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# Tunecore Adds Charts, Offers Impressive Sales Stats
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/tunecore-adds-charts-offers-impressive-sales-stats/
- Published: 2010-05-07T04:15:49.000Z
- Updated: 2010-05-07T04:15:49.000Z
- Description: Flat fee digital distributor TuneCore has added a weekly Top 20 Artists chart and Top 20 Songs chart compiled from iTunes daily trend reports. Along with the announcement came come. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/05/tunecore-adds-charts-offers-impressive-sales-stats.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Indie Music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:59

Flat fee digital distributor TuneCore has [added](http://blog.tunecore.com/2010/05/charting-the-uncharted.html?ref=hypebot.com) a weekly Top 20 Artists chart and Top 20 Songs chart compiled from iTunes daily trend reports. Along with the announcement came come i[nteresting stats](http://blog.tunecore.com/2010/05/charting-the-uncharted.html?ref=hypebot.com) from 2009 that show how TuneCore's popularity and hint at the potential for independent sales.

- **65 million songs** were sold or streamed by TuneCore artists over all outlet
- **$35 million** in gross music sales were generated
- **26,230,308 songs**, or about 40% of all sales
- **1,470,502 albums**, or about 2.3% of all sales
- **37,475,907 streams**, or about 57% of all sales

[![image from tunecore.typepad.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20133ed606fa4970b-450wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20133ed606fa4970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

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Rock was was the top genre for paid album downloads selling 16% of all digital album sales, followed by Alternative (13.5%) and then HipHop (12.2%) 

**% Of Song Download Sales By Genre**

[![image from tunecore.typepad.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2013480941143970c-450wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2013480941143970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

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