In reply to Memo.

They should not be counting free streams in the first place! A lot of people are like me. They will listen to a new song out of curiousity from a popular artist freely on youtube. If youtube plays an add I mute it or better yet I'll have the 5 or 6 songs i plan to listen to and just download them to my youtube downloader and listen to them off there. People like Meme were arguing with me on this topic before trying to tell me that free streams do not count but obviously I was correct and this Billboard article proves that youtube and spotify free streams are being counted on their charts when people did not pay to listen to the songs.