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Music News: Billboard 200 isn't changing (much)
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Billboard 200 isn't changing (much)
For the Billboard Top 200 (the album chart), they are no longer recognizing new releases. They are counting sales OVERALL, not just for one week! THAT means that if your album came out in January and it has sold 1.2 million copies and somebody releases an album today and it sells 500,000 this week, the January album will still be on top because it has sold more!
This is designed to show "the true best-sellers in the country".
They will have another chart called the Top Current Albums which will recognize new release positions.
Oh. my. GOD.
Billboard has announced changes in the methodology of the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, while a new sales survey, Folk Albums, will join Billboard's chart menu.
Effective with the 2010 chart year, which begins with the charts that will be refreshed on billboard.com Thursday, Nov. 26 (print issue dated Dec. 5), the Billboard 200 will shift from a currents-based ranking of the weekly top-selling albums in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, to an all-inclusive list of the top 200-selling albums, regardless of release date.
The Billboard 200 will continue to be a centerpiece of the chart menu on billboard.com and sister site billboard.biz. The latter site will also house the new Top Current Albums chart, which will implement the current/catalog criteria long utilized on the Billboard 200. That policy stipulates that an album that ranks below No. 100, is more than 18 months old and does not have a current charting single at radio is removed from that tally and other corresponding album charts on which it has appeared.
Full article at:
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/searc..._id=1004043310
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Member Since: 9/28/2009
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Are they f**king serious? What idiots! Billboard will now have the most ridiculous charts in the entire world: a flawed singles chart AND a flawed albums chart! how embarassing!
Looks like December albums will have zero chance of hitting #1 now.  Sorry Chris Brown!
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Member Since: 1/9/2005
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Originally posted by ItsKingsleyBitch
For the Billboard Top 200 (the album chart), they are no longer recognizing new releases. They are counting sales OVERALL, not just for one week! THAT means that if your album came out in January and it has sold 1.2 million copies and somebody releases an album today and it sells 500,000 this week, the January album will still be on top because it has sold more!
This is designed to show "the true best-sellers in the country".
They will have another chart called the Top Current Albums which will recognize new release positions.
Oh. my. GOD.
Billboard has announced changes in the methodology of the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, while a new sales survey, Folk Albums, will join Billboard's chart menu.
Effective with the 2010 chart year, which begins with the charts that will be refreshed on billboard.com Thursday, Nov. 26 (print issue dated Dec. 5), the Billboard 200 will shift from a currents-based ranking of the weekly top-selling albums in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, to an all-inclusive list of the top 200-selling albums, regardless of release date.
The Billboard 200 will continue to be a centerpiece of the chart menu on billboard.com and sister site billboard.biz. The latter site will also house the new Top Current Albums chart, which will implement the current/catalog criteria long utilized on the Billboard 200. That policy stipulates that an album that ranks below No. 100, is more than 18 months old and does not have a current charting single at radio is removed from that tally and other corresponding album charts on which it has appeared.
Full article at:
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/searc..._id=1004043310 |
and every year it will start over,right?
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Reminds me of Oricon a little bit.
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I dont like this idea  ...
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Member Since: 7/9/2009
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Originally posted by e_yal
and every year it will start over,right?
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It said something about 18 months?
All I know is...
This will definately make stan wars easier......
This is going to be horrible.
There will be no denying who is on top.
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LMAO. What a mess.
This just means that we're probably gonna have only like 3 #1 albums now.
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Boooo billboard boooooooooooo!!!!
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That's so ****ing ridiculous! Billboard got have been hacked, Please! The 200 is supposed to show what sold during the week, not what sold during a period... That's the most ridiculous thing EVER made by Billboard...
We will have a super boring chart after this rule get into effect, really, It's like some albums will dominate the chart during the whole year, like 3 or 5 album... So ****ING ridiculous!
Will this **** extend to Hot 100 also?
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They are trying to sabotage Rihsus first #1. Same **** they did to break Brits #1-streak.
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Just get a good album out in January and you'll stay on top for the rest of the period? This is insane? :S
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Member Since: 10/20/2008
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Originally posted by piepje3
Just get a good album out in January and you'll stay on top for the rest of the period? This is insane? :S
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Not necessarily, as January and February are viewed as the "dead" months in terms of record sales.
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Billboard started sucking after the site's new design debuted.
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Member Since: 3/25/2009
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Doesn't it just mean that it will include albums that atm are only eligable to chart on the catalogue chart, as in old albums?
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Member Since: 11/7/2009
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I think you guys are misinterpretating the article. For what I read Billboard is just saying that albums that were only allowed to chart in the Catalog Albums chart are now also allowed to chart on The 200 as it should show what's selling regardless of the date when it was released or if it's 18 months old, dropped 100th position, etc...
And they added that they will have a Top Current Albums, which will have the criteria of the old 200, where old albums that haven't dropped 100th position won't chart...
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I don't understand 
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Member Since: 2/26/2006
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Quote:
Originally posted by ItsKingsleyBitch
For the Billboard Top 200 (the album chart), they are no longer recognizing new releases. They are counting sales OVERALL, not just for one week! THAT means that if your album came out in January and it has sold 1.2 million copies and somebody releases an album today and it sells 500,000 this week, the January album will still be on top because it has sold more!
This is designed to show "the true best-sellers in the country".
They will have another chart called the Top Current Albums which will recognize new release positions.
Oh. my. GOD
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Where did you get this part? The article doesn't say anything about this.
The chart is gonna be still a weekly chart but current releases and Catalog albums are gonna be part of the same chart.
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Member Since: 1/9/2009
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Originally posted by licq
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Any album will be able to chart no matter how long ago it was released.
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Um, we should assassinate the Down Syndrome president of Billboard. 
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