Official North Bridge Charts

The Official North Bridge Charts (abbr. ONBC) is a music chart and magazine based in North Bridge. The company is currently owned by the Official Charts Company (OCC). The company was founded in 1971, with the first songs to ever chart being John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads, Bill Withers’ Ain’t No Sunshine, Ike & Tina Turner’s Proud Mary, and many others. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2011, but was purchased by the Official Charts Company for £225 million. The chart currently has 200 chart positions.

ONBC Music Awards
Main article: ONBC Music Awards

The NBCs era (1975-1981)
In 1975, after the first few years of ONBC Magazine's success, the company would host their own formal music awards ceremony, The NBCs (short for The North Bridge Charters). The ceremony is currently hosted in Raco, North Bridge, and during its first years, it originally had only 5 categories: #1 Album, #1 Single, #1 New Artist, #1 Record, and #1 Airplay. These categories would expand in the later years. The first song to win the #1 Single would be Baby Do You Wanna Bump by Boney M.

In 1981, American television network, NBC threatened to sue ONBC for the use of their name in the award ceremony's original name. After the 1981 NBCs, the company had decided to change the name from The NBCs, to what is now known today as, the ONBC Music Awards.

Winners and nominees (1975-present)
See article: List of ONBC Music Awards winners and nominees