The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish

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 music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association

Irish Recorded Music Association

Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:...

 and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track

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Chart-Track is a market research company that monitors music, videos and software sales in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark and was formed in 1996. In July 2008 GfK took a majority stake in the company....

. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically each day from retailers' EPOS

Point of sale

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systems and certain digital retailers. Currently all major record stores and over forty independents submit data for the charts, accounting for over 80% of the market, according to Chart-Track. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by the Irish Recorded Music Association on Friday at noon. Each chart is dated with the "week-ending" date of the previous Thursday (i.e. the day before issue).

It is currently released as the Top 100, however Chart-Track's records only record the Top 75 in the archives.