If ever there was any doubt that new times are nigh, it was dispelled last week when it was revealed that the Billboard 200 would now include streams in its chart methodology.
Now, less than seven days later, it has been announced that sister chart – the Billboard Hot 100 – will also be experiencing change.
Find out how it’ll affect singles moving forward below…
Per Billboard:
Effective this week, the methodology for the Hot 100, along with Billboard’s genre hybrid songs charts, has changed slightly to rebalance desired chart ratios for sales, airplay and streaming, as the chart’s streaming component has often been above its desired average ratio, and download sales noticeably below, in recent weeks. Such adjustments to these multi-data pool charts are common (and have been implemented on the Hot 100 when, for example, sales had increased exponentially).
Translation?
The mathematics are being adjusted to skew slightly more in favour of sales and radio airplay. Why? Because, streaming numbers are growing so fast that had the previous system stayed in place, chart placements would run risk of leaning too heavily towards streams.
Consider this a move in the the opposite of the direction of Billboard 200.
One has to wonder if this was actioned as a response to the backlash re the album tally. Whatever the case, it’s an interesting development nonetheless.
Oh how quickly things change…
This is going to be interesting actually. Love the sound of it.
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Congrats to Tinashe “2 On” is officially certified platinum! 🙂
but what about that album 🙂 lol that hoeee is a one hit wonder
Platinum? you serious?
Woooow okay.. *mouth open*
FLOP
your a sevyn stan tinashe is more known than that biiitttch lol sevyn opened up for kmichelle out of all people
Real life struggle. Hope she doesn’t get dropped after the tour.
Girl Stop your s***! ^
Platinum? I think u mean tinfoil
lmao damn
Ok now come back to us once the album sells 60k hahaha
but Kelly flopland highest selling album is 600k and that’s her only certified album and she got DROPPED from her label lmaooooooo
She’s still young artist. Her label will still keep her and see what else she’s got to offer in the future.
wow, thats awesome!! HAPPYY FOR HER.
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Not trying to be mean but i dont think there is anything interesting about her. Yeah she is pretty but what else is there?!? I rather her do tv or movies or even model. She is just like rita ora to mean pretty but nothing to it. But they constantly push rita down our throats like she has platinum albums and movies already. They dont have longevity
Billboard is over
I see @Beyrihliyah is still mad after I dragged it’s fave in its own post 🙁 Sad thing is that all you got is “thumbs downing” people never “drags.” And not you, the same person who was talking about how great she is and how great her album is lol like don’t drag anyone’s work when you already complimented on it.
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@MollyFromTheBigComfyCouch you sick, s******* turd. Why are you following me on Twitter? Please stay begging people to follow you and please look for a day job because this ain’t cutting it for ya! Which your flip flopping having àss.
HASHTAG: #JustToRemindYall #IamLIVING ; )
she is a flop bitttttch what made me not like tinaslutt is her little fans on twitter be starting shittt
Now you’re making excuses lol BYE!
Remain clinging on an established but THIEF of an artist while I cling on new artists like Tinashe because of course I could just talk about established artists that I am a fan of instead of repping new artists.
She’s a rising artists. a rising star. You are literally stupid.
tinawho? will be done by next year she’s replaceable she’s disposable
The same person that you’re so steam pressed about 😀 Look go outside and find some friends a remain clinging.
You don’t know anything about Tinashe if you ‘re saying she’s replace able and disposable
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well Blank space is number 1:)
LMAO! You are the only positive person on this site.
Haha thanks.)
I still don’t understand why the count radio spins since people can set up clear channel deals.
Why include radio at all?
IGGY did not always have top selling CD when she was #1 ON Billboard.
Payola helped her stay at #1.
That doesn’t make sense.
She’s a rising artists. A rising star. You are literally stupid.
@BeyRihLiyah
It’ll be interesting to see who will drop off and who will stay. Poor Uggly and the rest of those singles artist. But on the bright side, their albums will do SLIGHTLY better. #R8 #SlayingSoon
I’m still not here for the streamings being added to album sales. It’s B.S. and reductive.
Let people who flop, flop and those who are real album sellers (ex. Taylor Swift, Pink) slay with real sales. This is only helping artists like Rihanna that struggle for multi-platinum status.
Oh well. I guess the lessors need to be given a second chance….
I so agree. We all know one thing that the Navy can do is Stream their asses off. Rihanna is the Queen of YouTube and now I wouldn’t even be surprised if she does 1M first week because of those streams.
Neither would I be impressed.
I hate Bilboard, let them flop, don’t save these mediocre artists from the embarrassment.
Hmmmmmmm, I guess I don’t follow charts or whatnot so I could care less…….
It should be like back in the late 90s and early 00s, with radio counting for 70%+ of the Hot 100 tally. Hits are on the radio, not computers and phones.
Well when radio plays the same 6 songs every hour….
Katy Perry is somewhere laughing her b*** off, baking mini muffins and creating a new payola account for Hot 97.
Billboard operates like a headless chicken. They don’t know what to do or how to do it. Every other month they’re announcing some nonsensical change in their formula; trying to keep up with the industry — as opposed to using their influence and power to be better shape it. If Billboard said no more iTunes, and that only CD singles count as sales, labels would start manufacturing more jewel cases.
That being said, I’m not all that mad at THIS change. Streaming is stupid and shouldn’t be factored in at all. What matters is radio and retail.
I completely agree the music industry is in a low place and these constant changes aren’t helping they need to come up with a formula and stick to it. I don’t think streaming should count for albums, singles I don’t mind because No one uses the radio anymore so streaming is a good indication of what songs are popular not radioplay .
I hate this change, Although it can help or hurt those with real talent
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YASSSS! Payola! Payola! Payola! Radio deals are going to be intact! The NEW payola deal is CLEAR CHANNEL! They just changed the name. Payola sounded too “criminal like”… Anyways, get those number 1 hits people! Mother Mariah & Papa Tommy taught EVERYONE well on how to utilize payola to its full potential! Cheers Dahhhhlings!
I´m tired of that example. Everybody used or uses it. Artists who are supposed to be at their peaks like Katy Perry and artists who despite using it still flop (JLo and her Live it Up). Everybody. Or almost everybody.
Again? Another change? What a joke. They changed it a year ago already. And after touching the Billboard 200 which was the only decent chart left… industry is dead and #1 hits don´t mean anything. It´s so easy to break these “invented” records nowadays.
Of late, Billboard has been doing too much, but I’m actually not mad at this change. They can’t use raw data for the Hot 100 b/c one of the three components — sales, airplay, or streams — could literally overwhelm the other two mathematically. They have to periodically re-calibrate the formula.
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Now, that mess they just did to the Billboard 200 was stupid. The BB 200 is supposed to measure album sales as a format — how many people bought albums as albums. Streams should not be a factor.