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Originally posted by umichgrad07
Billboard played with the idea back in early 2013 (when they restructed the Hot 100 for YouTube). My guess is within the next two years tbh. The only challenge is figuring out what counts as an album stream - half of the album's tracks? full album? etc.
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It should just be 1 streams from all tracks each = 1 album sale.
So if an album had 10 tracks:
Track 1 - 182,000 streams
Track 2 - 291,000 streams
Track 3 - 83,000 streams
Track 4 - 92,000 streams
Track 5 - 79,000 streams
Track 6 - 175,000 streams
Track 7 - 108,000 streams
Track 8 - 97,000 streams
Track 9 - 89,000 streams
Track 10 - 91,000 streams.
Since all tracks have atleast 79,000 streams that'd convert into 79k album sales. The ones with the huge 150k+ streams are singles usually, and there high streams would just count towards their certifications as singles too anyways.
Idk.