Yes. I've said this time and time again. It's the only factor in the H100 that the consumer has NO control over.The H100 is meant to convey the most popular songs in the nation for the given week, which would entail the songs most demanded by the public. Streaming and sales are able to measure this. Radio airplay for which the public has no control or power over does not. It's an outdated method of measurement and should be removed from the formula.

NO

Yes. Delete it fat.

Nope.

but the formula needs to be changed:

33.33% Streaming
33.33% Sales
33.33% Airplay

All components should be equal, I think it's only fair.

Absolutely

No. They should probably tweak it a bit and work on coming up with a more accurate way of measuring radio audience, but TONS of people's sole source of current music is the radio, so eliminating that from a current music popularity chart would be ridiculous.

Yes. Radio plays what it wants to play therefor it shouldn't be such a determining factor in the popularity chart that is the Hot 100. It makes no sense that a song can be in the top 30 on iTunes and have good streaming numbers but really low on the hot 100 because of radio play being non existent for it.

Too many radio deals, yes.

No.Radio plays a huge part in song success.
And don't talk about payola because thousands of fans stream videos/songs multiply times to get their fave a higher position.

Obviously yes

This!!!

Most demanded isn't the same thing as most popular.

Besides, even if it was, radio plays what tests well, meaning that people DO have an influence on what plays on the radio, even if they influence it less directly than they influence sales and streaming.

No, more like streaming needs to go.

Yes, it's too easy to manipulate radio from an industry stand point. It's not a true reflection on what's popular at the moment. It also slows down charts a lot too, a song could be past it's peak on sales and streaming, but still not peaked yet on the radio. Most people complain that songs are over played on radio because of this.

No.

No. The Hot 100 should convey the most popular songs, week to week. Radio, sales, and streaming are all NECESSARY pieces. Most of the GP thinks what they hear on the radio is the most popular songs -- the Hot 100 should reflect that, as popular has to do with how many people know it along with how much they like it. Knowing it is reflected by radio and liking it is reflected by streaming and sales. Simple as that, really.

I'm pretty sure streaming is actually the last thing to die down for a popular song. Hence why so many urban hits stay in the Top 10 forever even though their airplay has already peaked/was never that big to begin with.

So lets say a song is the most played on any given Top 40 station, but is selling next to nothing and has poor streaming numbers. People obviously do not like it. But does that mean it's a popular song? That just doesn't make any sense, hence why we should follow suit and eliminate it from the H100.

Good point.