Nielsen SoundScan International, the leading information system
that has tracked worldwide digital music sales since May 2005, has
added over-the-air full-track digital download (OTA) sales from a
number of mobile operators in Europe. OTA mobile downloads represent a
significant portion of digital sales in Europe and, in some countries,
the majority of digital sales. Most recently, Nielsen SoundScan
International has added OTA digital sales from Vodafone in Spain and
Ireland, 3 Mobile in Denmark and Sweden, TDC in Denmark and from
Telenor in Norway.
"We are very excited about working with the mobile operators and
adding over-the-air full-length download sales into our worldwide
tracking service," states Chris Muratore, Vice President of Retail
Relations for Nielsen Entertainment. "This is essential for Nielsen
SoundScan International and continues to provide our clients with the
most robust information possible on digital music sales in Europe."
In addition, Nielsen SoundScan International has added Napster,
eMusic, and Inprodicon as data providers. Napster is providing digital
download sales for the U.K. and Germany; eMusic is reporting in each
of the 14 countries it's operating in; and Inprodicon is the leading
distributor of digital music in the Nordic region, which provides data
on behalf of nearly 40 digital services in Denmark, Finland, Norway
and Sweden. With its extensive list of data providers from digital
services as well as from various leading mobile operators, Nielsen
SoundScan International data is the only comprehensive aggregation of
Pan-European digital music sales.
The addition of these new providers to its European reporting
panel, along with the existing providers such as iTunes, Sony Connect,
CDON, Free Record Shop, OD2, and its many affiliates, including MSN,
Virgin, MTV, and Tiscali, confirms Nielsen SoundScan International's
dominance as the most comprehensive digital music information system
worldwide. Nielsen SoundScan International currently tracks digital
sales data from more than more 170 download services and mobile
operators in 17 countries including; Austria, Belgium, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the
United Kingdom.
Since May 2005, Nielsen SoundScan International has monitored more
than 110 million downloaded tracks in Europe with 81 million occurring
in 2006. Shakira, Nelly Furtado, Madonna, Gnarls Barkley and Red Hot
Chili Peppers were the top 5 Pan-European selling artists in 2006.
Data from Nielsen SoundScan International's digital tracking system
comprises the only recognized Pan-European Digital Tracks Chart, which
has been featured weekly in both Music Week and Billboard magazines
since October 2005.
Nielsen SoundScan has been the exclusive data source for digital
music sales in North America since June 2003. In 2006, Nielsen
SoundScan reported nearly 600 million digital track sales in North
America, up from 359 million digital track sales in 2005.
2006 Top 20 Year-End Pan-European Digital Tracks Chart
(Week Ending: December 31, 2006)
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Artist Title
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1 Gnarls Barkley Crazy - Single Version
2 Shakira Hips Don't Lie (Featuring Wyclef
Jean)
3 Scissor Sisters I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
4 Snow Patrol Chasing Cars
5 Justin Timberlake Sexyback (main version - explicit)
6 Red Hot Chili Peppers Dani California (Album Version)
7 Rihanna Unfaithful
8 Nelly Furtado Maneater
9 James Morrison You Give Me Something
10 Christina Aguilera Ain't No Other Man
11 Mary J. Blige One
12 Orson No Tomorrow
13 Take That Patience
14 Nelly Furtado Promiscuous
15 Razorlight America
16 Pink Who Knew
17 Black Eyed Peas Pump It
18 Rihanna SOS
19 Pussycat Dolls Beep
20 Kelly Clarkson Because of You
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About Nielsen SoundScan:
Nielsen SoundScan International, a service of Nielsen
Entertainment, is the source authority for digital music sales
information and a sister service of Nielsen SoundScan.
Nielsen SoundScan is the source authority for retail music sales
information, aggregating sales data from more than 20,000 retailer
locations in the U.S., accounting for more than 20 million sales
transactions per week, representing more than 90% of retail music
product sales in the U.S. The weekly Billboard Magazine music charts
are based on Nielsen SoundScan information.
Nielsen Entertainment is comprised of the following businesses:
National Research Group (NRG), EDI and EDI International, Television
Services, SoundScan, Broadcast Data Systems (BDS), RingScan, Music
Control, VideoScan, Market Navigator, BookScan, BookData, and
Interactive Entertainment, and utilizes the full portfolio of sister
companies including Nielsen Media Research (television ratings) and
Nielsen Net Ratings (Internet usage) to deliver a whole media point of
view. Nielsen Entertainment is part of the Nielsen Company,
(www.nielsen.com), a global leader in information services for the
media and entertainment industries.