The UK classical chart is a commercial monitoring and marketing device used by the UK music industry to measure its effectiveness in promoting and selling albums, nominally in the field of classical music. Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music The chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company. The Official UK Charts Company ( OCC) previously called the Chart Information Network ( CIN) compiles various "official" UK record charts The measurements are made by collating the returns of sales from a number of well known music stores (high street and online stores) on a regular basis, and this enables a ranking to be established. Due to the dominance of the compilation market, the chart is split into two elements: The Classical Artist Chart and the Classical Compilation Chart. A compilation album is an Album ( Music or Spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple Recording artists, often culled from a variety of However, most classical artist album sales in the UK are from crossover artists. Crossover is a term applied to Musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the Record charts which track differing musical tastes or genres For an album to be classified as classical in the charts, it has to have 60% of the playing time dedicated to “classical or traditional music”.
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