Word: soundscan
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...group, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Until last year, the effect of that purchasing power was disguised by the sketchy oral reports drawn from record stores canvassed for the Billboard pop charts. But last year the charts began relying on SoundScan, a firm that compiles computerized bar-code information from cash registers. On the May 25 pop chart, the first based on the SoundScan data, 15 more country albums showed up in the Top 200. In 1984 the country category showed only eight gold (500,000 sales), four platinum (1 million sales) and seven multiplatinum (multimillion sales...