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Originally posted by UNNAMI
I don't think it's " to heavily". Maybe a little, but it's good formula because streaming is the new "it" thing. Why would sales or radio shold be more important when their numbers are not good as streaming's?
The number one song on iTunes is getting like 100-150k, when the number one streaming songs is getting 35m. 35m is like equivalent of 223k if I am counting right.
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Well, if you want to judge the popularity of a format by the number of listeners, Country comes in second after Pop.
Then you have the issue with Country songs like Florida Georgia Line's "Holy" which went Top 3 on Sales (multiple weeks over 70k downloads, and peaked over 100k), Top 15 on Airplay (with some crossing over to AC and Hot AC), and even breaking into the Top 40 on Streaming. Still, Holy stalled out barely inside the Top 15 on the Hot 100.
Also, Thomas Rhett's "Die A Happy Man" spent months in the Top 10 in sales, six weeks at #1 on Country Airplay, received crossover support from Hot AC and AC, and briefly cracked the Top 50 on HSS. However, Rhett couldn't even crack the Top 20.
So using the "popular" argument actually shows sales deserve a bigger proportion of the chart points than they currently receive.