[DOC] [TLE] The Accidental Chart Revolution : Pop music: Billboard's new ... [PAR] May 30, 1991|CHUCK PHILIPS | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES ... Shalett's system 
debuted in the May 25 issue of Billboard and immediately ... "We realized that 
there had never been an accurate method in the music business to track actual 
sales," Fine said. ... businesses--have used computerized accounting systems 
similar to... [DOC] [TLE] US Record Industry Sees Album Sales Sink to Historic ... - Billboard [PAR] Jul 6, 2016 ... It's the worst year (so far) for music sales since the 1991 debut of ... Hot 100  
Billboard 200  Charts ... Album sales, including track-equivalent albums (TEA, 
whereby 10 track sales ... You need more tweens to buy your crappy computer 
music! .... today's albums are way more expensive than they used to be. [DOC] [TLE] 25 Years Ago: The SoundScan Era Rocks the Music Industry [PAR] May 25, 2016 ... Billboard began tabulating album charts using SoundScan on May 25, 1991, ... 
On May 25, 1991, Billboard made a change to the Billboard 200 Top Albums, ... 
After decades of gathering numbers via a flawed honor system, the ... never been 
an accurate method in the music business to track actual sales... [DOC] [TLE] Drake's Views is the Purple Rain of 2016 on the Billboard 200. - Slate [PAR] Jun 23, 2016 ... Since late 2014, Billboard has combined traditional album sales ... still counts far 
more for the chart than does a track sale or a stream, ... If that isn't enough, they 
give proper credit to albums that would have thrived under the old system. ... '90s
debuting on Billboard's album chart in May 1991 and the Hot... [DOC] [TLE] Commerce Vs. Consumption: A Revolutionary Rethink Of Billboard's ... [PAR] Nov 25, 2014 ... For decades, the Billboard 200 album chart has measured one thing: the sale of 
albums. ... Honestly, it hasn't been a bad system  it serves as a proxy for artists' 
... In 1991, when Billboard teamed with Nielsen SoundScan to factor direct ... of 
an album project has used TEA math to boost its sales total. [DOC] [TLE] Soundscan Makes Business of Counting Hits - The New York Times [PAR] Aug 11, 1997 ... Mr. Shalett and his partner, Michael Fine, have proved to the recording ... Their 
system electronically tracks and tallies record sales every time an ... was begun 
in 1991, since it was not clear that anyone wanted the charts to better reflect 
reality. ... Soundscan receives payments from Billboard for exclusive... [DOC] [TLE] Billboard charts - Wikipedia [PAR] The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in 
the United ... For the Billboard 200 album chart, streams and track sales are 
included in ... the charts is which stations and stores are used; each musical 
genre has a core ... They were followed by the Hot 100 and the R&B chart in 
1991. Today... [DOC] [TLE] David Samuels Rap on Rap 1991 | New Republic [PAR] Nov 11, 1991 ... Replacing a haphazard system that relied on big-city record stores, Soundscan ... 
Within weeks the number of computed record sales leapt, ... 27 on the Billboard 
charts. ... Writers on the left have long viewed rap as the heartbeat of urban 
America, ... Since the early 1980s a tightly knit group of mostly young,... [DOC] [TLE] The Role of Technology Format on Billboard's Hot 100 Performance [PAR] Oct 5, 2016 ... Music, as an experience good, only has its true value revealed after its .... 
example, in 1991, when Billboard switched from a tally combining ranked ... 
activity and record sales into a single weekly chart of a track's ... 1973 which 
marked the first time Billboard used a computer to rank each week's selection,. [DOC] [TLE] Billboard  Wombat [PAR] Dec 26, 2013 ... Billboard Magazine has used several charts since May 15, 1948, ... With the 
October 20, 1958 issue Billboard Magazine started combining radio airplay and 
total sales ... and tracking the Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems are the

Question: Since 1991 the Billboard charts have used this computerized system to track sales
Answer: SoundScan