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Originally posted by Sunshine.
Streaming should have its own chert and remain separate from single and album charts
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For albums I agree. Unless you have a way to know that the whole album was streamed, I don't think a song or songs should count for the Billboard 200. It places an inaccurate importance on the success of songs when you're really measuring the success of an album.
If I bought the album and listened to it 1,000 times, it still only counts for 1 sale.
So if the reason you track streaming is to see how much people are listening to an album, then you're putting an unfair advantage on streaming when most likely if someone bought the album they will not be using streaming. It'd be like using radio plays to count on the Billboard 200.