Academic Charts Online

Academic Charts Online (ACO) is a groundbreaking research source, one that brings together for the first time, sound recording sales charts for a wide variety of music genres from around the world. Its search interface is intuitive and returns quickly-comprehensible results, which can in turn be manipulated in useful ways. There remain serious gaps in the product’s coverage, and the records it interrogates lack some crucial metadata that would make the search experience both more satisfying and more precise, but overall ACO provides a very solid value for the price.