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Soundscan Scam: something in the milk aint clean

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2008-03-26 14:06:39 by Sandra Rose in sandrarose.com
...Soundscans tracking system or is the problem within the labels? Are the labels unfairly inflating sales figures by buying and selling back CDs to record distributors This is a practice that labels such as Def Jam have been accused of for years. For instance, its common knowledge that some mainstream labels have been paying off record stores...
 
 
 
 
 
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Got Barcodes? Got Registered

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2008-06-02 16:42:24 by jamilleluney in Jamille Luney Music Analyst & Producer
...SoundScan. Nielsen SoundScan will not track your music sales if 1) You dont have a UPC barcode AND 2) You dont register the UPC barcode with Nielsen SoundScan Dont believe me check their website FAQ page . One of the questions on their FAQ page is If a title is sold before it is registered with Nielsen SoundScan, will those sales be applied...
 
 
 
 
 
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Responding To Readers Comments

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2008-07-21 18:46:28 by jamilleluney in Jamille Luney Music Analyst & Producer
...SoundScan Thx From Got Barcodes? Got Registered , 2008/07/09 at 12:39 AM My Response to Jerry jamilleluney Hey Jerry, great question. Im answering here and also in one of my posts responding to readers itunes and Rhapsody are legally required to submit each sale, including single sales, to Nielsen SoundScan. Do they? Hmmm, wed honestly have...
 
 
 
 
 
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Choosing a Digital Music Distributor

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2008-07-11 15:52:28 by jamilleluney in Jamille Luney Music Analyst & Producer
...SoundScan for selling 2,000,000 units because it is their UPC barcode on Alicia Keys CD Now lets put you in the example with SongCast. You sell 8,000 copies of your music using a SongCast barcode. You may make a good amount of money, but it is Songcasts barcode on your music. To record labels and Nielsen SoundScan, it looks like SongCast...
 
 
 
 
 
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Does Harvard have Chris Anderson by his long-tail?

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2008-07-14 16:22:44 by Barry Shrum in Music Row Law
...SoundScan data. She concludes The Nielsen data cover multiple retailers, multiple channels, and multiple years, offering a wealth of material to test aspects of Andersons long-tail theory. What emerges is not a rosy picture of the fate of long-tail products: the tail increasingly consists of titles that rarely sell and that are produced by...
 
 
 
 
 
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Twilight film soundtrack scores big - see movie pics

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2008-11-14 03:32:57 by Jim in The Concert Blog
...SOUNDSCAN/BILLBOARD 200 HERALDED BY LEAD SINGLE, PARAMORES DECODE TWILIGHT: THE SCORE COMING SOON TWILIGHT, THE FILM, HITS THEATRES NOV. 21ST TWILIGHTORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK, the musical companion to the upcoming Summit Entertainment film, has made an explosive #1 debut atop this weeks SoundScan/Billboard 200 album chart. The Chop...
 
 
 
 
 
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Sold Lots of Music and Still Not Discovered?

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2008-06-02 17:00:02 by jamilleluney in Jamille Luney Music Analyst & Producer
...SoundScan did not track their sales. In order for Nielsen SoundScan to track your music sales you must have abarcode and you have to register that barcode with Nielsen SoundScan. This applies to music sales online as well. Dont just rely on SnoCap or MySpace, thats a huge mistake. MySpace servers crash all the time. Dont trust somebody else...
 
 
 
 
 
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Carrie Underwood Tops Billboard Charts

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2007-11-02 03:23:00 by Jeorge in All About Music Reviews
...SoundScan, marking her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Her Grammy-winning debut "Some Hearts" opened at No. 2 with 315,000 copies in 2005 Country music ruled the Billboard charts this week as Allison Krauss' new album with Robert Plant took second place, Carrie Underwood's sophomore effort finished at the top and Gary Allan's 'Living Hard'...
 
 
 
 
 
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Does Kansas City Care About Charlie Parker?

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2007-11-05 13:45:00 by Happy In Bag in Plastic Sax
...Soundscan, the music industry's primary sales reporting tool Local sales of Charlie Parkers recordings tell a far different story than the happy version recited by Kansas City's cultural and political elite Soundscan lists 328 individual Parker titles. Of these, 79 have zero sales. Assuming that those 79 titles were never issued, that...
 
 
 
 
 
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Canadians Love Avril Lavigne!