Since April, 2010, the album and song sales positions have been and contributed to Intermedia by approximately 5,000 music sellers.

[8] The InterMedia news agency was founded in 1993, when Yevgeny Safronov, Alexander Shumsky and Dmitry Anoshin left the Turne agency to start a new project,[9] the main task of which was to provide the Russian media with the most objective and impartial news and analysis of media industry.

[15][16][17] For the first time in Russia, the news agency InterMedia began to seriously study the music market.

Many studies of the music market were published exclusively in the Kommersant and Argumenty i Fakty publications.

[18][19][20] Among the analytical works is a study of philharmonic activities in the field of academic music in the country by order of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (2010), as well as market research of concert and entertainment events in Moscow and St.