Hotdisc launched in 1999 and is the leading promotional company for country music in Europe. Our Hotdisc Top 20 Television Programme was on Sky Television for several years as well as on FreeView on the Country Music Entertainment TV Channel, and we currently produce a one hour monthly show featuring some brilliant current videos as well as some from the past.
The Hotdisc Top 40 chart is compiled from DJs and industry professionals’ ratings of songs currently being promoted on Hotdisc’s Promotional album. They are not airplay charts, as airplay charts cannot work in Europe because of the lack of 24 hour country stations.
The hundreds of country programmes on air which we service are likely to play a particular song only a limited amount of times in a short period, therefore rendering airplay charts insignificant.
We are delighted to be releasing a series of albums for streaming only featuring some of the most successful British and Irish tracks from Hotdisc over the last 20 years. They originally came out under the title “Best Of British & Irish Country” on a yearly basis, but we have now re-issued them under the new title “Best Of British & Irish Country – Ultimate Edition” and they will be issued in five volumes containing 500 tracks – 100 per volume – starting with Volumes 1 & 2 which are now released on Apple Music, Spotify and all good digital platforms; a brilliant showcase for homegrown talent; you can get your digital copies to own from our shop. Look out for Volume 3 coming in April.
The Hotdisc charts are put together weekly using ratings supplied by DJs who give scores to every song on Hotdisc. The totals are averaged out per week to give an accurate guide to the songs which are being championed by the industry.
The aim is to showcase the tracks which the industry professionals are flagging up as quality songs. This is very useful as it is free of politics, hype and rigging and done solely on merit! DJs don’t care if a song is on a small label or backed by a huge company. If it is good enough they will play it!
