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.
Who’s popular in South Africa? A lot of information is available for many countries from Europe and America, but what about the main African market? One would instinctively expect hugely popular black artists from the decade to dominate, like Michael …
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It has been nearly 4 years since we try at ChartMasters to portray the global music market the best we can. A significant component of it is audio streaming that we value thanks to platforms like Spotify, Genie, AWA and …
Who’s popular in South Africa? A lot of information is available for many countries from Europe or America, but what about the main African market? The few bits of data which emerged relate to artists from the 80s onwards, with …
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Which artists were popular in Italy during the 70s? From the break-up of the Beatles to the domination of disco music, who did the best there? Today we review the top selling singles of the decade, year after year, in …
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After analysing the performance of foreign albums in the Mexican market during the 70s, it is time to give the singles market some time because, after all, this format used to have a bigger market in terms of total units …
Going through Mexico’s top foreign singles sellers of the 70s Read more »
Every year China seems to be climbing several positions on IFPI’s top music market’s ranking and the growth doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. In just a few years we could see this country overtake markets like the …
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Do you have any idea of what was popular in Mexico during the 80s? Which international music star struck them the most? Was Thriller as huge there as it was everywhere? Were other megastars like Madonna, Phil Collins or Prince equally …
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Map of the Soul: Persona, the new bomb from K-Pop masters BTS, records an absolutely impressive first week on Spotify at 98 million streams with a mere 7 songs. How does that compete against the top performers ever?
While the eyes of the many music industry observers are focused on the Chinese and Latin American markets development, the real action now is actually happening in India. Streaming platforms already count there with more than 150 million active users. …
Do you have any idea of what was popular in Mexico during the 70s? Which international music star struck them the most? Was it Simon & Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, or Elton John? Where they crazy about the former Beatles, or …
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