Whats with Billboard Changing chart rules randomly? Now twice in two Months?

This sounds sketchy!

Airplay hopefully has less of a factor based on the new rules when compared to sales. Sales should become more significant not less.

I like this!

Nah, We Found Love and Take Care have done pretty well on Spotify. In fact, they said without the new rule, Take Care would still be sitting just outside the top ten.

Not only that, but Turn Me On and Starships have done pretty well too. I can see this actually helping Nicki out in the long run.

Also meaning, We Found Love would have stayed in, and Starships would have gone top 5.

But I think Urban is fine. And Rihanna is (kind of) an urban crossover artist, so she should be fine too. It's the other girls like Katy and Gaga that concern me.

EDIT: Also, You Da One would have fallen off completely, rather than jumping more than 20 spaces from the 90s into the 70s.

what's next? last fm scrobbling?

wouldn't be surprised.

That would be amazing tho. But we will also see who has zero social life and playing their faves current single over and over 24/7

I think something like this will happen eventually. The problem is there is no way to accurately track scrobbles from the U.S.

The Last fm staff is always finding new ways to keep visitors, so I wouldn't be surprised if they set up charts for each country. That way, Billboard would track that and include it in their equation. They can also find a way to track the radio thing on there.

Zune and something else are coming in the upcoming weeks.

does this mean SFTTR and SLY are going to fall of the chart pretty fast

SFTTR is still high in airplay & sales and wasn't too affected by the change. Neither was SLY. SLY is falling on iTunes anyway.