Charts, Rankings and What the Numbers Actually Mean
BestMusic.News covers charts and rankings across all fifteen music families. We publish explanatory journalism about how music actually gets made, released and paid for, rather than press-release coverage of what came out this week.
We read charts as instruments rather than scoreboards. A position is the output of a methodology – a streams-to-sale ratio, a chart week, a bundling rule – and knowing the method is the difference between reporting a number and understanding it.
How we work
Articles here are written by Owen Fairhurst, who covers this beat for BestMusic.News. Pieces are researched and written rather than aggregated, and where a claim rests on a specific event, statistic or decision we check it against primary reporting before it publishes. We do not run articles built from a single aggregator.
We do not fabricate interviews, quotes or releases. If we have not spoken to someone, we do not imply that we have. Where a piece is analysis rather than reporting, it reads as analysis.
Who publishes this
BestMusic.News is part of the MW3.biz music network. MW3.biz connects independent and grassroots artists with music curators and publications, and supports artists self-managing their own careers. Coverage decisions here are editorial and are not determined by whether an artist has used that platform.
If you are an artist looking to promote a release, the platform is at mw3.biz.
