Shaver was Vice President of Virgin Music Canada, Vice President – Marketing, “It’s an exciting time for rights holders and for our Syrtash, CMRRA Senior Vice-President – Business Affairs & Corporateĭevelopment. “We extend a warm welcome to Paul” said Veronica “It’s vital that CMRRA continues to lead theįor the music publishing community, the songwriters, and the overall music Undergoing significant global growth.” said Shaver. With the rapid evolution of technology positively impacting consumers’Ībility to engage with music, right now music “I’ve always been passionate about music and theĪrtistic process behind its creation. Passion for the business of music is the perfect fit for CMRRA as technologyĮvolves and music is accessed in different ways” “said SoundExchange Refining and expanding the services CMRRA provides the publishing community. He also more than doubled the number of monitored radio stations so publishersĪnd rights organizations would have 24/7 airplay monitoring. Publishers and the music industry at large. Shaver previously served as Vice President at NielsenĮntertainment Canada, where he was instrumental in the launch of the MusicĬonnect platform in Canada that provides improved data transparency to SoundExchange company, announced today that Paul Shaver has been named Our independent analytics firm, Alpha Data, formerly known as BuzzAngle Music, populates numbers each day into the RS Charts within a seven-hour processing period of each day's transactions, with a target availability in the system of 12 PM Eastern Time.”įive Finger Death Punch, A Decade of Destruction, Vol.Canada, Octo– The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd.
Because of the breadth of suppliers and their individual reporting time frames, chart data for the week as a whole should not be considered finalized until the following Monday, when Rolling Stone will announce the official week tallies. retailers and service producers, on a daily basis. “The Rolling Stone Charts publish song and album data, compiled from dozens of U.S. Here’s what Rolling Stone says about their metholdolgy: In the future, I’ll make sure that’s more clear. Given the interest we all have in some of these bigger records from the bands we love (and we ALL love Gojira, right?), I thought it’d be fun to do some closer tracking as we get up to the Monday reveal. One big distinction is that they are collecting and releasing data much earlier in the process, with initial numbers available midweek. While not “official,” these numbers tend to line up pretty evenly with traditional counts. As Stream N’ Destroy readers may/may not know, Rolling Stone entered the game in recent years with their new “Beta” charts, including their Artists 500 and Top 200 Albums. We’re accustomed to Music Connect ( the descendant of Nielsen Soundscan ) charts and weekly sales figures arriving on Monday/Tuesday. The final numbers will appear MON/TUE, as they have since I began this adventure with all of you. Those are ongoing calculations in the middle of the week, not final. I understand the confusion when “totals” for anticipated records in our scene, like Gojira and Royal Blood, show up on a WED as opposed to a MON/TUE.