Record Sales Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Ongoing History: What is “SoundScan,” anyway?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver