Record Mirror was a
British weekly music newspaper between 1954 and 1991 for pop fans and record collectors. Launched two years after the
NME, it never attained the circulation of its rival. The first
UK album chart was published in
Record Mirror in 1956, and during the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the official
UK singles and UK albums charts used by the BBC for
Radio 1 and
Top of the Pops, as well as the US
Billboard charts.