![]() ![]() To release LPs from American and English stars there was still one way for Melodiya which was using a loophole. Of course, it was possible for them to license international albums, but it was rarely done as these would conclude on releases too expensive for the local market. The state arguably approved more music from Italy, France and other parts of Europe than the US and other English speaking countries.Īnother reason for the lack of western releases is that Melodiya wasn’t the copyright owner of these products. There are several reasons for this and censorship is definitely one of them. ![]() More often than not did international artists get only one or two albums released, if any at all. Naturally, the only way for foreign acts to sell music there was through Melodiya. A vast majority of these were sold locally. This label was among the world’s largest in terms of volume with 100-200 million records shipped on a yearly basis in the 70’s and 80’s. State owned label Melodiya had a monopoly on all legal music sales from the mid 60’s until the USSR dissolved in 1991. ![]() Get ready for some heavy surprises as the USSR market looked like none other. If you go through various online sites covering music sales, you’ll find close to no information at all about the best selling artists in the USSR and Russia.Ī black box up to this day, we digged through the data of this market and identified receipts covering over 100 million unit sales. ![]()
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