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Category: Industry

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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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.

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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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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The most streamed International artists in the MENA region

By Al Posted on April 15, 2020 27 Comments

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. …

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7 by BTS debuts with over 5 million sales

By MJD Posted on March 2, 2020 17 Comments

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.

Most streamed international hits in India

By MJD Posted on December 19, 2019 7 Comments
Most streamed international hits in India

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 …

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Are Apple Music streams underestimated?

By MJD Posted on September 30, 2019 15 Comments

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 …

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Looking at China’s most popular international artists

By Al Posted on June 30, 2019 95 Comments

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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The dark horse India is ready to strike

By Al Posted on April 13, 2019 23 Comments

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. …

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