About AeschTunes
AeschTunes is a blog dedicated to covering artists, bands, trends, and news in the music industry. The focus of AeschTunes is on music news; however, this blog tries very hard to avoid tabloid-type stories. Periodically, album and single reviews will also be included.
AeschTunes is maintained by Lesley Aeschliman, a married, stay-at-home mother of three; she is also a freelance writer. Lesley graduated from Eastern Washington University in 1996 with a B.A. in Radio-Television (and she also had some experience in college radio). Lesley is also a former internet radio broadcaster. As a freelance writer, Lesley serves as the Anime editor at BellaOnline.com, and has also had work published at Helium.com and at Associated Content.
Hi I ran across your blog after doing a search on album figures. Can you tell me how you get access to weekly album sales figures? Thank you for your time
Similar request: My son is a music producer, mostly hop hop. He currently has beats on a number of CDs including Chris Browns’s Exclusive, Fantasia’s Fantasia, Beanie Sigel’s Solution and Ludacris’s Release Therapy. I see that you post current sales for the top cds every week. Is there a site I can go to, or sign up with, that will allow me to get “current week” and “total sales” figures for the cds on which his music appears?
The information I post for weekly album sales comes from Billboard.com, where they post an article about the top ten, as well as debuts elsewhere on the weekly chart.
The entity that compiles the sales information is Soundscan. From what I’ve been told, you would have to pay Soundscan about $26,000/year in order to access their information.
Outside of that, I have no idea where you could acquire that kind of information and not have to pay an arm and a leg for it.
Have a nice day !
hi lesley,
nice site — i look forward to reading it more often. i am writing to see if you would like to receive promo music updates from me on the bands i am working with. i am currently pumping the new buddy guy album, a johnny cash remix project, the willie/wynton album and a new biography about sonic youth. please let me know if you have a direct email address i might send pictures, info, dates, streams, etc. to. thanks, john