[Dollas n Diamonds]

tragic

[umich]

[Dollas n Diamonds]

Originally posted by Remmy

Oh maybe its not too bad then

[UNNAMI]

While the Billboard 200 will be taking on a whole new look, Billboard will continue to publish a pure album sales chart, called Top Album Sales, that will maintain the traditional Billboard 200 methodology, comprising Nielsen's sales data exclusively. Existing genre album charts (Country, R&B/Hip-Hop, etc.) will also remain sale-based for the time being.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...digital-tracks

[DanceForYou]

Garbage. This will really hurt R&B artists, I think. The new Hot 100 formula really did as well.

[Jameson Teqkilla]

Good. The album sales chart is making less and less sense in today's market and this will help it better reflect what people are listening to.

[Theus]

Basically a chart that shows almost the overall sucess of an era.

Let's wait to see how this going to end.

[hardbrit]

AP

[DanceForYou]

Originally posted by Remmy

"for the time being"


And they don't address if certifications will be changed, hmm.

[Devon]

Oh ****

Shocking, but this is a step in the right direction. Billboard is NOT a sales chart, it's a popularity chart.

[alexanderao]

Excellent.

[Blues]

Originally posted by hardbrit

AP

Yeah but now it's confirmed by Billboard and they gave more info

[ririfan21]

Originally posted by Lately 1814

Great. Soon you'll be able to debut at #1 without even having sold an album.

If this basically sums it up, hell no.

[XIAN]

nicki better get that #1

[BSPEARSUK]

Billboard is a joke and a #1 won't be considered a great achievement in years to come if this continues.

[iamvladd]

(Physical/digital) sales ha demise.

[fridayteenage]

So on-demand, no YT.

I believe the one-week record is about 4 million for Shake it Off...that would be the equivalent of 2.7k albums. That's, er, not a big number. Even given the huge album sales drops this year.

The record for downloads is over 600k, which would be 60k+ albums. Much more of a difference for TEA than SEA then.

[Superpower]

Originally posted by UNNAMI

While the Billboard 200 will be taking on a whole new look, Billboard will continue to publish a pure album sales chart, called Top Album Sales, that will maintain the traditional Billboard 200 methodology, comprising Nielsen's sales data exclusively. Existing genre album charts (Country, R&B/Hip-Hop, etc.) will also remain sale-based for the time being.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...digital-tracks

[Blues]

Originally posted by fridayteenage

So on-demand, no YT.

I believe the one-week record is about 4 million for Shake it Off...that would be the equivalent of 2.7k albums. That's, er, not a big number.

Yeah streaming won't have much effect at all.

The major thing is adding track downloads.

[Zayn Malik]

Where was this during the Bangerz Era