CIMA Relaunches Weekly Indie Charts

The CIMA 20 chart ranks the top 20 Canadian artist album packages and The CIMA 40 ranks Canadian and international album packages.

By FYI Staff

CIMA, in partnership with BuzzAngle Music, has resumed publishing weekly Canadian independent-only music charts, the CIMA 20 and CIMA 40.

The CIMA 20 chart ranks the top 20 Canadian artist album packages and The CIMA 40 ranks Canadian and international album packages.

The two charts represent the market success of independent artists in Canada, by ranking their current album packages encompassing music sales, downloads and streams.

Link here to view both.

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