I think streaming should count only if someone streams the whole album (not singles) and have 150 album plays=1 purchase. I disagree with the TEA's though.
Major pop gurls hit 400k first week easily (2M before the album), does it mean the pre-album release singles sales will count towards the parent album's first week sales ? I wonder when they will be add since those are sales and streams
You guys are likely completely misunderstanding this.
They'll probably treat streams and track sales as they treat album sales, equivalently - not count them as actual full sales. That's not a thing and this is a Billboard change, not a Soundscan change.
So the effect of 5 million streams and 100,000 tracks download will be an additional 13,333 albums.
And it is VERY HARD for most artists to get 5 million streams and 100,000 TRACKS sold each week.
The #10 best selling song each week can't even crack 100,000 downloads nowaday.
Streams may not affect too much. But downloads play a bigger role. Just like i said before, if Taylor's songs sell more than 400k per week which equal to 40k, that number is pretty big and it can block other albums that have been predicted to be #1 from topping BB200. Imagine if it happen to upcoming Nicki or Rihanna's album
Which would mean 1.23M + 1.16M added for songs sales = 2.39M sold.
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300M song streams... Lets say 25% of those streams come from the US = 70.000.000 streams = 46.667 added album sales for streaming.
Unapologetic would be at 2.437.000 in the US.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE:
LOUD:
- 1.780.000 albums sold
+ 3.6M + 3M + 3.8M + 0.5M + 0.9M + 1.7M + 0.5M(Cherry picked songs) = 14.000.000 = 1.4M albums
+ 400M streams from which 25% of them lets say are from the US = 100M = 66.666 albums
Stupid idea. Certain fanbases will be streaming for their lives and not leaving the house, glued to their computers. This move will create tomorrow's serial killers and psychopaths in society.