[Patricia]

Billboard is such a mess Rihanna is going to break a bunch of records

[QueenBeyoncé]

parody videos? Single Ladies would have stayed at number 1 for months on top of months


This still is a mess.

[Airhead]

Bieber will be getting his first no1 soon.

[nintendude666]

So is this like, 1 view = 1 download?

[Jeiboy]

If Rihanna passes Mariah Carey's 18 #1s I wouldnt consider all of those as #1 worthy tbh.

[Britney Is Fierce]

OMG, now Madonna can enter the Hot 100 more easily!

[supaspaz]

What is the point of this?

[Kang.]

****ing stupid.

...

...go Rih I guess.

[Cannabis]

Wait is for real? Now parodies counts?
This will benefit Gaga a lot

[Hunter_13]

Bieber gonna benefit from this so much.

[theo.]

Now all stans have to do is upload a ton of lyric videos

[Eaten By Lions]

Originally posted by Global Icon

You have this thing called an IP address. Nielsen knows which ones to include and which ones not to.

I didn't think that was in the article so that's why I was questioning but now I just read that it.

The OP should have bolded it.

[Dephira]

I really don't understand why everyone is taking issue with this. Youtube views are obviously a great measure of popularity. If I like a song nowadays, I either listen to it on spotify, or watch it on Youtube and send that to my friends. Everyone's always crying about how radio counts too much and now that they're counteracting that, you aren't satisfied either? Besides, we don't even know how much views count yet...

[JungleDisturbia]

Originally posted by SAFEYEAA

What? YouTube videos? This is what the music industry is coming to?
Why should we even buy music then if we can just listen to it on YouTube I guess?
Absolute joke.
UK Top 40>>>>>

YouTube has played an integral part in the music industry for a couple of years now, so it was only a matter of time before YouTube counted towards the charts. That being said, this is so crazy. It sounds like everyone can easily have a #1 song now, when usually they would be stuck around ~15.

Not sure if this is a good thing.

[Willy.]

Super Bass could've went #1

[Legend ReX]

"Charlie Bit My Finger" coming for fingers AND wigs.

[Attitude]

This is just ****ing stupid. Bye Billboard.

[Fruity]

For sure Psy would have benefited because some of his weeks were extremely close and even his American views would be millions a day.

But let's not get carried away with the whole "this or that would've been #1 with this rule"

We have little idea of the weighting now tbh. Although from this week's changes it seems pretty significant.

[Kang.]

Harlem Shake is not even a song wtf.

[Gagasm]

Originally posted by Dephira

I really don't understand why everyone is taking issue with this. Youtube views are obviously a great measure of popularity. If I like a song nowadays, I either listen to it on spotify, or watch it on Youtube and send that to my friends. Everyone's always crying about how radio counts too much and now that they're counteracting that, you aren't satisfied either? Besides, we don't even know how much views count yet...

Basically. Everyone should be ecstatic w/ how their faves rack in the YT views. + w/ streaming it goes to show what the people are interested in, whereas we don't have much control over radio.