Are you paying for your streaming ?

[BloodyJudas 2,758]

Is the new rule going to affect the chart positions that much? Is it a major change or just a minor one?What do you guys think? Is Gaga or Nicki going to profit out of it or to the contrary? I am interested to find out. 

[WildAmerican 13,672]

Thank God free Spotify users are being weighted less.

 

I use Apple Music's Student membership, and it's totally worth it. 

[Doot 2]

21 minutes ago, OBEY said:

Tomorrow, Billboard will give more weight to streams from people that are paying a monthly subscription. 

Are you paying for your streaming?

Yes sir. 

[PartySick 134,092]

16 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

$5 a month for Spotify Premium (student discount) 

My streams are superior to all you free users, bow down peasants

What

I'm going back to school soon so this is good to know 

OT: Yeah, I have Spotify premium and I subscribed to Amazon music for my grandmother's Alexa. They had that "three months of serve for 99 cents" sale which was perfect timing tbh 

[OBEY 57,107]

3 minutes ago, BloodyJudas said:

Is the new rule going to affect the chart positions that much? Is it a major change or just a minor one?What do you guys think? Is Gaga or Nicki going to profit out of it or to the contrary? I am interested to find out. 

from FRANZGA on the charts thread : 

so a 15M free streams which is at 10k SEA before will be lowered to ~5k, that's a very BIG difference considering there's a lot of album that is charting within the lower half of BB200 which sild near to nothing but still charting because of streaming. but of course not all of the streams are free..

[Morphine Prince 96,073]

2 minutes ago, PartySick said:

What

I'm going back to school soon so this is good to know 

All you need is a .edu email and you get the discount for a year

[Phoenix 17,395]

I dont stream unless when i watch videos on youtube

[SHALLOW 14,815]

19 minutes ago, TeenIdle said:

Well I paid 1$ for 3 months  Apart from that, no

Same, otherwise i subscribe to free trial of any streaming service

[PartySick 134,092]

5 minutes ago, OBEY said:

from FRANZGA on the charts thread : 

so a 15M free streams which is at 10k SEA before will be lowered to ~5k, that's a very BIG difference considering there's a lot of album that is charting within the lower half of BB200 which sild near to nothing but still charting because of streaming. but of course not all of the streams are free..

So...I'm sure the answer is simple but why can they not just have, idk, two separate charts? Do this whole deal and have a "Hot 100 Streams" chart and then do a legitimate chart that's only pure sales?

How do sales and streams both work on the same chart anyway? What's the exchange rate? How many streams is a sale? 

[OBEY 57,107]

6 minutes ago, PartySick said:

So...I'm sure the answer is simple but why can they not just have, idk, two separate charts? Do this whole deal and have a "Hot 100 Streams" chart and then do a legitimate chart that's only pure sales?

How do sales and streams both work on the same chart anyway? What's the exchange rate? How many streams is a sale? 

in 2013 it was : Generally speaking, our Hot 100 formula targets a ratio of sales (35-45%), airplay (30-40%) and streaming (20-30%)

but i think they lowered sales a bit and augmented streaming bc songs barely sell anything anymore.

there's more details in the charts section 

[Phoebe Buffay 12,525]

No, I have Spotify Premium for Free.

[Drin Lon 7,875]

15 minutes ago, PartySick said:

So...I'm sure the answer is simple but why can they not just have, idk, two separate charts? Do this whole deal and have a "Hot 100 Streams" chart and then do a legitimate chart that's only pure sales?

How do sales and streams both work on the same chart anyway? What's the exchange rate? How many streams is a sale? 

150 streams = 1 song sale, no?

1500 streams = 1 album sale

It should be sth like 300streams = 1 sale tho 

[Epione 10,896]

Yes, we have a Spotify family plan with my boyfriend. 

Gaga sis needs those streams.

[LetsGetHigh 52,683]

Yeah. It's just so much easier.

[Teal Ambition 47,805]

Yup, I have the 5$/month student deal with Spotify. I also buy physical copies of my favourite albums.