Redstreak 6,653 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Now Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan, the agency that supplies its data, will start adding streams and downloads of tracks to the formula behind the Billboard 200, which, since 1956 has functioned as the music world’s weekly scorecard. It is the biggest change since 1991, when the magazine began using hard sales data from SoundScan, a revolutionary change in a music industry that had long based its charts on highly fudgeable surveys of record stores. The new chart, covering sales and listening from Monday to Nov. 30, will be revealed on Billboard’s website on Dec. 4 and published in print in its Dec. 13 issue. Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard’s director of charts, said that by looking at streams as well as sales, the new chart will more accurately reflect how people listen to music these days. One expected result is that albums by big pop stars  which tend to open high on the chart and then plunge after just a few weeks  should linger longer in the upper rungs. Ariana Grande’s “My Everything,†for example, which opened at No. 1 in September, was No. 36 on last week’s chart, with 10,000 sales. Under the new formula, it would have been No. 9. SoundScan and Billboard will count 1,500 song streams from services like Spotify, Beats Music, Rdio, Rhapsody and Google Play as equivalent to an album sale. For the first time, they will also count “track equivalent albums† a common industry yardstick of 10 downloads of individual tracks  as part of the formula for album rankings on the Billboard 200. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/business/media/billboard-changing-the-charts-will-count-streaming-services-.html?src=twr&_r=1 Take a moment to think of just flexibility, love, and trust~ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Rose 1,475 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Welp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 95,012 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Good for Ariana I guess If you see me posting like crazy, I'm either bored or procrastinating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaanBTW 5,238 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Looks like Billboard supports Spotify inspite of Taylor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Life 118,907 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Watch Cheek to Cheek fall off the top 200 next week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo 326 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 My queen Nicki is about to very well. Bring on The Pinkprint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haroon 49,685 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Ooooh interesting I guess this will cushion the freefall of most front-loaded albums I wonder how much this will affect artists that don't allow access to their music via streaming sites like Spotify Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disregard 50 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 So basically it is meaningless, good to know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 102,434 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 This is good though right? Looks like Taylor's team will have to put her catalog back up on Spotify if they want to stay #1 longer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
inuborg 4,136 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 It is the biggest change since 1991, 1-9-9-1 my time has come I root for you. I love you. You, you, you, you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespertine 3 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 :fthis: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunk96 2,526 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 So basically it is meaningless, good to know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hola Soraya 4,350 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 ¿Tú me estás hablando en inglés? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry 26,836 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Not entirely sure how I feel about this. I also don't really understand how the streaming part works. "SoundScan and Billboard will count 1,500 song streams from services like Spotify, Beats Music, Rdio, Rhapsody and Google Play as equivalent to an album sale." Does this mean 1500 streams of ANY song from the album counts as one song? So even if an album has a popular single but doesn't sell well - i.e. Ariana as mentioned in the article - it will remain high on the chart? Does that really reflect the popularity of the album though? Hmm... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariano 958 Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 This is good though right? Looks like Taylor's team will have to put her catalog back up on Spotify if they want to stay #1 longer. they won't and they could be less bothered by a meaningless chart. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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