Billboard may begin to add YouTube streams to the album chart (HDD)

[Stef 61,598]

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John Amato may have been gone since July, but Billboard hasn’t seen an end to the cluster**** around its chart calculations. The 6ix9ine-Travis Scott kerfuffle brought a lot to the surface about the Bible’s chart difficulties, notably the lack of transparency among certain entities reporting to Nielsen. The rules of engagement are not the same for all as regards capped streams, with SoundCloud by far the worst offender.

Meanwhile, YouTube will probably end up reporting video streams (though not views of user-generated content) to the album chart, weighted in a way that’s comparable to Spotify’s ad-supported tier. Many in the industry are concerned that Lyor will jack the algo to juke his cronies’ chart stats, but there’s also considerable scuttlebutt that he’s probably out. In any event, many wonder how Team Bible continues to get manipulated so easily...

Source: http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=315080&title=I.B.-BAD-TAKES-ON-FAKE-NEWS

[Stef 61,598]

Ariana's camp found rejoicing  

[Ella Chalcedony 429]

[TSUNAMI 21,021]

Oh god no!

Quality over Quality, PLEASE!

 

Count in the things that have value - things that people buy, not stream for free!

[Luke78619 23,356]

No, a bland song can have a dope ass video, so people will watch for the video only. Not for the song

[FfFfFfFF 56,108]

Well it may be a bit misleading in analyzing the success of one album, but those songs are audio that belongs to that album so it does make sense for them to count it so I don't know.

[Regina George 59,387]

Why not? Maybe this will make some artists actually work harder on their music videos and maybe it’ll bring back good old creative videos.. Let me remind you that one of the biggest reasons BR is so popular is it’s video that was groundbreaking at the time and still is 

ALSO I’d only count the actual music video views - not audio views. 

[Admin 24,441]

It makes sense. A lot of people listen to music on YouTube and there's no reason their views shouldn't be counted.

I wish this was the rule in 2009. "Bad Romance" would be number one for like 5 weeks.

[River 117,363]

It could make a negative reality for example a song that everyone laughs at and it's actually a horrible song.

Like let's take Friday - Rebecca Black, with this rule, this song would be #1 for a few weeks in a row and at  top 10 for months, but not because it's the most popular song, but because it became a joke, the majority didn't like it actually.

[weed 73,938]

hmm. I don't think they should. Maybe the official audio video, but that's it imo.. music video views = album sales? idk

[Ferrara 122]

Latinos will take over the charts then.

[Monster7 5,697]

Then get ready for reggaeton and trap to dominate the charts (even more) 

[Regina George 59,387]

1 minute ago, River said:

It could make a negative reality for example a song that everyone laughs at and it's actually a horrible song.

Like let's take Friday - Rebecca Black, with this rule, this song would be #1 for a few weeks in a row and at  top 10 for months, but not because it's the most popular song, but because it became a joke, the majority didn't like it actually.

But people still stream the song and listen to it - no matter the reason.. It’s the same thing with Spotify.. Some people stream songs only because they are funny or something but it’s still streaming and it still brings money to artists. 

[AlexanderMagno 10,746]

I listen to Youtube more than I listen to Spotify, so I guess I support this? But there are so many different videos from the same song, and the album count will always be a reach.

6 minutes ago, River said:

It could make a negative reality for example a song that everyone laughs at and it's actually a horrible song.

Like let's take Friday - Rebecca Black, with this rule, this song would be #1 for a few weeks in a row and at  top 10 for months, but not because it's the most popular song, but because it became a joke, the majority didn't like it actually.

But how is that a negative reality when charts were always about the number of times a song is listened? The charts are not indicative of good songs or what songs people like the most, they tell us which songs are the most listened to. Popularity = what people are listening to the most right now. Whether that's a joke or not.

[River 117,363]

1 minute ago, AlexanderMagno said:

I listen to Youtube more than I listen to Spotify, so I guess I support this? But there are so many different videos from the same song, and the album count will always be a reach.

But how is that a negative reality when charts were always about the number of times a song is listened? The charts are not indicative of good songs or what songs people like the most, they tell us which songs are the most listened to. Popularity = what people are listening to the most right now. Either that's a joke or not.

 

2 minutes ago, ReginaGeorge said:

But people still stream the song and listen to it - no matter the reason.. It’s the same thing with Spotify.. Some people stream songs only because they are funny or something but it’s still streaming and it still brings money to artists. 

Because it's more a case of viral/meme video than actually a big hit that people request on the radio, let's see compare to it's sales actually.

I don't want to get to the point that a funny of a person says "banana" will be #1 while songs that many people worked on for months will barely enter top 10..

@DiscoHeaven23 do you have the sales and chart positions of Friday?