HR Top 40

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HR Top 40
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FoundedJanuary 2013 (2013-01)
FounderCroatian Music Institute
Headquarters Croatia
Website www.top-lista.hr/www/

The HR Top 40 are the main Croatian domestic singles airplay chart, issued weekly by the Croatian Music Institute (Institut Hrvatske Glazbe) and the Croatian Phonographic Association (Hrvatska Diskografska Udruga) through Top lista. The charts are a record of the most played domestic songs in various genres in Croatia. HR Top 40 became the official Croatian airplay chart in December 2012.

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History

The chart launched on 24 January 2013 with the data collected from the 14th of January to the 20th of January being published in the first issue of the chart. [1] Originally, the data from 80 radio stations was collected to form a list of the 40 most played domestic songs in Croatia. [2] The airplay chart contained data generated by the Playkontrol system according to any song played during the period starting the previous Monday at time 00:00:00 and ending Sunday night at 23:59:59. [3] Once a week, every Monday, the chart was published via the Croatian Music Institute's (IHG) official web page. [3] The first number song was "Neopisivo" by Nina Badrić. [4] Since July 2015 the chart is being is being published once a week, every Monday, through its official website. [5] Two days prior, every Saturday, the chart is also being aired on its own show on the television channel RTL 2. [6] Since 2015 the data from more than 140 radio stations across the country is being collected to form the chart. [7] In July 2015 6 regional charts started being published on a weekly basis with the main chart. [8]

Compilation

There are five criteria points which are taken into consideration when forming the chart: [6]

Records

Current recorders of the chart are Vatra with song "Tango", which spent 25 consecutive weeks at number one, [9] while Massimo Savić's song "Mali krug velikih ljudi" holds the record for most non-consecutive weeks at number one with a total of 30 weeks. [10] Psihomodo Pop's "Donna" was the first song to which spend the maximum of 52 consecutive weeks on the chart. [11] Savić's "Mali krug velikih ljudi" was the first song to spend a total of 30 weeks atop the chart and holds the record for most weeks at number one. [12] Kornelija Petak was the youngest person to ever chart on the HR Top 40 chart, at the time when "Ja sam takva kava sam" debuted she was only 16 years old. [13] Igor Delač holds the record for most consecutive number one singles; from Budan in 2018 to his latest single "Ne zaboravi" in 2022, a total of eight singles reached the top spot. [14]

Song of the Year

Since 2014 at the end of the calendar year an award to the artist(s) of the most played song is being given out . [15]

YearTitleArtist(s)Ref.
2014"Tango" Vatra [16]
2015"Jedan dan ljubavi" Massimo Savić [17]
2016"Zaljubila sam se"Detour [18]
2017"Sve u meni se budi" Damir Kedžo & Zsa Zsa [19]
2018"Ako te pitaju" Petar Grašo [20]
2019"Rekao si" Nina Badrić [21]
2020"Mali krug velikih ljudi"Massimo Savić [22]
2021"Kiša (Z'naab)" Gibonni [23]
2022"Trebaš li me" Eni Jurišić & Matija Cvek [24]

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