Yes, totally. These changes are horrendous. The Hot 100 should be based solely on two factors:

1. AirPlay (primarily)
2. Sales

Streaming shouldn't be included at all. Hits are on the radio, not computers. The inclusion of YouTube and Spotify make the charts a farce.

Yes. I didn't like the update before this one either, but at least it was still reasonable. Now it's just stupid.

No, they are just embracing the change in the music industry. Reducing the sales factor, since piracy is growing and increasing the streaming/digital pressence factor since it is a rapidly (and already huge) evolving one.

If anything is a joke, it's today's approach to music.

Kinda.

yea it is the new youtube thing is kinda messing it up HS could be number one forever now

+1. I like that it's changing with the times.

It wouldn't be that bad if only streaming was not that high and didn't include parodies of 30 sec. It's very unfair considering a song that short gets instant replay compared to videos with 3 mins mimimum length. It's like 10x faster to replay the song than official music videos. I mean even dial-up could do it w/ that duration and low quality videos.

Nope. People will be over it soon. As long as they keep decreasing airplay as a factor, it's a good thing. The YouTube thing is touchy...I think maybe only the official videos should count. I think they're moving in the right direction though. The music industry and how we listen to music has changed so much, and the charts should reflect that.

yes

Mediabase is starting to become the only chart that matters and is credible.

billboard has always been a mess and always changeing it don't represent the true succsses of a song I don't know why there's many that care about it and much sad to even represent as the most important chart

Yes. It's a shame because the idea was good but they ruined it when they decided to included 30 sec parodies of a "song" that most people probably haven't even heard in full

I've always been iffy about airplay because overtime it was never really much of an indication on popularity. This youtube **** wasn't well thought out and it could have been handled better but I'm really not mad. Sales and spotify (streaming) >>>.

It's a popularity chart, people.

Although people may only be watching the Harlem Shake videos because of the stupid **** people do, it's still popularizing the song, whether you agree or disagree.

Yes ;(

You guys don't really know anything about the Advertising world where songwriters are able to charge good money for just seconds of their song used and a lot of other things that represent how a song makes money, it's successful and the sort.

Today, the music we get now from labels is not intended to be free, every instance when a song is played represents its commercial success. The thing is that because you're so used to get music for free before even buying it, you take for granted how necessary those seconds of music are in your life.

Billboard is counting them, finally I must say, you still take music for granted.

And as money is made from advertisements in those parody videos, it still counts as part of the music industry.

D.E.A.L. W.I.T.H. I.T.

Still no.