From Billboard Streaming Songs Chart
http://www.billboard.com/biz/charts/streaming-songs

Streaming Songs


Hot 100 is now comprised of 3 main components

1) Hot 100 Airplay
2) Hot Digital Songs
3) Streaming Songs (which is comprised of

----------------------On-Demand Songs (Spotify/Rhapsody/Muve etc...)
----------------------Passive Streaming / online radio
----------------------Youtube views

We don't know the weight of each Streaming Songs components. Before, On-Demand is weighted twice as much as Passive Streaming. Maybe the weight is 2 on-demand = 1 passive streaming = 1 Youtube view.



Top Streaming Songs this week:
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...vamped-hot-100

1. Harlem Shake ----103 million
2. Thrift Shop ----------10.1 million
3. Started from the Bottom ----5.5 millions
4. "Scream & Shout - 4.8 million

7. Stay - 3.9 million

10. "I Knew You Were Trouble - 2.8 million

12. When I Was Your Man - 2.6 million

19. Suit & Tie - 2 million

The weight of the 3 main component (for a TYPICAL WEEK) is detailed by Billboard editor-in-chief below.

(an untypical week is one where #1 is 10 times bigger than #2. For example:

#1: 100 million streams
#2: 10 million streams

#1: 2,000,000 downloads
#2: 200,000 downloads

#1: 1 billion Nielsen AI impression
#2: 100 million Nielsen AI impression )




Some tweets from Bill Werde:

The new #Hot100 has a target chart ratio of sales (35-45%), airplay (30-40%) and streaming (20-30%). These change based on platform volume.

So you can see, on a typical week, @YouTube streams are part of a 20-35% slice that also includes spotify, rdio, Vevo (thru YouTube) etc.

The YouTube data--like all #Hot100 data--is US only. YouTube de-spams for bots & data irregularities, and we do too, as on all data sources.

We happened to launch @youtube data on a week when @baauer was having a truly, singularly historic run on YouTube. It dwarfed PSY peaks.

I'm glad the chart finally reflects a phenomenon like the #HarlemShake properly. Its scale is scary huge.

Me: @bwerde Was there a reason for picking this week in particular? It seems arbitrary to us "outsiders," as I'm sure your mentions have shown.
Bill: @KurtTrowbridge yes: it was ready.

OMG what the **** lol.

The new #Hot100 has a target chart ratio of sales (35-45%), airplay (30-40%) and streaming (20-30%). These change based on platform volume.

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emphasize on the "these change based on platform volume" because that is the key. On a typical week, the ratio is sales (35-45%), airplay (30-40%) and streaming (20-30%). In an untypical week like the week after Christmas with all the gift cards, sales volume will increase and it is very likely that sales might make up 60% of the chart that week.

In an untypical week with a viral hit, streaming will comprise much larger than 20-30%.




Gangnam Style at its peak probably did 25-30 million a week in Youtube views in the USA. According to Billboard, Harlem Shake is much much bigger.

We happened to launch @youtube data on a week when @baauer was having a truly, singularly historic run on YouTube. It dwarfed PSY peaks.

I'm glad the chart finally reflects a phenomenon like the #HarlemShake properly. Its scale is scary huge.

BB belittling the achievements of GS. GS, which has an OFFICIAL video that reached, uh, just a billion YouTube views.

Utterly vile of them.

Loving the new tweaks. It really reflects how music pans out these days.

The new rules sucks. Billboard sucks. And.. with these rules some people will never get hits it was already hard to get radio support... And on top of that it will be the same people getting number ones.

Are the top youtube songs posted somewhere?

Are last.fm numbers counted?

Ye, but GS pulled those views for its own video which is 4m long, where as HS pulling those numbers over 30 sec clips of bazillion parodies. That's the only flaw.

Streaming Songs has been here for awhile. They just started publishing it officially. Even when people we re talking about On Demand Songs last year, Passive Streaming was always counted too.

Right, and then you got to add in the GS parodies too. Have those numbers been revealed? Seems like people are comparing the GS video vs the HS parodies but forgetting about the GS parodies.

Before

Streaming Songs, which is comprised of
----------------------On-Demand Songs (Spotify/Rhapsody/Muve etc...)
----------------------Passive Streaming / online radio

Now,

Streaming Songs (which is comprised of

----------------------On-Demand Songs (Spotify/Rhapsody/Muve etc...)
----------------------Passive Streaming / online radio
----------------------Youtube views

BIG DIFFERENCE between before and after. Why? Because Youtube is much more popular than Spotify/Rhapsody/Muve music. Many times more views per week compare to Spotify.

Lol @ Harlem Shake
Scream & Shout tho