Ö3 Austria Top 40 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it. The show airs Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann. The show has had other names and other presenters, as detailed below.

The weekly number-ones are released by Musikmarkt and go TV.

The first number-one single was "Das ist die Frage aller Fragen" by Cliff Richard. The most successful single is "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John. The most successful Austrian single is "Anton aus Tirol" by DJ Ötzi. The artists with the most number-one hits since 1980 are Rainhard Fendrich and Christina Stürmer.

Between 1968 and 2007, the names of the show were Disc Parade, Die Großen 10 von Ö3, Pop Shop, Hit wähl mit, Die Großen 10, Ö3 Top-30 and Ö3 Austria Top 40.

• Ernst Grissemann
• Rudi Klausnitzer

• Rudi Klausnitzer
• Hans Leitinger

• Hans Leitinger

• Hans Leitinger
• Udo Huber

• Udo Huber

• Udo Huber

• Udo Huber
• Martina Kaiser
• Matthias Euler-Rolle
• Gustav Götz

• Official Austrian singles chart
• Ö3 Austria Top 75Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Austrian chart archive