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Collections madness #1: France

By MJD Posted on March 12, 2022 11 Comments
Collections madness #1: France

What if I tell you that there are 3 billion album sales lost in the nature? Sales that have been ignored by both charts and certifications. These sales bring millions of units to many artists. How is this possible, and …

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YouTube Most Streamed Artists of 2021

By Al Posted on January 5, 2022 26 Comments
YouTube Most Streamed Artists of 2021

Drake, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo… these have been some of the biggest artists of the year, but who are YouTube most streamed artists of 2021? While YouTube doesn’t bring in as much money to the music …

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Spotify’s All Time Top Album Debuts

By Al Posted on September 13, 2021 14 Comments
Spotify’s All Time Top Album Debuts

As you can expect, the likes Drake and Ariana Grande recorded several of the top album debuts on Spotify, but many more are performing incredibly well. In fact, so far as many as 72 releases have broken the 100 million …

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The hidden sales of Eastern Europe during the Cold War

By Al Posted on August 4, 2021 14 Comments

Did people under the iron curtain buy western music? What are flexi-discs and postcard-discs? And what sales records exist? We’ve dug into archive material and pictures to shed a light on some of the most mysterious, yet sizable records sales.

UK pure singles sales revealed

By MJD Posted on July 19, 2021 2 Comments

Way back in March 2012, Billboard made a huge step forward, introducing streams into the Hot 100. Less than a decade later, streaming got so dominant in the music industry that it is now difficult to identify pure sales data. …

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BTS dominance is the only unflawed bit of IFPI annual list

By MJD Posted on March 13, 2021 31 Comments
BTS dominance is the only unflawed bit of IFPI annual list

As they have been doing since 2001, the IFPI published this week the top selling albums of the year. Unlike the previous edition, when they got the #1 wrong, this time they properly reported the global domination of Korean superstars …

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Brazil best sellers since 2003

By MJD Posted on February 5, 2021 31 Comments
Brazil best sellers since 2003

This week, we injected over 17,000 shipment codes from Brazil amounting to 162 million sales to our Receipts Database. As it happens, they reflect perfectly album sales in the country since their introduction in 2003. So let’s dig into them …

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YouTube’s Most Streamed Artists of 2020

By Al Posted on January 2, 2021 23 Comments
YouTube’s Most Streamed Artists of 2020

While YouTube doesn’t bring in as much money to the music industry as say Spotify or Apple Music, is it a major player nonetheless, and especially in certain markets. A very diverse platform, artists from all around the world feature …

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The biggest streaming debuts through the world

By Al Posted on December 7, 2020 17 Comments
The biggest streaming debuts through the world

Do you like to know the truth? So do I. Nowadays, it seems that every week we hear about broken streaming records. Is that real information or brainwashing? We will start adressing this question by looking at the biggest streaming …

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Best selling records and artists in the USSR and Russia

By Al Posted on July 14, 2020 53 Comments

If you go through various online sites covering music sales, you’ll find close to no information at all about the best selling artists in the USSR and Russia. A black box up to this day, we digged through the data …

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