by Bram Teitelman | Aug 28, 2014 | News, Recaps, Streaming Music
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...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 16, 2014 | Metal By Numbers
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....
by Zach Shaw | Jan 7, 2011 | News Ticker
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.
by Metal Insider | Jan 12, 2010 | Metal By Numbers
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...
by Metal Insider | Jan 8, 2010 | Metal By Numbers
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%,...