Welcome to World Charts

World Charts is the company responsible for the weekly production and publication of the Internet Entertainment Charts. The Word Charts team consists of a few volunteers, who like the entertainment business, and love making charts.
	Work on the Internet Charts started on January 1, 1993, when Jurgen Appelo introduced the Internet PC Games Top 100. This list was the logical answer to many questions in Usenet computer games newsgroups. People asked each other about their favourite games, new releases, bad titles to avoid, etc. Jurgen figured he could answer all these questions by introducing a weekly list of the most popular games in the world.
Right from the start the Internet PC Games Top 100 had several thousands of readers, of which a couple of hundred joined in to become active voters. People sent email with their personal favourite titles, from which a Top 100 chart was generated every week.
	Within a couple of years, the Internet PC Games Top 100 grew to become the most respected independent popularity poll for pc games, widely supported by the computer games industry.
		The continued success of the Internet PC Games Top 100 made Jurgen assume that the same could be done for other entertainment products. New lists were introduced in 1996 for movies, albums, singles and video games.
The one-man enterprise expanded in 1996 into a multi-person World Charts team, where several different people became responsible for editorials and promotion.
	At this time, the completely new World Charts 4.0 engine is being developed with Borland Delphi 2.0 under Windows NT. It has a huge amount of features, designed and created from four years of on-line chart-making experience. The new engine, as well as the specifications, are expected to be ready somewhere in 1997. It will result in many new features on the website, even more complex and reliable compilation algorithms, and more useful and flexible possibilities for voters, readers and publishers.