Greek Alternative Charts

The GREEK ALTERNATIVE CHARTS - GAC, hosted by postwave.gr, are Greece's first official charts for the music range "alternative". They reflect sales and club airplay for a variety of music styles in this range, from indie (music) pop/rock, gothic, new wave, alternative rock , post punkand dance-punk to synthpop, ebm, electro, industrial, noise and nu metal.You can see anything from And One, Combichrist, Suicide Commando and Noisuf-X to Muse (band), the Killers, Cansei de Ser Sexy, IAMX featuring on GAC.

They also tend to reflect new currents and music trends according to the data submitted from DJs of the most important Greek clubs and sales of the alternative experts record stores. At the time being, they combine info from 20 DJs, 14 different clubs, 8 record stores and the official Greek charts from IFPI. These numbers will hopefully grow in the near future.

GAC are listed every two weeks, consisting of a top20 album-chart and a top10 singles-chart.

How they are compiled:Every second week, each DJ sends a top 10 albums-list and a top 5 singles-list based on personal valuation of people's reaction on the songs he played the last 15 days.On the other hand, record dealers submit information only for album sales, since singles in the alternative market are minimum and play a subordinated role.

An album that's on the top of a list gets 10 points, on the second place 9 points, etc...All this data is transferred manually to computer and with the help of an optimized software, the computer does all the necessary calculation steps to set the charts.An album or a single can stay on the charts for a maximum 20 weeks. Afterwards it drops from the charts and there's no way for a re-entry.

External links

[http://www.postwave.gr/gac GAC]

[http://www.postwave.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=29 more info on GAC]

[http://www.postwave.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=219&Itemid=28 GAC contributors]

[http://ta-nea.dolnet.gr/print_article.php?e=A&f=18691&m=P20&aa=2 stub/reference in Greek newspaper "Ta Nea"]