SoundScan 
Tracking Retail Sales

Here is the address to get your music listed with SoundScan:

For SoundScan (tracks retail sales through stores who subscribe to Soundscan, which they claim is 85% of all retailers), send a copy of each retail format (cassette, CD, vinyl, etc). Each format must have its own unique bar code on the package.

SoundScan
220 North Central Park Avenue
Hartsdale, NY 10530
914.328.9100

It is free to have your music listed with SoundScan, but they charge to retrieve the data. All major labels subscribe to both BDS and SoundScan. Got a friend at a label who can pull your info for free?




SoundScan

SoundScan is a complete management information system that functions as a central clearinghouse of information for and about the music industry. Record labels can now access accurate sales information almost as soon as their product flies out of the stores. Labels can now better forecast how a product is going to perform in a particular store or market. Retail sales are monitored on a store-by-store basis. Over 80% of record stores are now supplying sales data to SoundScan. SoundScan's sales information is used by Billboard to compile most of its charts.: its singles chart are compiled with inform' aUon taken from SoundScan and BDS radio detections. This accurate sales information can help record labels analyze when records are being bought in areas with a high ethnic concentration or a significant economic character.