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MUSHROOMHEAD's Record Label Disputes SOUNDSCAN First-Week Numbers

September 27, 2006

MUSHROOMHEAD's record label, Megaforce Records, has issued a press release stating that the group's new album, "Savior Sorrow", has sold 26,084 copies in the United States in its first week of release — far more than the 12,183 number reported by Nielsen SoundScan, according to influential music trade Hits Daily Double and record company estimates. "But the controversy over sales numbers this week is the talk of the music industry with many questions and doubts being raised about the accuracy of sales computing methods, most notably Billboard's Soundscan," the press release reads.

"On September 26, SoundScan alerted all paid subscribers via e-mail that the numbers for the week may be inaccurate and that they will 'extrapolate' for the missing sales data and to 'please [be] advised that there may be anomalies in the data for the week ending 9/24/06.' SoundScan did not indicate who did not report this week, so everyone's is in the dark. Data seems to indicate SoundScan did not accept Best Buy's sales data, but SoundScan would not give out this information.

"According to Megaforce sales data, MUSHROOMHEAD seems to have sold closer to the Hits Daily Double number of 26,000 units than SoundScan's reporting of 12,183. How could there be such a shortfall in reporting?

"On a side note, Megaforce pays over $26,000 a year to receive sales numbers from SoundScan. Shouldn't it be SoundScan's job to report the actual sales numbers, not a guessing game? This industry, according to SoundScan, has been down in recent years, but who can you believe anymore?"

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