It was a sister publication to the British music magazine Music Week which itself only published the Top 75 UK singles and albums charts.
Charts Plus was edited by Graham Walker and Tony Brown and was established in May 1991, shortly after the demise of Record Mirror.
[1][2][3][4] Subscription to Charts Plus would offer the following information in the newsletter:[1] In September 1992, Spotlight, publishers of Music Week, started Hit Music as a cheaper alternative to Charts Plus.
[6] In November 1994, Charts Plus ceased publication and Hit Music then began publishing the (uncompressed) Top 200 singles and Top 200 albums charts from issue no.
[5] However, by autumn 2001, a successor publication to Hit Music was founded, independent of Music Week, in order to publish the British Top 200 charts: ChartsPlus (not to be confused with the 1990s publication of the same name).