at the end of the day, racism has been around for a long ass time and Lipsyncé never opened her mouth in support of social activism or to comment on the black diaspora until it became trendy and profitable to do so. she's not a visionary, she's an opportunist
She's definitely an opportunist, but there's nothing wrong with that
But radio is payola'd
Spotify/Apple Music are payola'd and only kids use it
Sales are dead
YouTube is the best way to measure GP interest. The only thing that needs to change is only the official video should count.
Billboard always claims consumers interest in the actual music is what they aim to track the most, and youtube will always be last in that front. Theres too many factors to accurately say anything from it: watching because one likes the video=\= watching the song. Watching because its a viral meme =\= watching for the song. Watching because youtube autoplay =\= watching for the song. Not to mention theres always errors reporting streams, stupid situational rules about when to count song streams and the fact that its worth a teenie fraction of already abysmal ondemand streaming pay. Its ruining the hot 100 imo
