I'm confused. Why is everyone thinking that the CMA rule has been removed? What happened on this week's chart that is making people worried?
WDYM?, I'll Show You and Perfect are all lower than they should have been. Especially the fact that I'll Show You is behind Watch Me is just not possible with CMA sales counted.
Removing CMA for those 3 songs fits perfectly and it can't be a coincidence that everything that is weird this week is with songs from the 2 big album releases.
Hello lost nearly 100k downloads, comparing Kworb to BB, on last week's chart due to CMA. So that along with the pre-sales will hopefully lessen her download losses. And she should start gaining again next week.
So i guess SOL will almost definitely be #11 tomorrow
But do you think SOL has better chances for TOP 10 next week?
I think that it definitely has ..... especially over 679 ..... their sales gap + airplay gap will get bigger + SOL is having nice streaming increase (video is getting more views than almost ever + it is rising on spotify again + AMAs performance has 600K pure US views)
Hello lost nearly 100k downloads, comparing Kworb to BB, on last week's chart due to CMA. So that along with the pre-sales will hopefully lessen her download losses. And she should start gaining again next week.
It would be really ****** if its streak breaks because of the rule-changes regarding 'Complete My Album'. Adele is far ahead of Bieber in the sales department and her airplay lead is in the 75-100 million range. Let's hope Billboard did the right thing.
One question: what is the streaming difference between "Hello" and "Sorry"?
It would be really ****** if its streak breaks because of the rule-changes regarding 'Complete My Album'. Adele is far ahead of Bieber in the sales department and her airplay lead is in the 75-100 million range. Let's hope Billboard did the right thing.
One question: what is the streaming difference between "Hello" and "Sorry"?
Hello 34.7 million last week, Sorry 26.5 million last week. Both should go up this week, but I expect the difference to stay roughly the same.
Justin Bieber ties for the second-longest leading No. 1 on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart (dated Dec. 5) as “Sorry” rules for a fifth straight frame. The cut equals the run of 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Amnesia,” which also reigned for five weeks from July 2014 - February 2015.
Justin Bieber ties for the second-longest leading No. 1 on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart (dated Dec. 5) as “Sorry” rules for a fifth straight frame. The cut equals the run of 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Amnesia,” which also reigned for five weeks from July 2014 - February 2015.
Kings 5SoS and bieber, I suppose.
Nothing against Bieber, but his higher number of Twitter followers reflects his popularity among younger people who are more into social media. I'm sure Adele's number of Twitter followers has surged in the last six weeks, but given her proportion of followers over age 50, who are much less likely to use Twitter, she'll never approach his number of followers. This is the case even though she's a much bigger artist, so the number of Twitter followers and the performance of a video on the Twitter chart isn't really an accurate way to gauge an artist's popularity.