Music industry – One step closer to being accurate
Welcome to ChartMasters’ insights section! Here we discuss industry trends, local markets, and surprising data points. Let us go deeper in understanding the music industry.
Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, BTS… these have been some of the biggest artists of the year, but who are YouTube most streamed artists of 2022? While YouTube doesn’t bring in as much money to the music industry as …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
It has been 5 years since ChartMasters.org is online. It started with a large string of articles about the best selling albums of all-time in France, articles which served to created the comprehensive top sellers list. Several years later, we …
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 …
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 »