Music industry – One step closer to being accurate
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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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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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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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.
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. …
UK pure singles sales revealed Read more »
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 …
BTS dominance is the only unflawed bit of IFPI annual list Read more »
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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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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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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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 …
Best selling records and artists in the USSR and Russia Read more »