Brandon 457 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Not here for glamourizing streams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusKeepBreathin 19,311 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Surely this would have a minimal contribution; isn't it difficult to stream entire albums, let alone track listening habits? Well, here it is 1500 streams of one song equal an album sale. In the UK its 12 of most streamed tracks on an album / 1000 or of the 12 top tacks on an album 1000 streams equal and album sale. I don't know why there isn't a worldwide system in place to count streams like albums. It seams weird and even cheating a little. I think it gives British artists the chance to gloat a little more. It looks easier to achieve an album sale in UK than in the US. Ed Sheeran and Mark Ronson must be jumping for joy over this news. "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Martin Luther King Jr. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 680 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 It will have less impact on UK chart than Billboard, because they are downweighting the 2 most streamed songs to prevent big singles from having undue influence. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/revolution-for-uk-albums-chart-with-streams-now-counting-towards-position-10039470.html To make sure that big hit singles do not distort an album’s position in the Official Albums Chart, we are employing a method which involves taking the two most streamed tracks from every album and down-weighting their contribution towards the total album’s streams to the average of the rest. Once the streams across the 12 tracks we are counting are added up, they will then be divided by 1,000 to create an “album stream factor†– this is then added to sales of the album to make the total by which each album will be ranked. This 1,000 ratio has been used as it broadly reflects the difference in value between a stream and an album. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByeBye49 161 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Wow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CannaeDrive 3,412 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Meß :sweep: "Fame Is A Boomerang" - Maria Callas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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