chartbustern.
/ˈtʃɑːtˌbʌstə/, U.S. /ˈtʃɑrtˌbəstər/ colloquial.
1. A best-selling record; a hit. Also in extended use. Cf. chart n. 3c.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record
pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1965 Times 22 Oct. 3/6 (television listing) The chartbusters.
1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 5/1 It was the updated ‘dozens’..that provided the Diddler with his last national chartbuster in 1959.
1987 Automotive Industries (Nexis) Dec. 34 The car just hasn't been the chart-buster the company needed it to be.
1999 New Straits Times (Malaysia) 19 Oct. (Life & Times section) 20/1 They deliver a repertoire of evergreen favourites as well as current chartbusters.
2. A best-selling recording artist. Also in extended use.
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1969 Sunday Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 28 Dec. c4 They're chart busters with singles like ‘You Made Me So Very Happy’.
1987 Sports Illustr. 21 Sept. 80 Sports books by literary heavyweights like Norman Mailer, or guaranteed chart busters like James Michener.
2000 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 140/1 Like Elvis Presley, Darin wasn't satisfied being a chartbuster.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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