The Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA) and BuzzAngle Music have teamed up to bring the first-ever independent-only music sales and streaming charts to Canada, through the innovative technology of BuzzAngle Music.
Harnessing BuzzAngle Music’s comprehensive music data reporting technology, these new charts, the first of which was released yesterday, will provide real-time, up-to-date data on the performance of releases from Canada’s independent music industry.
The Top 20 Canadian Album chart along with the Top 40 International Album chart will be published on a weekly basis via CIMA’s website. CIMA and BuzzAngle Music are both keen to point out that this is the first time that Canada will have an exclusive chart that puts the spotlight squarely on the strength of Canada’s domestic-owned independent music industry.
What do you think of the new charts? Should we start using them here? Let us know in the comments below.
huh. so the New Pornographers have switched record labels again.
that explains why I haven’t seen it on eMusic yet
Good morning!
at some point I should give that Lydia Ainsworth a proper listening. I’ve been off of electronic stuff lately
Hi.
good morning peeps!
@krib again? their last 5 albums, covering 11 years, were with Matador covering 11 years
Hello! The Canadian Indie music chart is interesting, though I’d prefer if I could listen to it instead of read it
Um, in the US, maybe?
They were on Mint until Challengers, when they switched to Last Gang.
That chart in the blog post says Concord Records for this one, although 7digital says Dine Alone Records
from 2007
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/new_pornographers_leave_mint_sign_to_last
@Janet, I would love us to have a chart podcast but we don’t have the funds to produce one
see if you can spot the language error in this review. It’s subtle
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/the_new_pornographers-whiteout_conditions
looks like Concord took over from Matador for US release, and Dine Alone in Canada
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/four_firsts_for_the_new_pornographers_on_seventh_album_whiteout_conditions
@krib
The list according to wikipedia
2000 Mass Romantic Label: Mint
2003 Electric Version Label: Mint/Matador
2005 Twin Cinema Label: Mint/Matador
2007 Challengers Label: Matador’
2010 Together Label: Matador
2014 Brill Bruisers Label: Matador
2017 Whiteout Conditions Label: Concord Music Group
yep. that’s the American-centric look at it
They were on Last Gang in Canada for Challengers, Together, and Brill Bruisers
I haven’t heard of Concord Music Group. Wonder who else is with them?
whoa…they’re huge. A collection of a whole bunch of smaller labels
I wonder if it is worth pointing that out to CIMA
@Garf I know resources are limited, and I’m so glad to have a place to go at all, but a chart without a way to listen to the top 20 albums, just seems like a list to me.
krib, got it. But I had to attack the text a second time. There’s also a spot where I’d like to see a plural, but…
@janet – That might be something to look at. Making a playlist to go along with it.
There are a lot of artists I don’t know on that list. I wonder how they come up with it. Lists are often without much weight for me but can be entertaining.
Hi everybody. I popped into work for a bit but I don’t think I am going to last. My body is rebelling. Now on top of the swollen leg, stasis dermatitis, infection, psoriasis, itching all over I have a cold too. It may be trying to tell me something.
@DBS From their own site
“The CIMA 20 chart is the top 20 Canadian independent artists’ album packages which includes sales, downloads and streams within the Canadian market.”
I read that but it doesn’t tell me how they break it down and weigh it in. Know what I mean? It’s all good. The chart is interesting. It’s all lists that I wonder how they come up with it.
I know it is a different chart but the official UK chart might give us an idea
“The first to take on board audio streams was the Official Singles Chart from the beginning of July 2014 – with 100 audio streams (drawn from services such as Spotify, Deezer, Napster and O2 Tracks, among others) equating to 1 single purchase.”
Billboard’s New Math: 1,500 Streams = One Album Sale according to NME in 2015
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2014/11/20/billboards-new-math-1500-streams-one-album-sale/
“Digital tracks, called Track Equivalent Albums (TEAs), equate 10 digital track sales from an album to 1 equivalent album sale, and on-demand streams, called Stream Equivalent Albums (SEAs), equate 1,500 song streams from an album to 1 equivalent album sale.”
from FYI Music when the Canadian Albums chart became the Billboard Canadian Albums chart in 2015
http://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2015/10/28/canadian-albums-chart-now-includes-demand-streaming-data
It all adds up to somebody is listening to them maybe you should check them out. 😉
@DBS, More or less, yeah. I would ask CIMA what the breakdown is but I was ignored when I contacted them soon after these charts were announced.
Does that mean CIMA will support Canadian indie music, but not Canadian indie music blogs?
It probably just means my email went to spam (or my question was really stupid)
I bet it wasn’t that stupid, it’s probably in a spam folder somewhere 🙂
It was just after they first announced this was happening and I asked if they had any idea on dates and if the information in the charts could be shared on blogs
I am being informed that it is past my bedtime so I must bid you all a good night
Good night garf.