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These are necessary for deeper research purposes. The raw data is also intellectual property owned by Nielsen and requires individual subscriptions for access. The information is heavily protected with military-grade security and zero-tolerance information sharing policies. This leads to why all of this is so important. Subscribing to SoundScan is typically limited to those with a business need, such as music publishers, booking and promotion agents, management firms, and radio promoters.
Most people will not need the actual detailed sales figures and can simply rely on the Billboard charts. This leaves an important question of whether to sign up or not. With how important it is, you absolutely need to register every single song and album you release. Their reps will get you set up with an account. Each individual will get a login even within the same company , and sharing these logins can get your account suspended, so do so with caution.
If your indie label is going to be taken seriously, it needs to be registered with SoundScan. How you get started with Nielsen SoundScan depends on how you plan to use it. As a musician, you simply need to register every song and album released using the form at the link above.
This information is proprietary and the associated subscription costs adjust based on the size and nature of your business.
Cool to see the advice put into action. Hey Warren. Thanks for the question. A couple ways you can ensure your pre-release sales count towards the charts. If you are in the USA, you can take the orders through a Shopify online store. The other way is to take your physical CD pre-orders through global stores like Amazon.
You could ask them directly. Bandzoogle and BandCamp are website creation platform for artists, and music sold through their platform reports to chart companies. Hope that helps. I did see a gentleman above mention he was on Billboard Heatseekers and other charts. How does one find out? Do we need to register for something to be notified? Hey Rudy, No, Billboard does not alert you, if your music charts.
You must seek it out yourself. If you are not a subscriber to either Nielsen or Billboard, sometimes you can Google search your name, track name, and billboard chart name and see something in the search results.
Does Nielsen have their own charts as well? I actually reached out to the gentleman above what a great artist and he mentioned Billboard contacted him the week before asking a few questions saying he might chart the following week.
Does Billboard Heatseekers only do albums or is there one for digital singles as well? Thanks again man!! Here is how the Music Biz global style guide recommends listing featured artists. XYZ Artist feat. Maceo Parker]. Keep it consistent with what you put in distribution. You should make sure to keep your metadata consistent across all platforms you register with. Make sure it matches exactly the way you have it with your distributor. This will ensure you get paid properly. But going forward with new songs you register, please follow the MusicBiz style guide.
I just read all of this valuable information. Thank You! Also I registered my releases with Soundscan after my release dates. Thank you. In the future let your digital distributor assign a UPC for the digital configurations. In order to ensure your releases chart on the first week usually when the most sales report , make sure you register your tracks with Nielsen Soundscan several weeks in advance of street date.
Nielsen will not go back and credit the sales for the time before it was registered. It starts from when the submission is entered into their database. If you use the same UPC for CD and vinyl, the sales will still count, but they will most likely be combined on the report under the CD column default. So nobody will be able to break out the CD sales from vinyl sales. But whoever reports the vinyl sales to Nielsen will need to submit that new vinyl UPC. Hey Todd My artist new album release accumulated 1.
What is the chance that the album made the Billboard heatseekers Chart? There is a chance. Go to these links and look by Release Week. Which sucks, because now we have to play against the big leagues. He mentioned below August Your email was forwarded to me.
In regards to your Heatseeker question. Also those 2 Spotify charts are no longer done. The only chart we have dedicated to showcasing just Independent artist is our Independent Albums chart. Please let me know if there is anything else. Paying subscribers to Nielsen get many more charts that Billboard has. The charts available online are not the only charts Nielsen and the labels have.
They did away with the regional Heatseekers. Indies can be competitive still on these charts. More established artists are excluded as soon as one of their tracks or albums lands in the top of a bigger consumption chart.
Does this mean only one transaction per week will count towards Billboard charts? Can Nielsen track digital songs by upc alone even if someone forgot to download it? Hi Laura, On your first question… I think you are referring to mail order sales of physical goods where one person purchases more than one copy of an album? They are doing this to prevent corruption. And yes, if somebody ordered 3 copies on the same mail order purchase, only one of those album sales will be chart eligible.
All songs will have an ISRC assigned by the digital distributor or record label. If an album includes a really old song like from 5 years before release , do they count those streams in the first-week release of the album? Yes, MRC will count the streams for that old track — but only for that first week.
If that is what you were wondering. This also goes for pre-release singles that appear on the album. For example if your first single is released 3 months before the album is released, when you get your first week streaming report for the album the one eligible for that album release date it only includes the stream for that song for the week, not the previous 3 months.
Only the song streams for the album release week are chart eligible. Thank you for the article Mr. If My goal is to chart on Billboard and most of my fans are international and purchase from a US store, will those international sales contribute to BB?
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