From Drake to Jelly Roll, Luminate and Billboard determine touring's impact on local streaming activity for 50 of last year's top-grossing acts.
Luminate changed the way it tracks physical sales, and some stores stopped reporting them. Here's the story behind the numbers.
The arrangement is another step in Luminate’s efforts to unify data for the entertainment industry.
Thanks to increased consumption of artists like Peso Pluma, Spanish-language music is slowly eating away at English's market share among the most popular songs.
Helped by a dominating year from Taylor Swift, U.S. album consumption grew 12.6% to 1.1 billion units.
Amid big gains for country and Latin, R&B/hip-hop's dominance appears to be waning, according to Billboard’s year-end music genre rankings.
Luminate’s Year-End U.S. Report: Album consumption increased 12.6%, album sales grew again and Taylor Swift has five of the year’s top 10 albums.
The data and analytics company's note to independent retailers cites a "consensus" for changing how it counts sales across the sector.
Morgan Wallen and Taylor Swift drive Republic to a lead of almost four percentage points over No. 2 Interscope Geffen A&M.
Morgan Wallen leads a boom in country and world music continues to blossom, among other genre takeaways from the year's midway point.
