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What Are the Best-Selling Albums of All Time?

January 28, 2023

Photo Credit: Douglas Johnson / CC by 2.0 What are the best-selling albums of all time? We look at the top ten based on total certified copies sold versus claimed copies sold -- and why it's so difficult to d... Read More...

Viberate Disrupts the Music Industry by Making Data Affordable for Everyone

Urska Jaksa

January 18, 2023

Photo Credit: Viberate “Reducing the price from $129 to only $9.90 per month feels like the right thing to do,” says the co-founder of music data analytics platform Viberate, which also started the year by ro... Read More...

Immensity Marketing Analytics – Solving The Music Industry’s Attribution Problem With Machine Learning And Data Science

Immensity

January 17, 2023

Immensity is an intelligent marketing analytics system that uses advanced statistics and machine learning to figure out which social activities or marketing campaigns are actually driving audience growth, fan... Read More...

Tunefind’s 2022 Top TV Placements Show Sync Opportunities for Catalog Tracks Are Stronger Than Ever

Paul Resnikoff

January 12, 2023

Tunefind has published its year-end round-up for top sync placements in 2022 — and older tracks are still making a serious dent. With decades-old tracks snatching up significant sync opportunities and stealin... Read More...

Apple Subscriptions Surpassed 900 Million In 2022, Per Execs, As Over 80% of Apple Music Subscribers Listened In Spatial Audio

Dylan Smith

January 11, 2023

More than 80 percent of Apple Music subscribers listened in spatial audio last year, according to Apple. Photo Credit: Auguras Pipiras Apple’s services boasted approximately 900 million paid subscriptions at ... Read More...

UK Music Industry Sales Cracked $2.4 Billion During 2022 As Vinyl Outsold CDs For the First Time Since 1987, Report Shows

Dylan Smith

January 10, 2023

London, England. Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies Thanks largely to continued streaming and vinyl growth, UK music industry sales increased by about three percent during 2022 and approached £1.99 billion, accord... Read More...

Discovery to Development: How Data Helps A&Rs Make Informed Talent Investments

Ashley King

January 9, 2023

Streaming platforms have more than eight million artists and eighty million tracks. Sifting through that volume means having the right tool at your disposal. Here's a peek at how Chartmetric can help you filt... Read More...

Vinyl Sales in the US Hit Highest Levels Since 1991 – Report

Ashley King

January 2, 2023

Photo Credit: Jamakassi Vinyl sales in the United States have reached highs not seen since 1991 thanks to the holidays. Data from Luminate shows that 2.32 million vinyl albums were sold in the week ending D... Read More...

New Album Releases Lead a 15-Year Uptick in Vinyl LP Sales — Album Success in 2022 Shared Across the UK

Ashley King

December 28, 2022

Photo Credit: James Sutton Album success in 2022 is shared across the regions of the UK, while new album releases lead a predicted 15th successive annual uplift in vinyl LP sales, with eight of the year's Top... Read More...

Mariah Carey Breaks Spotify’s Single-Day Global Streaming Record With ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

Dylan Smith

December 27, 2022

Photo Credit: WBLS / CC by 3.0 Mariah Carey’s perennial holiday favorite “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has broken Spotify’s single-day global streaming record. This latest commercial feat for the nearly... Read More...

Chartmetric Puts Its Own Spin on SiriusXM Data Tracking

Paul Resnikoff

December 20, 2022

A SiriusXM summary snapshot on Chartmetric for soul singer Bobby Caldwell and his 1978 smash, “What You Won’t Do for Love.” One of the music industry’s best-paying platforms is now comprehensively tracked by ... Read More...

British venues suffer downturn due to rail strikes

British Venues Suffering 50% Drop in Business Due to Rail Strikes, NTIA Estimates

Ashley King

December 20, 2022

Photo Credit: Samuel Regan-Asante Rail strikes in the UK have led to a drastic decline of over 50% in venue business for the busiest weekend of the year. The data comes from the Night Time Industries Associa... Read More...

A Look At Post-Oscars Streaming Boosts for Performers at 2023 Ceremony

Spanish Recorded Music Revenues Jump 12.43% in 2022 to Nearly $500 Million

Streaming Is Taking Off In Japan, 2022 Data Shows — As Both Vinyl and CD Sales Remain Strong

U.S. Recorded Music Revenue Approached $16 Billion In 2022 Amid Continued Vinyl and Streaming Growth, Report Shows

Roughly 60,000 ‘Professionally Aspiring Artists’ Generated $10,000 Or More In 2022 From Spotify (According to Spotify)

What Are the Best-Selling Albums of All Time?

Viberate Disrupts the Music Industry by Making Data Affordable for Everyone

Immensity Marketing Analytics – Solving The Music Industry’s Attribution Problem With Machine Learning And Data Science

Tunefind’s 2022 Top TV Placements Show Sync Opportunities for Catalog Tracks Are Stronger Than Ever

Apple Subscriptions Surpassed 900 Million In 2022, Per Execs, As Over 80% of Apple Music Subscribers Listened In Spatial Audio

UK Music Industry Sales Cracked $2.4 Billion During 2022 As Vinyl Outsold CDs For the First Time Since 1987, Report Shows

Discovery to Development: How Data Helps A&Rs Make Informed Talent Investments

Vinyl Sales in the US Hit Highest Levels Since 1991 – Report

New Album Releases Lead a 15-Year Uptick in Vinyl LP Sales — Album Success in 2022 Shared Across the UK

Mariah Carey Breaks Spotify’s Single-Day Global Streaming Record With ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

Chartmetric Puts Its Own Spin on SiriusXM Data Tracking

British Venues Suffering 50% Drop in Business Due to Rail Strikes, NTIA Estimates