How the global genre charts work
Seven slices of the Global 100, built from the tags on each track
ChartFM has seven global genre charts: Rock, Brasil, Urban, Asian, Pop, Alternative and Eletrônica. Each one shows a Top 50.
The first thing to understand is that none of them has a vote of its own. There is no rock chart you publish separately from your normal chart.
They are slices, not parallel charts
Genre charts come from exactly the same entries that form the Global 100: the weekly charts published by the community, on each person's main chart, down to position 100.
The calculation is the same too. The difference is that, before adding up the points, the site drops the tracks that do not belong to that chart's genre. Then it sums normally and cuts at fiftieth place.
That has a practical consequence: if your chart has five rock songs, those five enter the Top 50 Rock with the same points they are worth in the Global 100. You do not have to do anything beyond publishing your chart.
What decides a song's genre
Every track in the catalogue carries a list of genre tags. They are not typed in by whoever publishes the chart, they come from the catalogue metadata.
The decision rule is short:
- If the track has tags of its own, the track's tags apply.
- If the track has no tags of its own, the artist's tags apply.
- If neither the track nor the artist has tags, the song does not enter any genre chart.
Each chart has a list of accepted tags, and the match is exact. A track tagged shoegaze enters Alternative because shoegaze is on its list. A track tagged with a subgenre that is on no list stays out of all of them, even when anyone could classify it at a glance.
A song can sit in two charts
The tag lists overlap on purpose. Dream pop is in Pop and in Alternative. Electropop is in Pop and in Eletrônica.
This is not a bug. A record can be pop and alternative at the same time, and forcing a choice would only start an argument with no answer. When a track fits both, it scores in both, with the same points.
Week, all-time, songs and artists
Every genre chart has four views.
- The week's chart, which only looks at that week's charts.
- The all-time chart, which adds up every week since the first week of 2026.
- The same two by artist, adding up the points of each name's tracks.
The weekly one moves a lot and is where debuts show up. The all-time one moves slowly and is the better answer to what that genre actually played over the year.
The honest limit of this
A genre chart is only as good as the catalogue tags. A track with no tag does not enter. A track with a loose tag enters the wrong place. And genre is arguable by nature: each chart's tag list was assembled by hand and reflects a choice, not a truth.
If a song shows up in a chart where you think it does not belong, the reason is almost always its tag, not a decision made about that song.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I have to pick a genre for my chart?
- Not for the global genre charts. They look at each track's tag, one by one. The genres you set on your chart are there to describe it and help other people find you.
- Why does my favourite song appear in no genre chart?
- Most likely it has no tags in the catalogue and neither does its artist. With no tag, the filter has nothing to decide on.
- Do daily charts count towards this?
- No. Only the main chart feeds the global rankings, and the main one is always weekly.
