The founding editors were Graham Walker and Tony Brown.

Originally it ran parallel to Music Week′s other chart newsletter Charts Plus which was also edited by Graham Walker and Tony Brown and which had been established in May 1991, shortly after the demise of Record Mirror.

211 (November 2, 1996) the Artist Albums chart extended to a Top 200.

Top 100 Airplay chart was dropped from issue 294 (June 20, 1998).

[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 mentioned above).