Why was a random, unofficial YouTube vid counting towards the hot 100?
Anything that has official audio and is detected by YouTube/reported to Billboard will count toward the Hot 100, whether the channel is official or not (see Harlem Shake)
And you guys are acting like because 1 video went down in streams that due to being blocked that people flat out just didn't listen to the song the whole week and it went down 7M+ without the possibility that people watched other videos.
To say Hotline actually lost over 7 million streams with how unavoidably viral it's been online is a bigger reach than saying it gained over 5 million tbh.
I think as long as the Apple Music video streams counted he has #1. Billboard said in 2007 that Apple was able to provide sales for music videos so I don't see as to why they wouldn't be able to provide streams for them.
Anything that has official audio and is detected by YouTube/reported to Billboard will count toward the Hot 100, whether the channel is official or not (see Harlem Shake)
I'm positive that Drake will get his long deserved #1 with HB.
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I remember the HS mayhem. I think the Billboard staff still repent what they did with it. You just cannot make such an abrupt change in the charts in such an atypical scenario, because it will turn out a mess.
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is this the first time he's been out of the itunes top 10 all year? (I know combined he's still there)
I think the Billboard staff still repent what they did with it. You just cannot make such an abrupt change in the charts in such an atypical scenario, because it will turn out a mess. 
