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Originally posted by Elliot
Well should the charr base more on sales as its actual people buying then just someone randomly having the radio on in their car?
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Radio isn't that simple. Lots of people discover new music through radio stations, and thus radio directly causes people to buy and stream music. Additionally, callout scores mean that the general public does have a say in what is played on the radio, if we're going to go to that argument. Furthermore, radio isn't a dying format like sales, as the number of top 40 stations has remained steady over the last few years. Why decrease the influence of a component on the chart when it hasn't decreased in real life?
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Originally posted by RainDreamer
Free? There's a paid one? Is that were all the unreleased music charts or something? Where do i find it?
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He's talking about billboard.biz.
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The online extension of Billboard magazine, www.billboard.com/biz is the essential online destination for the music business.
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It lets you see full version of charts you can only see a preview of on billboard.com. However, the Hot 100 is fully visible on both websites.