Nnnnn at everyone suddenly becoming Blake's supporters
It's not necessarily supporting Blake, but more being shocked at the fact he sold over 100k more than the #1 album and has finished in 3rd. It's ludicrous.
Ariana is the deserving #2 both in pure sales and SPS, stop trying to make miracles happen, sistrens.
She's still #2 with great sales and streaming, considering she doesn't have any song in the Top 10 like last time.
But wow. Blake sold a ton and he's #3, **** that. SPS truly sucks.
Why are people still stuck in the past with streaming? People don't buy albums anymore as much as they stream them. Drake deserves the #1 because people are listening to his music. I doesn't matter if "people didn't spend their money on it!!11!!" It shows people keep listening for a fourth(?) week in a row and aren't just buying a CD and throwing it aside after two or three listens.
This is a much fairer method as it makes it more about the ALBUMS popularity rather than it being driven by hit singles success. Hit singles have their own chart to shine in they shouldnt be distorting the album charts.
And if anybody DESERVES to be no1 its clearly Blake shelton looking at actual sales.
it IS a lot fairer. but given how disastrous the sales climate is, Billboard will do anything to inflate sales receipts. Record labels are happy with that, i can assure you.
Why are people still stuck in the past with streaming? People don't buy albums anymore as much as they stream them. Drake deserves the #1 because people are listening to his music. I doesn't matter if "people didn't spend their money on it!!11!!" It shows people keep listening for a fourth(?) week in a row and aren't just buying a CD and throwing it aside after two or three listens.
But streaming just the hit song from an album doesn't mean the whole ALBUM is popular. The UK recognises this fact and discounts the top 2 tracks on the album to give a more fair impression of an albums appeal. The US system allows hit singles to have way too much influence on the album charts. They are separate entities.
If somebody buys the album they obviously want the whole album not just the hit song.
People keep bringing up how it needs to be like the UK Charts, but streaming has even more effect in their charts.
Last week:
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Views rebounds 4-1 on sales of 23,846 copies. That tally includes a massive 53.43% (12,741 sales) contribution from streaming, and made the difference between Drake and his predecessor at No.1 - Beyoncé - taking pole position this week. Beyoncé’s Lemonade jumps 3-2 on sales of 23,085 copies, but achieved only 1,459 of these from streaming. On the other side of the coin, Lemonade racked up 21,626 paid-for sales, compared to Views’ 11,105.
Streaming accounted for 51.9% of Views total in US last week, whereas it accounted for 53.4% of Views total in UK last week.
And:
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Overall album sales are down just 0.03% week-on-week at 1,567,674. Streaming accounted for 535,446 sales - 34.16% of the total.
Last week Streaming made up 27.14% of sales on Billboard 200.
Streaming makes up 34.16% sales on the UK Official Albums Chart, and according to them made up 27.4% of sales in the UK Albums Chart in 2015.
Following the UK method really isn't gonna drastically make any difference. This week it would since the difference between #1 and #2 is literally 1%, but not on an average normal week.
What a mess.
#Justice4Ariana 
It's ludicrous.
legends, all of them. 
