Music Analytics Service BuzzAngle Music Tracks Record Store Day Sales Growth
BuzzAngle Music, Border City Media’s comprehensive service that provides deep analytics of music consumption as it relates to the music industry through web and mobile access, has released its second annual set of daily data for Record Store Day sales. BuzzAngle Music’s data shows:
A 628% growth in sales at independent record stores on Record Store Day (Saturday, April 18) in comparison to the previous Saturday (April 11).
A 3.3% growth from Record Store Day 2014.
The White Stripes’ Get Behind Me Satan and Metallica’s cassette demo No Life Til Leather top the BuzzAngle Music Charts of Record Store Day Releases; top 25 titles listed below.
“Our release of Record Store Day data in 2014 was the first of its kind, pinpointing the exact sales for each day and how they changed day-to-day, and this year’s data is similarly specific and fascinating,” said Jim Lidestri, Founder and CEO of Border City Media. “While other services summarize weekly activity with extrapolations and estimates, BuzzAngle Music is the most consistently precise and accurate provider of data, whether it’s measuring Record Store Day numbers, post-Grammys sales bumps, or a variety of measurements for other mediums that we’re planning to roll out in the months ahead.”
With full support from the Independent Music Store Coalitions (CIMS, DRS, AIMS) and the Music Business Association, BuzzAngle Music’s work with Record Store Day (for which it is an official sponsor) has provided greater visibility and advanced tools for physical and digital music retail analysis for independent record stores and their unique mix of inventory and sales, giving a voice to stores and data that have never been counted.
BuzzAngle Music provides a state-of-the-art music analytics service that will revolutionize the way businesses analyze music consumption and related trends. The system incorporates the daily sales, streaming and airplay activity of albums, songs and artists. BuzzAngle Music is currently in a limited beta test and has a planned public release in the summer of 2015.
Top 25 Albums sold on Record Store Day at record stores tracked by BuzzAngle Music (all RSD Exclusive Vinyl Releases except where noted):
1. Get Behind Me Satan – The White Stripes
2. No Life Til Leather* – Metallica
3. Bust No Moves – Run The Jewels
4. Changes – David Bowie
5. Meet Me In The City – The Black Keys
6. I Love You, Honeybear – Father John Misty
7. Touch Me I’m Dick – Citizen Dick
8. Alex Chilton – The Replacements
9. Untethered Moon – Built to Spill
10. Sheena is a Punk Rocker – Ramones & Husker Du
11. Songs From The Laundry Room – Foo Fighters
12. Kingdom Come – David Bowie/Tom Verlaine
13. Koncert V Praise – In Prague Live – Johnny Cash
14. Picaresque – The Decemberists
15. New Year’s 1995 Live at Madison Square Garden – Phish
16. The Message – Grandmaster Flash/Stiff Little Fingers
17. Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams
18. Sun Records Curated By Record Store Day Vol. 2 – Various Artists
19. Purple Haze/Freedom – Jimi Hendrix
20. R.I.P. Album – The Zombies
21. The Time Warp – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
22. Songs of Innocence – U2
23. Live From the Alabama Theatre – St. Paul and the Broken Bones
24. Have Some Fun: Live at Ungano’s – Stooges
25. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood – Neko Case
*Cassette
Source: http://www.buzzanglemusic.com/record-store-day-2015/
