[Ger-55]

Plus, to be fair I believe at least 50% of the cases, radio stations are based on requests, I believe

[M i x]

Originally posted by YR.

Lol if you think it's really like that. But you would defend airplay. Right, Marooner 5?

Lol, so you're telling me that if you were a DJ you would play Florence alll day or I would play Maroon 5 all day just cause we like them, and we would be more successful than a DJ who plays the hits?

[Lose My Breath]

Airplay is still a HUGE factor, especially considering how big of an impact it can have on iTunes positions.

[Ger-55]

Originally posted by Lose My Breath

Airplay is still a HUGE factor, especially considering how big of an impact it can have on iTunes positions.

But it shouldn't be the most important, let's be honest

[M i x]

Originally posted by Ger-55

But it shouldn't be the most important, let's be honest

Yep, cause it influences the sales. Songs in the UK would be nothing without radio.

[Ben.M.]

Originally posted by YR.

And how does a random DJ playing a song HE/SHE likes reflects popularity? Airplay shouldn't be a factor

Agreed

[M i x]

Originally posted by Ben.M.

Agreed

You got it

[Ben.M.]

Originally posted by Marooner5

You got it

Er do you agree?

[highwind44029]

Originally posted by Ger-55

Airplay still being a factor. It's platform to promote music. Think about people who don't have money. And there are people like me who use radio.. And I believe radio still being huge nowdays. I prefer listen to a radio station than put my iPod and play my music. It's kinda more exciting.

Airplay is what matters the most? Yep, and it shouldn't be that way.

1. Audience's calculation is ridiculous. Let's be honest, I mean 171M listening to a song over and over again? At best I can see around 110M and that's it. I wish there was a way to calculate real Audience

2. Since Airplay's numbers are just too high, even when we're talking about Nielssn, they should weight less. Why does it have to be "1k downloads = 0.750M Audience"? I wish it could be like 1k = 1.5 or 2M Audience

That's not how the numbers are interpreted tho. There's a difference between a song being listened to (for example, somebody turning on the radio and actually tuning into a station) and it being heard (for example, people walking around the mall that just happened to pass by a store that's playing a certain radio station.) Audience impressions are based on the latter.

You're right that it's impossible to calculate real audience tho. This also makes streaming component of the chart more reliable.

[Superpower]

#33 ***Flawless
#40 Partition
#55 XO
#63 Drunk In Love

All they needed were a couple of performances

[MusicTalker]

Originally posted by Lose My Breath

Airplay is still a HUGE factor, especially considering how big of an impact it can have on iTunes positions.

I agree.

The overall AI #s have consistently been ridiculously high this year, though. It should still be a component on the Hot 100, but its significance should be deflated.

[Ichinaru19]

I wonder if this will become a hit

346 Lindsey Stirling Shatter Me (feat. Lzzy Hale)

[fridayteenage]

Originally posted by MusicTalker

I agree.

The overall AI #s have consistently been ridiculously high this year, though. It should still be a component on the Hot 100, but its significance should be deflated.

At the least I think it should be 1k sales=1 mil audience.
Instead of 1k sales=0.75 mil audience.

[MusicTalker]

Originally posted by fridayteenage

At the least I think it should be 1k sales=1 mil audience.
Instead of 1k sales=0.75 mil audience.

I think 1K sales = 1 mil audience would be perfect.

[Ger-55]

Originally posted by highwind44029

That's not how the numbers are interpreted tho. There's a difference between a song being listened to (for example, somebody turning on the radio and actually tuning into a station) and it being heard (for example, people walking around the mall that just happened to pass by a store that's playing a certain radio station.) Audience impressions are based on the latter.

You're right that it's impossible to calculate real audience tho. This also makes streaming component of the chart more reliable.

Oh, I got it. Still ridiculous how high they are. They need to re-weight it.

[iamvladd]

Originally posted by M.R.

Even though I can't stand him they should add feat. Ed Sheeran so that Jessie can get more sales.

Yeah, lemme email Interscope.
A shame it's only charting on Pop (& #858 at that).

Originally posted by iLays

This is so ****ing SHlTTY Vladd, you always puttin me on to tha hottest **** SLAY ME. Lemme add this to my Spotify playlist NOW

And lmao.

[Inner Insanity]

Originally posted by Ichinaru19

I wonder if this will become a hit

346 Lindsey Stirling Shatter Me (feat. Lzzy Hale)

I so wish. It's an amazing song.

[rihannabiggestfan]

Shatter Me is fabulous, it deserves to smash

[Rentboy]

Originally posted by Ichinaru19

I wonder if this will become a hit

346 Lindsey Stirling Shatter Me (feat. Lzzy Hale)

It already peaked at #30 back in April.

[brianc33616]

I say 1k sales should equal 1.5 million audience, but with the A1 pool of stations (all the stations Mediabase tracks, published and non-published), not the Mediabase "published" or even smaller number Billboard stations. Change the ratio to 1k sales = 1.625 mil audience if there is a concern about the weekly audience and/or pool of stations getting too large.