However, "officlal" charts were less important in the 1960s, with many commercial radio stations in the US and elsewhere (including the UK pirates Radio London[1] and Radio Caroline[2]) having charts of their own, and Peel may also have had access to the charts of the British music weeklies Melody Maker and Record Mirror. Most of the records in his Top Tens would be familiar to pop radio listeners in 1966, and, especially in the second half of the year, most of them are British - although there are also some US artists who had successes in both the UK national charts and those of the pirate radio stations, such as Herb Alpert, Nancy Sinatra, Lou Christie, Otis Redding and Bob Lind.