TBH its only OBVIOUS!... The problem is that the weight that they are giving to the video-views is maybe too much....
But 106M views in the US alone = biggest song of the week... no matter how you see it... PLUS its sales are pretty big... and even if radio doesnt support it... it doesnt mean its not the most popular song on the country....
Look at Gangnam style.... there were weeks that it gained +100M views... and still was held from #1 coz it didnt have enough airplay
TBH its only OBVIOUS!... The problem is that the weight that they are giving to the video-views is maybe too much....
But 106M views in the US alone = biggest song of the week... no matter how you see it... PLUS its sales are pretty big... and even if radio doesnt support it... it doesnt mean its not the most popular song on the country....
Look at Gangnam style.... there were weeks that it gained +100M views... and still was held from #1 coz it didnt have enough airplay
The problem is those 106M views had nothing to do with the song. It's only a 30 second snippet. There's NO WAY the meme would have exploded like this if people had to sit through and/or create 3+ minute videos.
Count youtube views? Yes, perfect. But not like this.
This is what I figured ou from the tweets.You have to have 20 m views first then bb will start counting the views for the chart.So debut video views wont matter??
On one hand my fave is a juggernaut on YT and i have no doubt she would benefit a lot but then again it will be easier to get top 10s and #1's for the others now.
I don't want the other girls getting to the top as often as Rihanna, its supposed to be our thing
I wanna know if a video accumulating a 10 million viewership over the week, accompanied by a 80 percent dislike bar; how would Billboard treat this situation?