Charts Discussion - Pre-order 'A Star Is Born' soundtrack!

[Arizona Sky 10,913]

7 minutes ago, DeanWinchester said:

posting gif not for shade but simply to say how surreal this is that Gaga would be the second highest. of course Adele is not in this set but still

Fraudness should be below 50k though. without the tour bundle.

[South Blonde 5,445]

1 minute ago, BloodyMonster said:

Fraudness should be below 50k though. without the tour bundle.

Do we know that?  

[StarstruckIllusion 41,924]

9 minutes ago, DeanWinchester said:

posting gif not for shade but simply to say how surreal this is that Gaga would be the second highest. of course Adele is not in this set but still

I don’t get this obsession over pure sales. The money from streams are supposed to be just as good. This isn’t some fan conspiracy, the music industry officials made this change. Why isn’t it officially recognized as much as it should?

[Arizona Sky 10,913]

3 minutes ago, South Blonde said:

Do we know that?  

Yes.

[South Blonde 5,445]

2 minutes ago, BloodyMonster said:

Yes.

Below 50k? That's tragic...

Thank you for the info 

[Babel 40,887]

21 minutes ago, Wigless said:

I don’t get this obsession over pure sales. The money from streams are supposed to be just as good. This isn’t some fan conspiracy, the music industry officials made this change. Why isn’t it officially recognized as much as it should?

Counting streaming would place them at the very bottom still 

Even Cheek to Cheek outsold

[ViviLittleM 3]

36 minutes ago, GagaStefi said:

I read on Twitter that there’s gonna be a new billboard rule that helps pop girls... does anyone know anything about that?

maybe this https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8427967/billboard-changes-streaming-weighting-hot-100-billboard-200

[HitTheBoat 4,077]

Reminder to not expect a Original Score nod for ASIB:

"So there are awards for original score and original song. But whither the category to honor musicals and their "song scores"? No such award has been given since Prince won for "Purple Rain" more than 30 years ago." - LA Times

The Academy only nominates instrumental-based scores.

In La La Land's case, half the album was instrumental (even more if you disregard the x1293939 versions of "City of Stars")

[giskardsb 12,565]

48 minutes ago, Wigless said:

I don’t get this obsession over pure sales. The money from streams are supposed to be just as good. This isn’t some fan conspiracy, the music industry officials made this change. Why isn’t it officially recognized as much as it should?

Artists make virtually nothing from streaming. They get screwed. 

[emig09 24,701]

Latin Queen is coming honeys

19 +5 Thalía, Natti Natasha - No Me Acuerdo (Official Video) 3,640,875

 

 

[Arturo 40,746]

Why is Delicate becoming the 2nd biggest song from Reputation? I love it but I seriously though the era was dead after End Game bombed with Ed and Future on it. It's been a while since a 4th single was bigger than the 2nd and 3rd.

[StarstruckIllusion 41,924]

1 hour ago, giskardsb said:

Artists make virtually nothing from streaming. They get screwed. 

Yeah, but the nothings are actually something, that can be added together, to equal one stream. You think the people behind this move didn’t think this through? If anyone has brought up an actual legitimate big problem from them, we’d be back to pure sales by now 

[Ray of Light 8,134]

1 hour ago, emig09 said:

Latin Queen is coming honeys

19 +5 Thalía, Natti Natasha - No Me Acuerdo (Official Video) 3,640,875

 

 

God bless Tommy 

 

[Slovakialop 2,258]

25 minutes ago, Arturo said:

Why is Delicate becoming the 2nd biggest song from Reputation? I love it but I seriously though the era was dead after End Game bombed with Ed and Future on it. It's been a while since a 4th single was bigger than the 2nd and 3rd.

New Rules, the sixth single from the album "Dua Lipa", says hello

[ryanripley 86,575]

1 hour ago, Wigless said:

I don’t get this obsession over pure sales. The money from streams are supposed to be just as good. This isn’t some fan conspiracy, the music industry officials made this change. Why isn’t it officially recognized as much as it should?

what? maybe if you're an international popstar

to earn minimum wage on spotify you need 380k streams on spotify/2.4m on YT/230k on AM

an unsigned artist only needs to shift 105 album sales to make minimum wage from their own pocket/148 on bandcamp/1,126 on itunes if they're signed

here's a bigger version that compares sales and streams

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