Album: Title - EP
#3 Singapore
#5 Australia
#5 Denmark
#6 New Zealand
#7 United States
#14 Sweden
#15 South Africa
#21 Canada
#21 Norway
#24 Indonesia
#33 Mexico
#49 Hong Kong
#62 Spain
#96 France
#102 Japan
#105 Ireland
#109 Netherlands
#121 Malaysia
#125 Brazil
#144 Estonia
#199 Guatemala
Meghan should have given AATB away to someone and established a career as a songwriter, which had long term potential for her. Now she'll have the stigma of being "the AATB girl" if she wants to move into songwriting when everything else she puts out flops miserably.
This is going to be a big MESS. I can already feel it.
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CHARTOLOGY: The music business is bracing itself in anticipation of the so-called consumption chart Billboard and SoundScan are jointly creating, with endless questions about how said chart will impact and possibly alter their marketing methodologies. The weekly chart will combine album and track sales with audio and video streams, assigning an equivalent-album value to each, as in the TEA metric, theoretically providing a more accurate and comprehensive representation of modern-day music consumption. It’s expected to make its debut the first week of January. That time frame also gives the two companies time to get their systems in place; for now, streaming is being measured by hand, a dauntingly labor-intensive task. Billboard’s album sales chart will remain in place, but most observers believe it will take on decreasing importance over time as the business acclimates itself to the new system.
In some respects, the consumption chart will mirror the present sales charts in that sales and streaming tend to correlate, with certain exceptions. In a mock-up of last week’s consumption chart, the Disclosure album, which placed #213 in pure sales with a modest 1.8k, vaults to #64 with a total album equivalent of 8.9k, thanks to 3.3m streams and 48k sales of "Latch." An even more dramatic example is Tove Lo’s debut EP Truth Serum on Island, which is #302 in album sales but has a total consumption rank of #48, the result of 4.3m streams and 64k singles sales on "Habits (Stay High)."
Overall, the most dramatic effect of the consumption chart will be to lengthen the tails of bona fide hits by measuring their aftermarket impact, potentially providing the labels with additional time in which to market these hits. Katy Perry’s PRISM (Capitol), for example, moves up 45 slots from its pure sales ranking of #61 to #16, while Jason Derulo’s Talk Dirty (WB) goes #82-22.
She even got Kanye to perform.
