Billboard charts to add more weight to free streams

[Teletubby 165,470]

Beginning in January, Billboard will update its chart methodology to narrow the ratio between paid/subscription streams and ad-supported streams from 1:2.5 to 1:1.5. The move follows Billboard and Luminate’s annual review of streaming revenue data used to inform methodology for the Billboard 200, Hot 100 and other album and song consumption charts, as well as streaming songs rankings.

Currently:
each album consumption unit equals one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Effective for the Billboard 200 and corresponding genre album consumption charts dated Jan. 16
1 album unit = 1,500 free (ad-supported) or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand streams

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[JohnPokerface 1,814]

Ok it's time to release LG8 

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 32,822]

41 minutes ago, JohnPokerface said:

Ok it's time to release TS27 and its variants

Fixed, in an attempt to be more realistic

Edited Monday at 03:42 PM by AVeryGagaHolyDick

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 32,822]

So streams count as sales and sales count as streams? 

[Lucas 32,159]

This will only increase fraud and manipulation on charts and make them ever more irrelevant.

[southpaw773 4,510]

What if you only listened to 7 out of 10  or 9 out of 10 tracks how does that count for an album 

Edited Monday at 04:48 PM by southpaw773

[Teletubby 165,470]

15 minutes ago, southpaw773 said:

What if you only listened to 7 out of 10  or 9 out of 10 tracks how does that count for an album 

It doesn't matter, you can even listen just to 1 song. 10 tracks is for tracks sales on iTunes, Amazon...

[bxr 3,944]

Working class digital denizens rise up! Recession Pop indication station! 

[gagzus 28,049]

Given the fact Gaga always ends up in the top 5 overall artists when she releases a new album now this is GREAT it means her music has higher chance of charting on the Hot 100 higher.