Music Business Worldwide covered the announcement that Luminate will expand data collection and reporting of sales from independent record stores through new partnerships.
Music data company Luminate, which collects the data used in Billboard charts, has formed a new partnership with indie record store groups in an effort to diffuse a controversy over how it collects information on sales of physical music.
– Daniel Tencer, Music Business Worldwide
Under the new partnership, which launched on April 19, Luminate collects data on physical music sales, including vinyl, CDs and cassettes, from StreetPulse, a music data company that receives daily sales metrics directly from stores.
StreetPulse’s data will be incorporated into the physical sales data that Luminate is already collecting from other stores, allowing Luminate to “report more direct US independent music retail data than ever before,” the company said in a statement issued Wednesday (April 24).