Chart News: New UK albums chart, starting from March 1.

Lein

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The first Official Albums Chart to incorporate streams will come into effect on the week beginning February 23, with the full Top 100 announced on Sunday, March 1 on OfficialCharts.com.

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The Official Albums Chart was born in 1956, with the first artist to claim the top spot being Frank Sinatra’s Songs For Swinging Lovers in the summer of that year. Since then, the chart has reflected Number 1s by artists as wide ranging as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, Abba, Pink Floyd, The Smiths, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, New Order, Oasis, Take That, Eminem, Rihanna and Adele.

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Official Charts will take the 12 most streamed tracks from the standard version of the album, the top two songs will be down-weighted in line with the average of the rest. The total of these streams will be divided by 1000 and added to the physical and digital sales of the album (the 1,000 ratio is used to reflect the broad difference in value between a track stream and the price paid for an album).

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The reason for the down-weighting is to ensure that if an album features up to two runaway hit singles, streams of these tracks do not skew the performance of their parent album in the Official Albums Chart. Extreme examples of this include huge hits such as Blurred Lines, Get Lucky on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, All Of Me on John Legend’s album Love In The Future, or Uptown Funk.

For more: http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...rst-time-3479/

popmusic

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Royal Culture

This sounds like a slightly better version of the BB 200

Lein

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Originally posted by popmusic

AP honey

I didn't see any info or a link in the other thread, whatever

UNNAMI

that could be better idea than Billboard 200.

so mark ronsons has in U.S. 9k sold albums and 31k from singles, so how this would on billboard if this formula would be used there?

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Originally posted by Lein

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Adonis

I actually think the sales only method is better than this. I don't think there should be down weighting of anything. The fact of the matter is that the more popular songs will get more plays. Picking the top two most played songs is random and arbitrary at best...It's not really an accurate representation of the data. I'm of the belief that there needs to be a renewed interest in the single.