Mediatraffic have announced on their homepage that, from next year's chart, streams will be incorporated into the albums chart.
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The year is coming to an end soon, only two additional weeks... and then we'll make a change in our album chart. Hitherto it was a pure sales chart (physical and digital sales). From next year on we'll add streaming to the physical and digital album sales, similar to almost all other national album charts.
But guys hold on to your turkeys! It's still just one guy in Dresden compiling these charts based on the exact charts and numbers we all get hold of anyway.
If he was like an insider it woulf be different.
It's nice to have compiled charts like this and weekly over a long time, but IFPI really is the only outlet we can use but i would so love to have a WW soundscan, like we have for movies WW.