Music industry – One step closer to being accurate
Can he do something wrong? After smashing hard with boy band One Direction, English singer Harry Styles embarked into an amazing solo career. Five years in, his first two LPs Harry Styles and Fine Line have been tremendous successes both …
As you can expect, the likes Drake and Ariana Grande recorded several of the top album debuts on Spotify, but many more are performing incredibly well. In fact, so far as many as 72 releases have broken the 100 million …
This week, we injected over 17,000 shipment codes from Brazil amounting to 162 million sales to our Receipts Database. As it happens, they reflect perfectly album sales in the country since their introduction in 2003. So let’s dig into them …
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. …
The most streamed International artists in the MENA region Read more »
Korean music behemoth BTS continue to make history. The boy band from Seoul sold over 5 million units with their new effort Map of the Soul: 7. This is the second fastest selling album of all-time.
So, are you ready to see a countdown of the best selling artists of the 2010s? A decade ago, the music industry was completely different. We still had record players at home, downloads was the big thing, Adele and Drake …
[UPDATE] The most streamed artists list is now updated automatically at this link. If you visit us, you surely saw a lot of news in recent years stating streaming records. What’s unlikely is that you ever saw a comprehensive list …
After going through the most streamed international songs in India, we want to get a larger view by looking at the top artists. The likes Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, BTS, Ariana Grande all seem very strong, …
Every year China seems to be climbing several positions on IFPI’s top music market’s ranking and the growth doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. In just a few years we could see this country overtake markets like the …
Looking at China’s most popular international artists Read more »
Map of the Soul: Persona, the new bomb from K-Pop masters BTS, records an absolutely impressive first week on Spotify at 98 million streams with a mere 7 songs. How does that compete against the top performers ever?