-page newsletter to 70-page glossy, Chart has grown along with the decade's music", Toronto Star, p. M2.
3. ^ Flynn, Andrew (May 14, 2000). "Chart magazine makes it 10: Little publication grew strong by focussing on Canuck music", Canadian Press. Reprinted in The Daily News, p. 29.
4. ^ "Video Saves the Radio Star - Online Video Poised to Revive Indie Music Site". MediaCaster, November 1, 2011.

External links

• Chart
• Thow, Megan (Spring 2002). "Critical Miss". Ryerson Review of Journalism. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927021800/http://www.rrj.ca/issue/2002/spring/369/. Retrieved 2007-09-15.