Entries by bossross

Weekly Register: The TEA Wave

Isn’t it fun to watch the “human wave” seemingly glide around the perimeter of a stadium as excited fans toss their arms up creating an energy that moves across the crowd with such ease and grace? […]

Weekly Register: Predicting An Up Year For Country

Happy 4th of July sales fans and welcome to this week’s half-year 2012 edition of the Weekly Register. Yes, we have passed the halfway mark for 2012 which makes the moment ripe for comparison and prognostication […]

Weekly Register: TEAs Troubling For Physical/Digital Transactions

As our colorful graph (and the purple bars) show, country’s TEA has been sliding slowly all year—until now. All genre TEA (golden bars) started edging up slowly last month, and continues to expand this month as well. So what does that tell us? To sum it up it says, the sales relationship between albums and digital singles is remaining constant, but let’s look a bit deeper.

Weekly Register: Are Faster Radio Charts Speeding Country Sales?

Country YTD album sales are up 5.8% this year, which compares nicely with the industry overall which is sporting a not-so-pretty deficit of -2.9%. Could country’s energetic showing be connected with a change in the speed which songs travel up and down the format’s radio charts?