Music industry – One step closer to being accurate
On April 28, 2003, a store called iTunes opened. Ultimately, it severely damaged the music industry, but it also granted milions of sales for many global hits. Now that this market is in its last breath, we review the very …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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Since the summer of 2016 dozens of artists have been analyzed using the CSPC method. Some of them destroyed the competition during a short time thanks to only one album, while others have proven longevity through the years. In the …
Most successful artists by decade Read more »
So, are you ready to see a countdown of the best selling artists of the 2010s? A decade ago, the music industry was completely different. We still had record players at home, downloads was the big thing, Adele and Drake …
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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 …
Going through South Africa’s top foreign albums sellers of the 80s Read more »
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 …
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