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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History: What is “SoundScan,” anyway?

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Record Sales, Soundscan

If you follow the business side of the music, you may have run across the term “SoundScan.”  This is the

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Interesting: I was quoted by Talib Kweli on Instagram

December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Instagram, Record Sales, Talib Kweli

Nice to be quoted by American rapper Talib Kweli on Instagram. He used me to bolster his argument about record

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Music Industry 

The story of how SoundScan changed everything for popular music 30 years ago

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music sales, Record Sales, Soundscan

SoundScan is the system by which the sales physical music formats are tracked. When it was implemented in 1991, it

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Music News
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Random Music New for Wednesday, December 14, 2016

December 14, 2016December 13, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Andrea Botacelli, Apple AirPods, Coachella, Donald Trump, India, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Millennials, Neil Young, Pono, Radio, Record Sales, Rolling Stones, Vinyl

On this day in 1972, Eugene Cernan became the last person to walk on the moon. Why haven’t we been

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Music Industry 

Should iTunes Tracks Go on Sale?

August 2, 2016August 1, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment iTunes, Record Sales

With both physical and digital record sales hitting new levels of suckage, the industry has to be freaking out over

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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Thursday, July 7, 2016

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What happened near Roswell, New Mexico, on this date in 1947? We still don’t really know. But I can tell

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Music History 

61 Artists Have Sold 100,000,000 Records. How Many Can You Name?

September 9, 2015September 9, 2015 Alan Cross 10 Comments Album sales, Record Sales

Here’s another terrific infographic from Completely Ignored. A hard scour through Wikipedia suggests these 61 artists have sold more than

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Music Industry 

Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 29 April 2015

May 2, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment Record Sales, Soundscan

Here’s what happened this past week starting with Canada. Overall album sales are up 2% over the same period in

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Music Industry 

The Global Record Industry Falls to a New Historic Low

April 14, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment IFPI, Music sales, Record Sales

In all the time the record industry has been keeping track of global revenues, things have never, ever fallen below

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Music Industry 

So Which Genre Sold the Most Albums in Canada Last Year?

January 14, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2014, Canada, Genres, Record Sales

The other day I posted about how rock sold more than any other genre in the US. Of all the

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Music Industry 

Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis for 02 April 2014

April 2, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment Nielsen Soundscan, Record Sales, Soundscan

Not much improvement this week with overall album sales still lagging 2013 by 7% with physical CDs down 7%, digital

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