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.
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 »
The query “monthly listeners” spotify, with the double quotes, gives you over 2 million results on Google, the perfect illustration of a statistic that is more and more popular. Yet, it’s irrelevant. Get to know why so and why the …
Why Spotify’s Monthly Listeners stat is irrelevant Read more »
The MENA region (short for Middle East and North Africa) has been a place of mystery for very long with no official charts and very few certifications ever coming out. This resulted in very little awareness of sales happening there. …
The most streamed International artists in the MENA region Read more »
Korean music behemoth BTS continue to make history. The boy band from Seoul sold over 5 million units with their new effort Map of the Soul: 7. This is the second fastest selling album of all-time.
After going through the most streamed international songs in India, we want to get a larger view by looking at the top artists. The likes Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, BTS, Ariana Grande all seem very strong, …
Not too long ago, we mentioned India as a dark horse to become a monster music market. It is really happening. Now, 8 months later, the 3 largest local platforms are displaying streaming counts of all songs and figures are …
