The changes to the Hot 100 will take place in the 8/11/07 issue. They've been running test charts all year long.

Historically, the Hot 100 formula has been roughly airplay (60%) and sales (40%). The new chart changes will adjust the chart back to it's more historic ratios.

Over the last year the chart had seen the ratio for airplay (40%-30%) and sales (60%-70%) change dramatically due to large digital growth in 2006 and 2007.

The breakout of the new Hot 100 formula will basically be airplay (55%), sales (40%) and on-demand streaming (5%).

Airplay will now include all BDS monitored stations regardless of whether they report to a specific format or not (it will also include the stations removed from the Country panel for not playing enough currents).

WTF is on-demand streaming?

Isn't the U.S. the only country that uses airplay as a factor in composing its chart? The Hot 100 should be based on sales, I think.

WTF? Why does Airplay even count for the main chart?

Billboard Hot 100 sucks and always will

i expected you guys to say that but i'm glad because alot of the R&B/Hip Hop Artist will benefit from this

lmao a 5% change

dont they already benefit from the current one?

i would have guess that uhm digital downloads should have been higher since that is the basic representation of us the audience... b/c airplay is basically just how much the artists pay the radio stations to play their songs IMO... but cool cool thanks for sharing

no, the old hot 100 formula was like

70-60% Digital
40% Airplay

the new formula is

60% Airplay
40% Digtal Downloads

uhm hello look @ all the top 10.. .you will mostly see R&B and Hip Hop there... it's rare to see pop / rock or anything else in there

I know, and there have been several rock songs that deserve to be in the top 5, but have been shut out.

Well i'm glad airplay matters more than digital

Well I guess the Hot 100 will look more like it did from like 2001-2004, which was just

and who does airplay usually help out... uhm oh yeah R&B and Hip Hop lmao os uhm does it really change things... uhm no lol... so are they going to restart all songs to 1 week or restart them like the way they did the canadian ones...????

That's terrible. Like some people said, Radio nowadays is all about how much you pay the radio stations to play your song. Argh.

I know that some songs will get screwed. Remember years ago when they did this and "Are You That Somebody?" ended up peaking at only 21? That had #1 written all over it.

So then Kelly Clarkson is broke?

^

So I guess Britney isn't getting to #1 with her debut, or any pop act for that matter.

Wow that's true and now Rihanna, Beyonce and all that pseudo R&B **** will take the charts over, I guess Britney and Christina will never have a hit in the US, ever

That is already happening, the music in US is death, sad sad situation