when kent was a youth australia had no nationwide chart system for singles or albums and kent kept his own tally of the positions provided by sydney radio stations in  radio station ue provided the first give-away charts in record stores with the first national charts compiled for go-set by rock journalist ed nimmervoll appearing in october  kent worked for record companies emi and polygram and avidly collected record charts as a hobby for  months kent researched australian music charts and developed a ranking system based on radio station charts from around the country from may  he assembled the kent music report kents purposes were to provide the australian music industry with information on singles and albums and to chronicle the history of music tastes the kent music report was sold commercially from july  and became the sole nationwide chart after go-set folded in august