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Brazil best sellers since 2003

Brazil best sellers: Ivete Sangalo — Ivete Sangalo

Several months ago, we launched our Receipts Database with the objective of putting together as many factual data figures as possible.

The database keeps growing. This week, we injected over 17,000 shipment codes from Brazil amounting to 162 million sales.

France Best Selling Albums Ever

INTRODUCTION

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 are back on it to update all numbers and add albums which crossed the magical 1 million threshold.

YouTube’s Most Streamed Artists of 2020

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 among the most streamed stars of the year 2020. Today, we will review them.

Mannheim Steamroller albums and songs sales

Among all-time top selling artists, Mannheim Steamroller may be the least well-known of them, yet they are possibly the most fascinating of all.

In fact, everything you think you know about music is challenged by the incredible career trajectory of this artist.

As we enjoy the holiday season, we wonder how is it possible that an artist you never heard of sold more Christmas records than even Elvis Presley or Mariah Carey?

Streaming Masters – Mannheim Steamroller

Chip Davis, founder of Mannheim Steamroller

This week, Christmas titles broke all kind of records on streaming platforms, with Mariah Carey‘s All I Want For Christmas Is You hitting 17 million daily plays on Spotify.

During pure sales era, Christmas kings were Mannheim Steamroller. How are they doing in this day and age?

Lady Gaga albums and songs sales

Starting her career so strongly, the popularity of Lady Gaga inevitably began to diminish album by album. As the years passed by, that’s exactly how her career was being painted but then out of the blue, the singer decide to change her landscape and ended up proving a lot of people wrong.

On a downward trajectory for many years, her career was reinvigorated when she starred and sang in the Box Office smash, A Star Is Born OST.

But has she managed to solidify this revival in fortune, with her lastest pop effort, Chromatica?

Streaming Masters – Lady Gaga

Iconic diva Lady Gaga made a stunning comeback since the release of the song Shallow from A Star Is Born movie. The track and the album quickly jumped to the top of sales and streaming charts all over the world.

Is it fueling her back catalog as well? How does the soundtrack perform in comparison to her blockbuster The Fame?

Van Halen albums and songs sales

A top frontman and a legendary guitarist shot Van Halen among the best selling American bands of all-time.

The latter, Eddie Van Halen, passed away on October this year from cancer at the age of 65.

Our best way to pay tribute to this iconic band is to study their sales figures in detail, which happen to be very impressive.

Streaming Masters – Van Halen

From their first eponymous release in 1978 to the mid-90s, Van Halen was one of the very top selling band around the world.

How big are their streams today? Which one of their tracks are the most listened to?

Miley Cyrus albums and songs sales

She’s back! After yet another image overhaul, the ever-so-controversial Miley Cyrus returns with a new album, Plastic Hearts.

The former teen idol has been making rounds on social media this year, in part because of her high profile covers. What about her own music, though?

She’s released plenty of her own material since we first analyzed her career in 2017, including an EP, two studio albums and a bunch of stand alone singles. We’ll find out about their performance below!