SoundScanNine Inch Nails "Free" Album Pulls In $1.6M In Its First WeekAuthored by Jay Baage on March 13, 2008 - 7:29am.
Kanye West's "Graduation" Breaks One-Week Digital Sales RecordAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 19, 2007 - 12:30pm.
New York - Hip-hop artist Kanye West's third album "Graduation" has established a new one-week digital sales record, logging over 132,000 album downloads in the week following its release on Sept. 11. The album broke the previous record of 102,000 first-week digital album sales, set earlier this year by Maroon 5. Kanye's album also debuted at #1 on Billboard's charts, racking up nearly 957,000 physical unit sales. Groove Mobile to Provide Mobile Song Sales Data to SoundScanAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 11, 2007 - 2:55pm.
Bedford, Mass. - Groove Mobile, a provider of mobile music download services, said on Wednesday that it will begin reporting global sales of mobile music downloads to Nielsen SoundScan, which provides data for the Billboard music charts. The data will include weekly music sales from Sprint in the U.S., 3 UK, Bell in Canada and also full track downloads from its recently announced off-portal service with Vodafone UK. Nielsen SoundScan: Digital Music Sales Up 67% in 2006Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 15, 2006 - 7:53am.
White Plains, N.Y. - Sales of digital music downloads so far in 2006 have grown 67% over last year, to 525 million downloads, already surpassing 2005 totals by over 170 million downloads, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Sales Growth for Digital Albums, Songs Buoy Industry in First Half of 2006Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 6, 2006 - 4:53pm.
Los Angeles - While physical album sales dropped 4.2% in the first half of 2006, strong growth in sales of digital albums (126%) and singles (77%) boosted the overall industry to a slight sales increase over the same period a year ago, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which cited Nielsen SoundScan data.
Musicane Digital Sales Data Added to SoundScan FiguresAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 20, 2006 - 7:43am.
Los Angeles - iMusicane, a provider of services that let artists, record labels and others sell downloads from their own websites, announced on Monday an agreement with record industry data provider Nielsen SoundScan, to include Musicane sales data in SoundScan sales figures. The deal will aggregate all sales of digital singles and music videos from Musicane sites into SoundScan digital sales data and Billboard charts.
Nielsen SoundScan to Track Pan-European Digital Music DownloadsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 25, 2006 - 9:14am.
White Plains, N.Y. - Nielsen SoundScan International, a provider of audience ratings information, announced on Wednesday that over 32 million songs were downloaded from European digital music services in 2005. The company tracks sales data from more than 110 download services in 17 countries. Nielsen's Pan-European Digital Tracks Chart for the week ending January 22 found that the Artic Monkeys' "When the Sun Goes Down" was the top-selling song, followed by Notorious B.I.G.'s "Nasty Girl" and Richard Ashcroft's "Break the Night with Colour."
Nielsen SoundScan Reports CD Sales Up 10.6% in First Quarter of 2004Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 12, 2004 - 6:28am.
Los Angeles, Calif. -- Nielsen SoundScan announced on Friday that sales of CDs, which represent 96 percent of album sales, rose 10.6 percent in the first quarter of 2004, resulting in the industry's best domestic sales in years. For the first time since 2000, two recording artists -- Norah Jones and Usher -- managed to sell more than 1 million copies of their albums in a single week this year. "We've had a big run so far,'' said Geoff Mayfield, director of charts and senior analyst for Billboard Magazine. "Because we've had three years of erosion, at least for the first eight months of the year, it will be relatively easy for the industry to post increases.'' Cary Sherman, President of the Recording Industry Association of America, called the first-quarter figures "good news,'' but cautioned that the results were measured against a dismal period.
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