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# Tunecore CEO Jeff Price Takes On Soundscan
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/tunecore-ceo-jeff-price-takes-on-soundscan/
- Published: 2010-01-15T09:46:01.000Z
- Updated: 2010-01-15T09:46:01.000Z
- Description: "In 1991, Soundscan launched and shook up the music industry by electronically tracking and reporting weekly music sales based on information reported to it from music retail stores across the. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/01/tunecore-ceo-jeff-price-takes-on-soundscan.html]
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[![Jeff Price](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2012876d9c7ab970c-200wi "Jeff Price")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2012876d9c7ab970c-pi?ref=hypebot.com) "In 1991, **Soundscan launched and shook up the music industry**by electronically tracking and **reporting weekly music sales** based on information reported to it from music retail stores across the country…"  

"Labels, managers and artists **used the data** to leverage MTV, commercial radio, get more record into retail stores, **justify marketing and tour budgets**, get gigs, create other marketing opportunities or alternately decide that a record was dead."

**"It's time to get a new system"** 

"…TuneCore Arists like Nevershoutnever, Boyce Avenue, Secondhand Serenade, Kelly, Harry & The Potters, Jesus Culture, and Colt Ford literally sell hundreds of thousands of songs spread over multiple EPs, full length albums and singles. **Should a band that sells 500,000 songs in one month spread across multiple releases be thought of as less successful than a band that sells 50,000 copies of an album in one month?** What about gig and merchandise income?" 

"And **what about the arbitrary concept of looking at a weeks worth of sales,** why not a days, or a months, or a years? Things are moving much faster. More music is being recorded and released. Music buyers are moving faster too. Seems to me that th**e age-old concept of weekly album sales has lost its relevancy**."

"It’s **time to get a new system** that more accurately reflects the new 'IT' and this time, its important not to consolidate the power of the reporting into the hands of one company."

– Jeff Price on the [Tunecore blog](http://blog.tunecore.com/2010/01/neilsen-says-tunecore-is-responsible-for-100-of-the-music-releases-in-2009-and-oh-yeah-we-are-a-majo.html?ref=hypebot.com#more)