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Why didn't my sales report?

Single only reports sales that adhere to Luminate's stated rules. See the full list of exclusion reasons below

Exclusion Reasons Defined

  • Point of Sale: The order was generated via the POS Shopify sales channel, therefore Single is not allowed to report it

  • Reporting Disabled: Reporting type "None" was specified for the digital album during setup in Single

  • Missing Report IDs: The digital album was published without a UPC

  • Excluded Product Type Bundle: The album product included merchandise, making it ineligible for reporting

  • Price Range: The album price did not meet the Billboard minimum of $7.99

  • Report Date Updated: While originally set to report during this chart week, the release date was changed and therefore the sale was removed

  • Refund: The order was refunded in Shopify

  • Quantity: The order included 10 or more copies of the same UPC, which means it was automatically excluded from Luminate reports

  • Bulk Sale: Each customer is allowed to purchase 4 physical albums and 1 digital album per week. Sales here were removed for bulk because purchases exceed these limits, based on customer shipping address, billing address or email address

  • Early Fulfillment: Physical sales may ship no earlier than Tuesday before a Friday release. This total represents sales that shipped prior to this and were therefore excluded

  • Email: There was no customer email address associated with the order

  • Email Invalid: Orders excluded because customer email addresses failed validation through 3rd party service Zero Bounce

  • Manual: This represents sales excluded manually by the Single team by request of Luminate

  • Unredeemed: Digital albums which have not yet been downloaded by fans and are therefore not yet eligible for charting

  • Not Shipped: Physical sales excluded from our reports based on lack of shipped status update from the carrier

  • Invalid Tracking: Physical orders which lack a tracking number are excluded from our sales reporting

  • High Risk Order: These sales are deemed "high risk" by Shopify's fraud analysis system, and are therefore excluded from charting

  • High Risk Connection: Sales excluded based on Shopify's determination that they were placed via a VPN or Proxy

  • Business Card: These sales were placed via a business / commercial credit card rather than a consumer card, and are therefore excluded

Which country do my sales count in?

Chart eligibility follows the fan's location, not where your store is based — with one extra requirement for physical sales:

  • Digital sales are reported strictly based on the fan's location, regardless of where the shop or fulfillment is located.

  • Physical sales must also ship from the right place. For Billboard (Luminate), the shop / fulfillment center must be in the US or Canada. For OCC, UK and Ireland purchases must be fulfilled from the UK, and France purchases require a fulfillment center based in the EU.

Chart territories: Luminate (Billboard) = US, OCC = UK / Ireland / France, ARIA = Australia, FIMI = Italy.

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