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| Company type | Music retailer |
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| Headquarters | Taiwan,Zhongzheng District, South Chongqing Road 1-duan 15, 9F |
| Products | Audio-visual |
| Website | Company website (Chinese) |
G-Music Limited is a company built in 2002 byRose Records andTachung Records,[1] the largest local music retails and wholesale chains in Taiwan. The physical retail arms have been kept separate, mainly for different customer bases and brand identity, but the e-retailing, wholesale and distributor business is unified asRose Tachung Records.
The two chains originally teamed up to create Taiwan's popular music ranking, theG-Music Chart (Chinese: 風雲榜fēngyúnbǎng).[2][3] The chains had around 60 locations in 2002.[4] Tachung's network includes Taiwan's only remaining specialist classical CD store, opposite the Taipei YMCA on Hsu Chang St.[5] G-Music Chart remains the most popular record chart in Taiwan.[6][7][8][9]
The G-Music Chart was first officially published on July 7, 2005, and compiled the top physically sold CD releases in Taiwan (including both albums and physically released singles). Only the top 20 positions are published, and instead of sales, a percentage ranking is listed next to each release. For example, in the 52nd week of 2006,Born to Love, ranked at number one, sold 25.46% of the CDs sold in Taiwan that week. G-Music's main chart,Combo Chart (Chinese: 綜合榜zònghé bǎng), ranks all music sales, regardless of language, country of origin or genre. The Combo Chart was discontinued in early 2015.
In addition to the main chart, there are eight sub-charts, and one defunct chart. All charts feature a percentage ranking, which is the percentage sold for each subcategory. All charts began on the same day as the Combo Chart, July 7, 2005. The currently operating sub-charts are:
In addition to these, a Taiwanese singles chart called theTop Chinese Chart (Chinese: 百事榜Bǎishì bǎng, "Pepsi Chart"), also called the "Mengniu Dairy Chart" (蒙牛榜Méngniú bǎng), was created at the start of 2006. It ranked the top songs in two different top 20 charts: one forMainland China (内地榜單Nèidì bǎngdān) and one combiningHong Kong and Taiwan (港臺榜單Gǎng-tái bǎngdān). The chart was made defunct in September 2008.
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