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France Best Selling Albums Ever

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on January 16, 2021 62 Comments

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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Sting albums and songs sales

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on June 14, 2020 18 Comments
Sting albums and songs sales

After enjoying incredible years as the leader of The Police, Sting went solo from 1985. The format was different, but the success was the same. 35 years in, the versatile singer is still very active, although his rocking years seem …

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Going through South Africa’s top foreign albums sellers of the 80s

By Hernán Lopez Posted on November 26, 2019 11 Comments

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 …

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Going through South Africa’s top foreign albums sellers of the 70s

By Hernán Lopez Posted on September 16, 2019 3 Comments

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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Biggest Songs of the 1980s (CSPC)

By Anthony Blanchard Posted on May 4, 2019 34 Comments
Biggest Songs of the 1980s (CSPC)

Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Guns N’ Roses, Bon Jovi, Queen, Phil Collins… All these artists and many others have had an enormous impact on the music of the 80s, and have sung some of the biggest hits of this period. …

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Going through Mexico’s top foreign sellers of the 80s

By Hernán Lopez Posted on April 26, 2019 18 Comments

Do you have any idea of what was popular in Mexico during the 80s? Which international music star struck them the most? Was Thriller as huge there as it was everywhere? Were other megastars like Madonna, Phil Collins or Prince equally …

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Going through Brazil’s top foreign sellers of the 70s

By Hernán Lopez Posted on March 13, 2019 11 Comments

After going through the fantastic atmosphere of the 80s in this country, do you wanna know which were Brazil’s top foreign sellers of the 70s? If you search for “Brazil 70s” on Google, everything you find is related to their …

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Going through Brazil’s top foreign sellers of the 80s

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on February 21, 2019 12 Comments

Are you ready for a fascinating ride in the Brazilian atmosphere of the 80s? We may caricature the local music scene and say that moms were crazy about Roberto Carlos, that kids went wild with Xuxa and that youth’s idols …

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43 Classic LPs of the 80s

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on November 22, 2018 75 Comments

During the 80s everything got bigger. Arena rock, heavy metal, power ballads, dancefloor anthems, kings & queens of pop, existing genres got louder, heavier. The scene also became more diverse with rap and electronic music breaking the main audience. Are …

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38 Must-Buy 70s Albums

By Guillaume Vieira Posted on November 13, 2018 19 Comments

The decade-old streaming service Spotify is now close to 200 million active monthly users. While new music is always preferred, these subscribers still show plenty of love to 70s classics. If the Beatles were inevitable during the 60s, one can wonder …

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