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Search
Search
Basic search: Enter a keyword to find matches in ALL fields: artist, album title, and single title.
Date search: Go straight to a specific chart by putting in a date, then selecting a country and chart from that country.
Advanced search: Enter a keyword to go straight to results for only that field, or find a specific chart date.
A date search like no other
A date search like no other
Selecting a recording will show its sales pattern for months or years on either side of the date. View the story of each recording with MusicID's infographics.
Results
Results
Three tabs: There are three tabs, artist, album, single. Click each to view results for that field.
Click the checkboxes to select as many results as you’d like in a single tab, then click NEXT.
Left sidebar:
Left sidebar:
Left sidebar
Left sidebar
Navigate your search results using the left side menu.
Change format: Click Albums or Singles to change between those results
Source countries: Available source countries for your search are listed here. Click a country to view its available charts (whether you see album charts or singles charts will depend on the format you selected above)
Peak positions: Below the list of countries, you can limit your results by peak position, e.g. Top 10, Top 20, etc.
Export: Save a spreadsheet of the results you are viewing with “export data”
Want to know how far back in time a particular chart goes? Click “View ranking inception dates” to view a master list of our sources
Chart date: when viewing a single chart day, you can navigate forward or back a week here.
Main window
Main window
Here you can see the main data from your search.
Sorting your results
The default view is chronological
Click the head of a column to reorder your results by that field.
Artist, Label, First Charted Date, Most Recent Position, Peak Position, Weeks in Chart, Total Stream Count (Spotify, since 2018), Chart Name, Country.
Show on graph: Click the checkbox next to a title to display that item on the graph
Click the checkbox in the header to select all
Add to clipboard: Add items to your clipboard to save for later or combine with other searches by clicking the + next to the title
Once you add an item to the clipboard, it will appear in the lower right corner
Click “view on a new graph” to see a graph of everything on your clipboard
Go to source chart: click on the name of the chart to view the date a title first charted
Research folders: Create, edit, and view your research folders in the footer menu
Main window:
Main window:
Graphs
Graphs
Default view: By default, graphs are shown chronologically, for all time
The date range being displayed is in the top right corner
The range is also shown along the X axis at the bottom of the image.
Drag the orange bars to change the date range
Hover over a point on a line to see more information.
Zoom: Select an area of a graph to zoom in and limit the time frame
To zoom all the way out, click “All” in the upper left (highlighted below with a blue box)
Zoom in along the Y access by limiting the ranking positions
Chronological view vs. absolute: You can view items chronologically or superimpose them as absolute values by clicking the “Sales Ranking” and “Absolute” buttons, respectively (highlighted above with a blue box).
Save your graph to a jpeg with the “Export Graph” button (also indicated in the blue box above)
World events: To see what was happening in the world at the time a record was in the chart, hover over a year beneath the image and click to open a summary of world events.
Combine searches: Use the clipboard to make graphs of items from multiple searches
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