Record Mirror was owned by the Billboard Group, so doubtless its US charts would have been Billboard's.
This seems a good opportunity to mention the recent passing of Peter Jones, editor of RM during the mid 1960s. Here's a quote from his Billboard obituary:
"Jones was also an early champion of the Tamla Motown sound long before it took off in the U.K. John Schroeder, who secured the British rights to early Motown releases before the label launched in its own right, later remembered: “I had one ally, Peter Jones at Record Mirror. [He was] the only one who supported the Motown material.”"
The full obit is at
http://www.billboard.com/articles/bu...-billboard-and . Jones is also noteworthy for having written [[under different pen names) the first biographies of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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