The world of charts and sales has always been a tricky jigsaw. It now also requires to sort accurate information from made-up claims. Definitely, social media made it wild. Fanatics and trolls have been spreading fake information more than ever. …
https://flic.kr/p/TWn17m In the 1980s, the advent of music videos fundamentally changed the musical landscape. Some artists knew how to take advantage of this new support to promote their albums and acquire a huge popularity, including Madonna and of course Michael …
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Let’s continue our journey back in the past by focusing on the 90s. This decade is known as the all-time peak of the music market, especially album sales that went through the roof. Selling 10 millions albums has always been …
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Until a few years ago, chart lovers followed their fave artists and compared their success to others thanks to pure album sales. Nowadays, physical sales are going down but it doesn’t change the fact that some artists achieved gigantic figures …
For more than two years now I have been explaining to you the mechanics of the music industry. We can’t analyse without
The list of top sellers in each single-oriented format has been published during this week. It’s time to merge these three rankings to see who are the best selling singles artists of all time. Do Rihanna, The Beatles and Drake, …
Yesterday, a list of the Biggest Digital Single Sellers has been published. We saw that Rihanna easily dominates this ranking but there is no suspense, she does not appear among Best Physical Single Sellers. It is because
One week ago, the CSPC analysis of Oasis has been published. Their cult album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? has posted very strong results in streaming. The list added today in the Data Collector refers to this performance. How does it rank …
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How many units has Thriller sold? And Bad? And Dangerous? Find out the anwsers to these questions and an awful lot more about Michael Jackson right here!
As the Motown wasn’t affiliated to the RIAA, the Jackson 5 album sales are quite mysterious. Let’s find out all about their success!
