How SoundScan’s debut in the early ‘90s turned the music world on its head, transforming the charts from guesses into real data.

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For a certain breed of rock snob, the chart dip experienced by Sting’s January ’91 solo album Soul Cages—from no. 22 to no. 56 in that same span—was far more amusing, as the former frontman for ’80s new wave giants the Police was already exuding a certain classic-rock pompousness.

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