Monday and Tuesday.

Kiii

YES!

yasss ready for some changed release dates

and what is the point of this

To coincide with music releases. Currently, most music is released on Monday/Tuesday while Nielsen tracks those sales and streams from Monday through Sunday. The period is being changed to reflect the new Friday release date.

Who do you mean?

Taylor Swift is going to release her collaboration song with Beyoncé produced by Jay-Z & Timberland

The article contradicts what they said. They clearly stated that they could track airplay in real time. If that's the case why have it be different than the other charts?

BEYONCÉ's impact is just too much

The airplay reasoning makes no sense to me. If you can get airplay information in realtime, then why not make the charts uniform reporting wise. It makes no sense to continue the tradition of having mismatch airplay/sales-streaming weeks.

Additionally, I would argue that radio airplay should be relegated to TV status where it is not an actual Hot 100 chart component but we know it can fuel streaming and sales activity. I think we are at a point now where we really should be using only streaming and sales for the purpose of the HOT 100 and genre related charts TBQH.

Streaming and sales are user generated measures of popularity. Radio Airplay is at best someone deciding for people what they think they'd like vs what people are actually listening to when left to their own devices. Statistics show that people listen to the radio 2/3s of the time for traffic updates.

Streaming and Sales doesn't have record labels and buying influence the way radio does in the form radio deals where the record company pays stations to play songs every hour on the hour for a certain amount of time. The HOT 100 and other Billboard Charts should be democratized and modernized further now that we have better and more accurate data on the popularity of music.

I would also argue that the audience numbers for radio are skewed way too high for what people are actually listening to. I don't believe there are 100's of millions of radio listeners for a single track on the HOT 100.

Streaming services limit the impact one person can have on the charts and can track if people actually played more than a few seconds of it before moving onto the next thing. Radio Airplay in particular AM/FM radio does not provide this level detail and accuracy and simply can't at this point in time.

Actually, the problem is sales & streaming. Since they publish the chart on Monday, they want to use the most recent Airplay numbers (the ones on Sunday)
It takes them few days to get all the sales and streaming numbers from all the different retailers and services, that's why they need those extra days.

Radio should be removed from the HOT 100.

OMG

Anyone that thinks radioplay should be factored out of the Hot 100 doesn't realize the impact it has on the vast number of music-listening Americans as opposed to the small number of music-buying Americans.

I get they want to limit #1 debuts but they should have just made the charts uniform.

Here for this

I definitely get where you're coming from here, but I don't think that just because it's played on the radio means it is popular. Think of a random song and imagine if no one is buying/listening to it willingly, but it's being played on the hour on the radio. To me, it doesn't make sense to say that such a process indicates that a song is successful.