Are my sales figures reported to the Billboard charts (Nielsen SoundScan)?
We do not report download statistics to any third party at the present time. The primary reason for this is that SoundScan (and therefore the Billboard charts, etc.) require music to be bar-coded with a UPC label and ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) numbers. We feel that if we require all music to be submitted with UPC and ISRC, a significant number of musicians will be deterred from using indietorrent.org. While ISRC codes do not carry a monetary cost, there are considerable monetary costs associated with obtaining the UPC codes, and both code vendors have a monopoly on their respective industries. (Why don’t we make including the codes optional? Continue reading…) Additionally, the RIAA is the only agency in the United States with the authority to assign ISRC codes, or grant other organizations the authority to do so. Because the RIAA is a criminal organization that extorts money from innocent people (see How the RIAA Litigation Process Works), we are reluctant to integ
