And I mean, how little movement will there be in the charts?
Ari's album wouldn't have left the top 10 yet since it's debut if this chart were in existence this year.
and if an artist sells albums but not singles, they'll be majorly screwed.
I'm in the same boat as everyone else saying that TEA makes no sense. 300,000 sales of one single = 30,000 album sales, right? That is ridiculous on all counts.
Well i mean not really, back then even one-hit wonders were able to go multi-platinum mostly because people bought their albums by that one hit. So the whole "one album benefits from one huge smash" makes sense in some way.
NOOOO I Still cant Believe this is happening
This is so unfair Billboard is ckilling th music industry!! Yes streams are the future but Its to soon In my opinion! + why would they change 23 year rule
Using TEA her last album is not even close to Gold.
Add in SEA sis, and were focusing on the upcoming era not the last. We were expecting gold but with streaming added in platinum will do. Fact is ever since streaming has been implemented into the charts she has done significantly better, because people love to shade her sales and etc but they ALWAYS check on what she is doing, but no matter how good will never support because they like kicking her while she is down.
It'll be interesting to see this chart once sales dramatically stall in January, then we will see the true dynamics of how the new BB200 works.
Right now, Taylor will probably dominate through the month of December with her monster album sales and BS/SIO + other album tracks still selling decently.
the most annoying thing will be when someone will sell a lot of albums but will be lower than someone who has bigger singles or streaming. And we all know that definately will happen
the most annoying thing will be when someone will sell a lot of albums but will be lower than someone who has bigger singles or streaming. And we all know that definately will happen
It'll be neat if someone makes a thread tracking the albums which are #1/T10 only because of the new rule, and what would have been in their place instead.
At least it doesnt include youtube. That would be some mayor ********. Although im here for them to include Youtube's new subscription based music streaming service
I'm in the same boat as everyone else saying that TEA makes no sense. 300,000 sales of one single = 30,000 album sales, right? That is ridiculous on all counts.
But I guess this is good news for certain artists who struggle to sell albums despite having big hits. If you can't get real sales, why not fake ones?
Taylor obviously get most advantages. Blank Space alone sells 300k per week And with SIO still in top 10. Her album number already big and with this new format, 1989 getting bigger and bigger. Imagine if all her release single a hit, the slayage can't be real. Poor others
This was completely expected. I'm glad they are also keeping a sales-only chart.
The only thing I'm not too big on is the 1,500 streams of any track off an album making one album sale. It just doesn't make sense if someone has a hit single in streaming but isn't selling albums and their other songs aren't streaming that well either.
I embrace this change. Streaming is the future of music, not sales. Billboard is just changing with the times.
Also, the inclusion of streaming may help spice up Q1, always known as the sales dead quarter. But people stream music from their laptops every day year-round. January may not see the boring music freeze anymore.