If it was the other way round you'll be saying SPS is the future. But IT IS the future, the fact that Drake album is getting those streams is actually IMPRESIVE.
omg when one cannot decipher difference between reality and stanning world. Slay hive
Just kidding but I bet these kids will stream DW crazily.
Like I said before, I come here to practice my English + plus I love Bey. Do you really think that I will fake my IP or buy more than 1 copy of an album? Do you really think that I hate these kids? Oh come on.
why? dont they have 12$ to buy an album and they dont have 9,99 $ to have a full month of music?
or is it coz country listeners do not have computers?
or is it coz country listeners do not have smartphones?
please enlighten me.
BY THE WAY... THE BILLBOARD 200 HAS BEEN LIKE THIS FOR A YEAR AND A HALF ALREADY... PLEASE. GET OVER IT ALREADY
It's all about demographic tho. Like I don't think most Blake fans would be Spotify users or fans of most older artists in general. So in a way, it's not really fair. Streaming is the thing now and everyone gets that but it just shouldn't be weighted THAT heavily for a 54k selling album to be blocking 140k selling albums on the albums chart. No matter how you spin it, that's a mess.
It's all about demographic tho. Like I don't think most Blake fans would be Spotify users or fans of most older artists in general. So in a way, it's not really fair. Streaming is the thing now and everyone gets that but it just shouldn't be weighted THAT heavily for a 54k selling album to be blocking 140k selling albums on the albums chart. No matter how you spin it, that's a mess.
Drake's album is the biggest album in streaming history, so to be fair and in perspective this isn't something that would happen 95% of the time. Nobody is doing half of what Drake's album is doing on Streaming. This is a rarity, and the album has streaming power that no other album has had before so ofcourse it's gonna have heavy streaming that outweighs the sales after a few weeks.
The rest of today is Dangerous Woman on an endless loop. I'm also going to purchase 5 copies from target and I'm gifting 2 of my friends the album on iTunes.
For god's sake, Billboard 200 is a popularity chart, not a sales chart. Just like HOT100.
Are we going to have the same overdone conversation every time someone big is blocking/being blocked?
The rest of today is Dangerous Woman on an endless loop. I'm also going to purchase 5 copies from target and I'm gifting 2 of my friends the album on iTunes.
For god's sake, Billboard 200 is a popularity chart, not a sales chart. Just like HOT100.
Are we going to have the same overdone conversation every time someone big is blocking/being blocked?
The formula is flawed. Billboard really needs to reevaluate their criteria.
Billboard definitely needs to lower the streaming impact. Or they should discount the highest streamed and lowest streamed tracks on the album to give a more fair impression of the ALBUMS impact. At the moment I think hit singles carry way too much weight on the album chart.