It’s been exactly 6 months since we reviewed The Weeknd‘s career sales and achievements.
His latest effort After Hours is the most streamed English-language album of the year with an insane 3 billion streams on Spotify alone.
Today, we will find out just how much has changed since the release of the R&B superstar’s fourth studio album.
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Very popular during the 80s, Sade has released only 1 album per decade out of the last three.
Their discretion does not prevent them from selling well. Their last album, 2010’s Soldier of Love demonstrated it by shifting over 500,000 units at retail in its first week in the US.
Today we relive the career of one of the highest selling smooth jazz artist of all-time.
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Is there someone who doesn’t like Tracy Chapman? She is hardly the most famous pop star, but the American singer-songwriter seems to receive only positive opinions.
Can sympathy towards her and her music songs on large commercial success in spite of her lack of fame? That’s what we are going to analyse today.
If you lived in the 90s, you probably remember the music that flooded the radios at the time. A variety of styles were in the spotlight: alternative rock rather early in the decade (Nirvana, Oasis…), teen pop in the second half (Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys…), divas (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston…), soundtracks (Titanic, Bodyguard…) and so on. Do you know which songs are the most memorable of this decade? Place your bets!
Of course, the elitist press will think it’s outrageous to call the most streamed albums from the 90s the greatest ones. Some artists are arguably critics darlings, but some others are favored by the general public and we are left wondering who are we to contradict them. Surely, nearly 20 years after the end of this era, to belong to the most remembered music that came out of it tells something. It tells they are regarded as the greatest by a lot of people. So which are these albums that continue to appeal the masses so many years after their release?
The football World Cup is currently flooding media from everywhere. No artist is more linked to this competition than Shakira. During each of the last 4 World Cups, she got a huge hit. Whenever, Wherever in 2002, Hips Don’t Lie in 2006, Waka Waka in 2010 and Dare (La La La) in 2014, we are left wondering if her new song Clandestino will take over the same one as these previous summer anthems.
Back in mid-1995, Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette was unknown outside of her native country. A couple of years later, her global debut had outsold career peaks of Madonna, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. As a definitive evidence of that success, this album, Jagged Little Pill, has now been adapted into a musical.
After providing the 1995 Year End list with sales in Norway here comes Batch 2 with 1996’s top sellers. For the second year in a row Celine Dion View More
For more than two years now I have been explaining to you the mechanics of the music industry. We can’t analyse without View More
The Queen of Pop. Madonna is widely recognized as the biggest female star of all-time. As you know if you have been following Chartmasters.org for long, we created the Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept in order to validate or not those View More