Billboard200 and US Digital Songs Charts (week ending January 26th, 2014)

Grammy nominees album debuts at #2 selling much more than predicted 40.000 copies. A Great Big World debuts at #4 with "Is There Anybody Out There?". On digital songs, Katy Perry holds strong at #1, while Jason Derulo and Pharrell Williams shoot up to #2 and #3.

EU Airplay (20/01/14 - 26/01/14)

Avicii is on top of EU airplay with his latest single "Hey Brother" with almost 700m impact. Pharrell Williams is getting closer to the top spot, tho, with a healthy 11% increase in impacts. Shakira/Rihanna collaboration "Can't Remember To Forget You" is percentage wise biggest gainer of the week with 97% increase of plays and 35% increase in impact.

US Airplay Update (25/01/14 - 31/01/14)

Check out the latest update on US radio airplay.

Swedish music industry is 5% up in 2013

Sweden music industry scores a 5% growth in 2013 with total revenue of 991.2m SEK (around 154m dollars). Just like in Norway, streaming services are the biggest part of total revenue in Sweden as well. Streaming services grew by more than 30% and generated 705.9m SEK (106m $) which means they represent 71.2% of the total music industry revenue and 95.6% of total digital revenue.

UK Airplay (20/01/14 - 26/01/14)

Pharrell Williams may have dropped to #2 on Official UK Charts but he still rules UK radio with big lead in both, plays and impact over Avicii, who is #2 with "Hey Brother". Biggest seller of last week, Clean Bandit is #4 on radio airplay and the future sales for A Great Big World collaboration with Christina Aguilera seem certain after "Say Something" shoots up radio play with 133% increase in number of plays and 1163% in impact.

UK Singles and Album Sales (19/01/14 - 25/01/14)

Clean Bandit claims his first UK's single #1 with "Rather Be", a collaboration with talented Jess Glynne. The Vamps enter at #3 with their new single "Wild Heart" and Neon Jungle are a new entry at #4. Ellie Goulding returns to #1 on albums section with "Halcyon" and pushes Bruce Springsteen to #2. Beyonce is #3 and new entry from Sophie Ellis-Bextor "Wanderlust" debuts at #4.

Australia: Streaming services causing digital sales drop

The Music Network reports that Australian digital market has suffered a significant decline right at the beginning of 2014. Since this time last year, Australian market has been under the influence of streaming services and with the latest launch of Beats streaming service the effect is visible.

German market scores growth in 2013

German music industry scored an increase in music market revenue in 2013. Data for 2013 show a modest 1% growth on year-on-year basis. Total revenue from digital and physical sales and streaming in 2013 was 1.45 billion euros ( 1.96 billion dollars).

Streams and downloads dominate Norway's growth

IFPI reports that Norwegian music market revenue has increased by 11% in 2013. Total revenue in 2013 in Norway was 603 million NOK (around 98 million dollars*) compared to 545 million NOK (around 88 million dollars*) in 2012.

Street Pulse (Tuesday, January 21st, 2014)

StreetPulse charts are based on total sales on the first day of release, Tuesday. Click 'read more' for complete top50.

Digital sales rising, physicals declining in Canada

Canadian music market scores positive results in digital sales area on year-on-year comparison. Digital singles scored 116.1 million sales in 2013 which is a 2% increase comparing to 2012, when sales were 114.3 million.

December 7, 2012

New airplay sources

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Latest update features some new airplay sources. Israeli Media Forest provides data for radio play in the form of weekly top10 but on the front page of their site you can find top10 daily updates as well. They are providing mixed, Israeli only and international top10. Lebanon airplay follows similar pattern but they offer top20 airplay with combined, English and Arabic section.

Mexican airplay top20 is another new feature. They offer you general, popular, pop and English top20. There's also Romanian top100 airplay broadcasted by Kiss FM and South African airplay top10.

Last but not least it's Russian and Ukrainian airplay. They are both in the form of top100 offered in weekly and monthly format. Find them in Airplay section.
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December 6, 2012

Big iTunes update

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After launching iTunes 11, Apple launched iTunes stores in 56 new countries, including promising markets like India, Russia, South Africa and Turkey. Itunes are now available in 119 countries, so I updated sources for iTunes stores and albums and singles top100 feeds. Check it out here.
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