The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique (SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry. SNEP was established in 1922, and has 48 member companies.

SNEP's responsibilities include collecting and distributing royalty payments for broadcast and performance, preventing copyright infringement of its members' works (including music piracy), and sales certification of silver, gold, platinum and diamond records and videos, and also compiles 4 weekly official charts of France's top-selling music (singles, albums).

SNEP also compiles charts of France's top-selling music.

Since September 2002, official charts are as follows:

Criterion: The following guidelines are applied:

¹ All the singles recorded under one of his pseudonyms or as member of his bands are included

¹ Songs performed as duets and trios are included
² Songs performed within Brastisla Boys and Fatal Bazooka bands and as Alphonse Brown included

Albums

Notes^

While the source provided for changes in certification-levels does not mention the changes in Silver-award, Double-Gold-award, Double-Platinum-award, Triple-Platinum-award, SNEP has reduced the levels for those awards at the same time it reduced the levels for Gold-award, Platinum-award and Diamond-award.

National may refer to:

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