1. One Dance 415 (=)
2. Can't Stop The Feeling 365 (=)
3. Panda 347 (=)
4. Don't Let Me Down 313 (=)
5. This Is What You Came For 294 (+1)
6. Cheap Thrills 245 (+2)
7. Needed Me 237 (=)
8. Work From Home 232 (-3)
9. Don't Mind 231 (+1)
10. I Took A Pill In Ibiza 207 (-1)
11. Ride 203 (+2)
12. Just Like Fire 184 (=)
13. 7 Years 179 (-2)
14. Dangerous Woman 163 (+1)
15. H.O.L.Y. 162 (+2)
16. Work 155 (=)
17. Send My Love 152 (+3)
18. Me Too 151 (=)
19. Controlla 147 (+4)
20. Close 140 (-6)
21-100
21. Stressed Out 135 (=)
22. Lost Boy 134 (+2)
23. Let It Go 133 (+4)
24. Love Yourself 129 (-5)
25. Heathens 129 (debut)
26. All The Way Up 125 (+5)
27. My House 125 (+1)
28. Never Forget You 123 (-6)
29. Too Good 119 (=)
30. Low Life 119 (=)
31. Pillowtalk 114 (-5)
32. Cake By The Ocean 114 (-7)
33. Me, Myself & I 102 (-1)
34. Never Be Like You 102 (+2)
35. Cut It 98 (=)
36. Sorry 97 (-3)
37. For Free 96 (+3)
38. Oui 95 (-4)
39. Wicked 92 (+4)
40. Kill'Em With Kindness 90 (+4)
41. Sorry 90 (-3)
42. Huntin', Fishin' & Lovin' 87 (-5)
43. Into You 85 (+7)
44. 2 Phones 83 (-2)
45. Wake Up 83 (+11)
46. Really Really 81 (+3)
47. Church Bells 81 (+1)
48. Uber Everywhere 80 (+3)
49. No 78 (+5)
50. Exchange 77 (-4)
51. Treat You Better 76 (+12)
52. Lights Come On 76 (+1)
53. Wasted Time 75 (+4)
54. Pop Style 74 (-9)
55. Head Over Boots 73 (+4)
56. T-Shirt 72 (-9)
57. Humble And Kind 72 (-16)
58. I Hate U I Love U 71 (-3)
59. Unsteady 71 (-20)
60. Wild Things 67 (-8)
61. Record Year 67 (=)
62. From The Ground Up 65 (-2)
63. You Don't Own Me 62 (+5)
64. We Don't Talk Anymore 61 (+22)
65. Wherever I Go 61 (-1)
66. Gold 60 (+1)
67. Came Here To Forget 58 (-5)
68. Peter Pan 56 (+4)
69. That Part 55 (+7)
70. Make You Miss Me 53 (+5)
71. Try Everything 53 (-1)
72. Body 52 (-7)
73. Hasta El Amanecer 52 (+12)
74. Champions 52 (-3)
75. The Sound Of Silence 51 (-9)
76. Hype 49 (-7)
77. Brocoli 49 (+10)
78. My PYT 49 (+16)
79. Noise 49 (+1)
80. American Country Love Song 48 (-6)
81. Sit Still, Look Pretty 48 (+2)
82. Childs Play 47 (-9)
83. Fix 46 (+1)
84. Light It Up 45 (-6)
85. Hymn For The Weekend 44 (+3)
86. Think Of You 43 (-5)
87. Still Here 43 (-8)
88. Ain't No Stopping Us Now 41 (debut)
89. Grammys 41 (-7)
90. Toothbrush 40 (+8)
91. Dark Necessities 40 (debut)
92. No Problem 39 (-1)
93. All In My Head 39 (debut)
94. Kiss It Better 39 (-5)
95. Nights On Fire 38 (debut)
96. Different For Girls 38 (+3)
97. Messin' Around 37 (-20)
98. Money Longer 36 (-6)
99. No Money 36 (debut)
100. Say It 36 (debut)
Below
Ophelia 36
Lush Life 34
Like I Would 33
No Broken Hearts 31
In Common 30
TIWYCF is only predicted to climb one spot even with the video and increase in sales....
1500 streams pays similar to the amount of 1 album sale. Label contracts with artists, songwriters, and producers dictate how the amount gets split though.
According to RIAA, in 2015:
Paid Streaming - $1.218,9B
Ad-Supported Streaming - $385.1M
= $1.604B made from streaming during 2015 in US.
According to Nielsen:
317.2B streams during 2015 in US.
$1.604B / 317.2B streams = $0.0050567465321564 per stream.
$0.0050567465321564 x 1500 streams = $7.59 made; similar to an album purchase.
And since VEVO isn't included in SEA, if you divided the money made by audio streams only by the amount of audio streams, the amount made for 1500 streams would even be higher. ($10+)
As I said, it's the contracts with labels that dictate who gets what. If Streaming made little to no money, the industry profit wouldn't be increasing due to it.
1500 = 1 album is a fine formula. Billboard at the end of the day has nothing to do with artists being ripped off by their labels.
$7.59 is not the average cost for a full studio album & VEVO can be used in conjunction with traditional digital/physical albums as that was never a primary issue. The payout to labels & publishers at the end of the day is only a fraction of the cost of the average album sale. Your calculations proved just that
Lol what. Drake has always been an album seller. His last two normal albums before Views Did over 2m pure sales. His mixtape went over 1m. His current one is at 1.2m+ pure and on its way to 2m just two months in. Sure he's not doing 5/6 million but he's doing better than 99% percent of the industry.
$7.59 is not the average cost for a full studio album & VEVO can be used in conjunction with traditional digital/physical albums as that was never a primary issue. The payout to labels & publishers at the end of the day is only a fraction of the cost of the average album sale. Your calculations proved just that
I didn't say $7.59 was the average cost of an album.
The actual average per album that goes to the industry in 2015:
Total CD revenue 2015 - $2,611.5B (digital and physical)
Total CD sales 2015 - 247.3M (physical and digital)
$2,611.5B / 247.3M = $10.56 made per CD sale.
As I said again, 1500 audio streams (not including VEVO) makes around $10. So yes, 1500 audio streams makes similar to one CD sale, hence the formula.'
The payout to labels is not only fraction, please stop lying. The RIAA report above which reports how much labels made in 2015 reports streaming altogether made $1.604B and in return makes 1/3 of the industry's revenue.
Streaming is actually the sector of music labels make the most money from now.
An RIAA report which shows what the industry actually made in 2015 > a TheGuardian article guesstimating how money is made.
I didn't say $7.59 was the average cost of an album.
The actual average per album that goes to the industry in 2015:
Total CD revenue 2015 - $2,611.5B (digital and physical)
Total CD sales 2015 - 247.3M (physical and digital)
$2,611.5B / 247.3M = $10.56 made per CD sale.
As I said again, 1500 audio streams (not including VEVO) makes around $10. So yes, 1500 audio streams makes similar to one CD sale, hence the formula.'
The payout to labels is not only fraction, please stop lying. The RIAA report above which reports how much labels made in 2015 reports streaming altogether made $1.604B and in return makes 1/3 of the industry's revenue.
Streaming is actually the sector of music labels make the most money from now.
An RIAA report which shows what the industry actually made in 2015 > a TheGuardian article guesstimating how money is made.
If your socioeconomic status is such that you're still able to own a device that can stream all day, you're still better off than many people in this world.