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Originally posted by c0caine
Billboard is meant to show the popularity of an album/song so if streaming is what the majority uses right now to listen to music than it's more than natural that it was included  |
I don't have a problem with streaming itself. It's just the way they're diluting the purpose of that chart. Selling 1 album means selling 1 album. Nothing about the 1000 streams = 1 album is logical. Because an album is...was...and always will be an album. Ya know?
It's kind of like, if this rule had been incorporated when G.I.R.L came out. It probably would have out charted BEYONCÉ due to the one song "Happy". When, in reality, no one knows any other songs on G.I.R.L., while all of Self-Titled is pretty well known as a unit. So it made sense on the album charts that ST was shown to be a more popular album. While Happy was obviously bigger than any ST single and the singles charts reflected that.
I know that charts exist to perpetuate their self-importance, so I'm not too surprised. I just don't understand the logical leap between a popular streamed song and a popular album. At least they do a good job of separating pure sales from SPS.
