British giants Coldplay are back! After a discreet return with their last, 2019 effort Everyday Life, the band returns with a new song, Higher Power.
Unlike their previous one, their upcoming record is marketed as a commercial opus. No doubt, Chris Martin and his colleagues know what it means to be successful.
Often called the biggest rock band of the century, is this reputation accurate according to factual data?
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Barbadian superstar Rihanna has been the ultimate hit machine since she began her career in the mid 2000s. No matter what your age is, you know songs like Umbrella, Don’t Stop the Music and We Found Love. It’s hard to believe this woman is only 33 years old!
Since 2006, all of her studio albums have featured at least one massive number one hit. Often regarded as a singles artist, we’ll now find out how true (or false) this claim is!
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As they have been doing since 2001, the IFPI published this week the top selling albums of the year. Unlike the previous edition, when they got the #1 wrong, this time they properly reported the global domination of Korean superstars BTS.
At the start, the list had some issues mainly due to missing albums. As years pass, its accuracy is getting worse and worse. We will review their 2020 top 10 to see that none of the albums has both its ranking and its sales figure correct.
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Killing Me Softly is one of these songs which strikes everyone instantly. You don’t need multiple plays to fell in love with it.
Even if it is a cover of Roberta Flack, the imprint of the Fugees was obvious.
Soon, they were claimed to own the greatest selling rap album of all-time. A quarter of century later, we review all their statistics up to date.
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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.
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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.
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When everyone though streaming was going to end with teen singers like Justin Bieber, the Canadian superstar crushed records in this format thanks to 2015’s Purpose.
How successful was his last effort from this year, Changes? Home of Yummy and Intentions, its impact doesn’t seem as impressive.
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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 of this market and identified receipts covering over 100 million unit sales.
Get ready for some heavy surprises as the USSR market looked like none other.
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The query “monthly listeners” spotify, with the double quotes, gives you over 2 million results on Google, the perfect illustration of a statistic that is more and more popular. Yet, it’s irrelevant.
Get to know why so and why the unrecognized Popularity Index, that we now share with this page updated daily, makes a whole lot more sense instead.
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The MENA region (short for Middle East and North Africa) has been a place of mystery for very long with no official charts and very few certifications ever coming out.
This resulted in very little awareness of sales happening there. Luckily these days are now over with streaming taking over the industry.
In this article, we will list the most popular international stars in the region, where does your favorite one lands?
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