Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 28, 2014
First the good news: Ace Frehley had a top 10 album when the charts came out yesterday. Then the bad news: pretty much everything else. For the week that just ended, the 3.97 million albums sold is the lowest cumulative week since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. In fact, it’s the first time in the […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 16, 2014
As you saw in yesterday’s Metal by Numbers, there weren’t any notable heavy debuts this week, nor were there even that many metal bands selling. In fact, last week’s sales frame was the lowest-selling week in the SoundScan era, which began in 1991. According to a Billboard article, only 4.25 million albums were sold in […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on January 7, 2011
Metallica not only remains as one of the top ten selling artists of the SoundScan era, but their 1991 self-titled album (the “black album”) also remains as the highest selling album of the era, with 15.5 million sold and counting.
Posted by Dan Rodriguez on January 12, 2010
SoundScan has announced the reclassification of 21 small retail chains and their 213 locations to count their sales alongside indie retailers. Previously these chains, like New England’s famous Newbury Comics, were considered large enough to be lumped in with megachains like Best Buy and FYE. Retail spokespeople like NARM President Jim Donio are pleased with […]
Posted by Dan Rodriguez on January 8, 2010
US music purchases rose 2.1% in 2009 according to Nielsen SoundScan, including the sales of digital and physical albums, singles and videos. Overall album sales were still down, however, dropping 8.5% to 490 million, though digital album sales rose again to 16.1%, 76.4 million for the year. The study goes on to conclude digital now […]
