The 2nd country in the world to use this system, Sweden was first.

Today's Top 40 (click to see it) marks a new era for showing what the most popular music in Norway is. For the first time VG present an album saleslist which numbers included from the streaming services.

Co-working with WiMP:
Norway is the 2nd country in the world which uses this type of model for their official album charts.

For the first time in the 46-year long history of the album charts are the numbers not just based on what the public has bought of music,
but also what people actually listen to - on the streaming services Spotify and WiMP.

IFPI has found a way that keeps good track of the statistics.

- Streaming is now 67% of what the musical market of Norway consists of.
That's why it's 100% natural and right to include streaming on the albumcharts.
SOURCE (In Norwegian)

Streaming is huge in Scandinavia as you may know.
Norway's system of including streams is bigger and "better" than Sweden's as two streaming services are included.
They say this will represent Norway's musical "likes" even better than ever before.

Originally posted by Gagasm Ahead of the curve Sounds like a good idea

Originally posted by Tsuko How do they decide what an album stream is though? This seems like a silly question, but I can think of 5 or 6 different ways that they could classify an album stream in my head, and I'm sure if I think longer I'd come up with more. The way Spotify does it results in an inaccurate representation of what a popular album is imo (in the sense that an album with lots of hit singles will end up high in the album chart, so people like Pitbull and Flo Rida suddenly look like they have popular albums, which they don't).