Hypebot covered the new announcement from Music Business Association and Luminate on new data collection and reporting for indie album sales.
A coalition of independent recorded music business retail and trade groups have partnered with data providers Luminate and Street Pulse to improve the physical sales data that drives Billboard’s indie charts.
– Bruce Houghton, Hypebot
At the end of last year, Luminate ignored the pleas of retailers and ended its longstanding practice of using a weighted data model to track sales. That meant that by some estimates, as much as 95% of all independent store sales were going unreported.