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Music Industry Data
Formerly known as Academic Charts Online, Music Industry Data is a growing repository of historical and current data which facilitates research into Popular Music by offering chart data for international pop music albums and singles (under exclusive academic licence from Billboard, Official Chart Company, GfK Entertainment and over 30 countries around the world). Sophisticated tools allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions at the touch of a button. Listen to audio samples for each track and album quickly and easily.

RPM Weekly (online full text, 1964-2000)
"RPM's pages fully document 36 years of the music industry in Canada. In its pages can be found information about recording studios and changes in radio formats and programming ideas. RPM documents the emergence, growth, merger and dissolution of various large and small record companies and follows the evolution of formats from the 45-rpm disk, through the LP, the 8-track and the cassette, to compact discs."