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Category: Understanding

Understanding: RIAA / Label audits – The case of Michael Jackson

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on September 13, 2017 17 Comments

It’s time for a little Thriller. Michael Jackson‘s Thriller. Among the big mysteries of charts and sales the most fundamental one is the true understanding of certifications. What better to

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Understanding: Billboard BB200 vs US Album Sales

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on September 11, 2017 47 Comments

If you are a chart freak surely you wished you could convert all the chart runs of your favorite artists into retail sales. Well, from now on you can consider that it is

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The Ravaging Impact of Download Sales 2004-2014

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on July 11, 2017 23 Comments

When something dies down, there are two ways to feel about it – Rest In Peace or Good Riddance. The choice is easy while speaking about the music industry-killer from iTunes, legal downloads. They downgraded way more physical sales than …

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Understanding: why Ed Sheeran did better than Adele in the UK

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on March 14, 2017 5 Comments

Many things have been said about Ed Sheeran destroying UK charts. Mostly wrong things though. This is what happens when a pretty technical subject like Charts & Sales suddenly appears on news impacting a larger public, which is necessarily way …

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Understanding: Worldwide Estimations Information

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on November 26, 2016 12 Comments

Yesterday in the Frozen study I referred to Black Friday as the opening of the Holiday season. On the other side of the mirror it is also the final curtain call of the release schedule fever after three months full of …

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Understanding: Music Clubs #2 – The Eagles, Mariah Carey

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on October 13, 2016 14 Comments

Here we go again! After establishing the main specificities of Music Clubs and presenting a couple of examples, it is time to go deeper

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Understanding: Music Clubs #1 – Janet Jackson, Celine Dion

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on October 9, 2016 18 Comments

A few weeks ago, I presented you the first article of Understanding series explaining in details Japanese Album Sales. Today we will be reviewing a second sector which remains very poorly

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Understanding: Japanese Album Sales

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on July 15, 2016 61 Comments

There’s still plenty of work to be done on France Album Sales and CSPC Analysis categories. This being said, it is now time to introduce a new Master Series, the Understanding one.

RIAA Certifications to include streaming on albums awards

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on February 2, 2016 8 Comments

The Times Are A-Changing A few days only after our study describing how the industry will move into a streaming world, the RIAA reveals an expected but still breaking news. By adding streams among album certifications, the organization makes a …

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