YouTube streams will finally be included in the totals of the weekly Billboard 200 albums chart.
Billboard announced the change is scheduled to go into effect on January 3, 2020. Previously, streams from the Google-owned platform were only factored into the Billboard Hot 100 and other song-related charts but never for the albums chart.
“As the steward of the definitive charts that uphold the industry’s measurement of music consumption, our goal is to continually respond and accurately reflect the changing landscape of the music,” Billboard-The Hollywood Reporter Media Group president Deanna Brown said.
She noted, “Our decision to add YouTube and other video streaming data to our album charts reflects the continuing evolution of the music consumption market and the ways in which consumers connect to album-related content.”
As part of the change, licensed video content from outlets such as Apple, Spotify, TIDAL and VEVO will also be counted for the Billboard 200. The addition of video to the calculations will also be reflected in Billboard’s genre album charts.
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Translation, the recording industry is dying and they’re using anyway possible to make it seem like it’s not.
How sad. That means, expect more click bait shit “artists”. Back in time, good music had to actually SELL to make money and he popular. Now it just needs to be clicked, meaning people like Bhad Babie and Tekashi 69 are the future for top selling artists…. How fucked up this is becoming…
I don’t like pirates. do you seriously think something, more particularly, a track with a music video is legal? unless vevo has something to do with it. same goes for porn, which I am now three years clean. people are breaking the law and they don’t even know it.
lol. why did you feel the need to mention that you’ve been clean from porn for three years?
they didnt do this already smh
How easy is it to hire a group of people and each use multiple devices to click away?
Great more fake numbers
Terrible records = Terrible sales. CLICK ON THAT!