New features will include:

• complete all-time list
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  When I published the first CSPC articles, I personally and manually collected all the data, including the streaming statistics. In 2020 (for artists) and 2021 (for albums) we made huge steps forward. We integrated our streaming tools with CSPC articles, enabling streaming data to be updated automatically every day.

  From now on, we will also get automatically updated pure sales figures thanks to new algorithms.

  How do we do that?

  Introducing sales trends

  The majority of sales nowadays are either new albums which sell most of their units in a few weeks only, or classic albums enjoying steady recurrent sales.

  To deal with the latter, CSPC estimates will now also include figures for recurrent yearly sales in the background. For convenience purpose, we will call them sales trends. The data printed on screen will be the last known figure plus the recurrent sales over the number of days passed since that last known figure, rather than our estimate which is frozen in time.

   

  
  

   

• constant pure sales update 
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  From now on, we will also get automatically updated pure sales figures thanks to new algorithms.

  How do we do that?

  Introducing sales trends

  The majority of sales nowadays are either new albums which sell most of their units in a few weeks only, or classic albums enjoying steady recurrent sales.

  To deal with the latter, CSPC estimates will now also include figures for recurrent yearly sales in the background. For convenience purpose, we will call them sales trends. The data printed on screen will be the last known figure plus the recurrent sales over the number of days passed since that last known figure, rather than our estimate which is frozen in time.

   

  
  

   

• improved stream estimates

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With streaming getting a bigger and bigger share of artist’s units, being as close as it gets from their exact numbers is key.

For this reason, we audit results from various platforms covering different markets. We’re auditing Spotify, QQ (China), Genie (South Korea), AWA (Japan), Anghami (MENA), as well as African platforms Boomplay and Audiomack.

Relevant streaming actors like Apple Music, Amazon Music or Deezer do not publish their numbers though. To deal with that, we extrapolate numbers from Spotify based on the global market shares.

One problem remained unsolved up to now. It was the fact that not all artists and genre perform equally well in distinct platforms, like Spotify and Apple Music for example. We now have a solution.

 

More details (esp on the global streaming analysis) in their article:

 

https://chartmasters.org/more-features-less-problems/

 

I'm super curious about how this will affect artists who do significantly better on streaming platforms outside of Spotify. 

Christina Aguilera to be exposed as a local two era wonder, can't wait

so where are they getting the pure sales again?

 

that's so vague what they just gave

6 minutes ago, supertiffany said:

so where are they getting the pure sales again?

 

that's so vague what they just gave

They’re going to use an algorithm to try to determine sales over time and it will show that number outside of the actual estimates per album. 

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Based on what you regularly tell us, we are already thinking about introducing a subscription 

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Looks like Taylor & Drake are getting a boost from their streaming data refinements. Taylor already went quite a few places up it seems

20 minutes ago, Timber said:

From now on, we will also get automatically updated pure sales figures thanks to new algorithms.

oh no 

Please free this forum from the shackles of this blog 

 

EDIT: I just read the entire update and LOL. They themselves are admitting they have incomplete data and use guesstimations to make up for it. These changes are just elaborate ways to guesstimate better. He’s shaming “inflated” label numbers yet is playing with incomplete data while touting about accuracy. What a joke 

Edited March 15, 20233 yr by RihFenty20

So they basically admitting to add streaming stats based on no real figures but just who seems more popular where and some certs or whatever

 

 

the way streaming acts will get a big boost

 

 

The way this site worships Chartmaster like it's their ultimate saviour  

The meltdowns over Chartmaster every single time like it is not the best we have

If it doesn't have Tinashe, they can keep it

 

57 minutes ago, Timber said:

I'm super curious about how this will affect artists who do significantly better on streaming platforms outside of Spotify. 

Or artists who are the opposite and currently have their streaming units inflated (Dua Lipa) 

So they don't even have streaming data? 

55 minutes ago, Timber said:

I'm super curious about how this will affect artists who do significantly better on streaming platforms outside of Spotify. 

I'm more curious as how they would get that info if no service asides of Spotify publishes the number of streams to the general public. 
Are they just gonna make an estimate? That site is a constant fraud tbh 

43 minutes ago, RihFenty20 said:

Please free this forum from the shackles of this blog 

 

EDIT: I just read the entire update and LOL. They themselves are admitting they have incomplete data and use guesstimations to make up for it. These changes are just elaborate ways to guesstimate better. He’s shaming “inflated” label numbers yet is playing with incomplete data while touting about accuracy. What a joke 

I just read that too

 

And yet the delusional defenders will be in here doing mental gymnastics to justify the guesstimations.

I guess Dua Lipa streaming numbers will stop being inflated by her only being a presence on Youtube and Spotify.

that sounds like a lot of guesswork

44 minutes ago, RihFenty20 said:

Please free this forum from the shackles of this blog 

 

EDIT: I just read the entire update and LOL. They themselves are admitting they have incomplete data and use guesstimations to make up for it. These changes are just elaborate ways to guesstimate better. He’s shaming “inflated” label numbers yet is playing with incomplete data while touting about accuracy. What a joke 

no wonder they have obvious favorites especially to the chart obsessed fanbase that regularly visit their website and they do this for clicks

3 minutes ago, Machete said:

Or artists who are the opposite and currently have their streaming units inflated (Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas, Cardi B, Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber since 2015, Doja Cat, Megan The Stallion or every artist who debuted in the streaming era) 

fixed 

48 minutes ago, Brando said:

Looks like Taylor & Drake are getting a boost from their streaming data refinements. Taylor already went quite a few places up it seems

the fan blog will have her at 500M units and beat Madonna next

36 minutes ago, Rev8 said:

So they basically admitting to add streaming stats based on no real figures but just who seems more popular where and some certs or whatever

 

 

the way streaming acts will get a big boost

 

 

That's not what they said at all   Reading is essential.

 

What they used to do is give a flat multiplier for Spotify streams to get overall streams. This multiplier was based on the global market share Spotify has. So if Spotify had 80% of WW audio streaming market, they would multiply everyone's Spotify numbers by 1.25 to get overall streams across all platforms. The issue with this (an issue several people on this site have stated before when people uphold Spotify numbers as the bible for a song's success) is Spotify's true market share varries when it comes to both markets and genres. An R&B or Rap artist like Lil Baby should have a FARRRR larger Spotify multiplier than a pop artist like Dua Lipa, based on both the fact that Urban music streams better on other platforms like Apple Music and the US (Lil Baby's main market) is way less Spotify dominant than Dua Lipa's main market of Europe.

 

CM revealed some updated multipliers for some artists:
Drake - 1.95477 (same logic for Lil Baby applies here)
Taylor - 1.71566
Ed Sheeran - 1.54582
Bad Bunny - 1.31442 (Spotify has a massive near 80% market share in Latin America so he is not missing as much streams) 

Edited March 15, 20233 yr by Machete

3 minutes ago, Axelios said:

I guess Dua Lipa streaming numbers will stop being inflated by her only being a presence on Youtube and Spotify.

and global services Deezer and Amazon Music 

50 minutes ago, Brando said:

Looks like Taylor & Drake are getting a boost from their streaming data refinements. Taylor already went quite a few places up it seems

In the all time list, right? I’m about to check it out now