It’s another significant leap for jukebox manufacturer NSM Music which launched its new partnership agreement with the Official Charts Company at ACOS this week. As part of the ground-breaking agreement, starting as soon as this month the UK’s official Singles Chart will appear on thousands of NSM jukeboxes the length and breadth of the UK, joining the BBC as the home of top chart hits.
The UK’s official music and film chart compiler the Official Charts Company has struck a ground-breaking deal with leading jukebox company NSM Music.
The strategic partnership will see the UK’s industry-recognised Official Singles Chart, as heard on BBC Radio 1, displayed on thousands of jukeboxes nationwide, with the roll-out starting this month.
Each week’s chart will go live on the boxes every Friday evening, supported by a video countdown of The Official Chart Top 10, along with Number 1 Award pictures and video messages from the newly-crowned Number 1 artists. This year alone has seen a hugely diverse mix of artists topping the Official Singles and Albums Charts, from Taylor Swift to Chase & Status and Stormzy, Sabrina Carpenter, Liam Gallagher, Charli XCX and many more.
NSM Music’s General Manager, Martin Agabeg said: “We are extremely excited about our new partnership with the Official Charts Company, this collaboration of two prestigious brands is a natural fit and it shows our continued commitment and investment to offering the best possible service to our valued customers”.
NSM’s Sales Manager Alex Kirby was equally enthused: “It is a real honour to be in partnership with such an iconic British institution, everybody knows the Official Charts Company, and back in the day “Top of The Pops”. We are extremely excited that every NSM jukebox manufactured on the Windows 10 platform will automatically get the Official Charts Top 40 as part of their standard music subscription. It is extremely important to us that we not only manufacturer the best possible product for the marketplace but will also create the very best customer experience.”
For the Official Charts Company, the allure of reaching thousands of venues around the country was certainly appealing. Chief executive Martin Talbot noted: “We are absolutely delighted to be forging this new partnership with NSM. As a company, they have an historic legacy as suppliers of jukeboxes for the past seven decades, but they have also been among the leaders in evolving into the digital space in recent years.
“We have been incredibly impressed by their plans for the future, and are delighted that we will be on that journey with them. A pub isn’t a pub without music, and The Official Chart is the soundtrack to our times here in Britain we are thrilled to be partnering with NSM to ensure that the Official Singles Chart is a central part of the in-pub experience across the UK.”
The Official Charts Company provides the UK’s only official music and video charts (as seen at OfficialCharts.com) including among its licence partners BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, Music Week, Malachite Group, Folk Expo, Greatest Hits Radio and Amazon, among others, while also working closely with its stakeholders ERA and the BPI, as well as its key partners at the British Association of Screen Entertainment (BASE).
