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Originally posted by Ravi
For example
Performance of We Are Young last week:
Sales: 322 thousand
Airplay: 46 million
On-demand streaming: 1100 thousand
Passive streaming: ~9.2 million.
Total chart point may be calculated as:
Sales: 322 * 35% = 113
Airplay: 46 * 50% = 23
On-demand streaming: 1100 * 2% = 22
Passive streaming: 9.2 * 100% = 9
Total = 167 points
These percentages are just indicative. Only God and Billboard know what the exact formula is.
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"The chart's new methodology continues to place the greatest weight on sales, with radio the next most influential component, followed by streaming. (Under the chart's new recipe, on-demand streams will be weighted twice as much as passive/online radio streaming)."
Sales is higher now, so it didn't drop from 40% to 35%. And if on-demand streams are twice more than before, its 10%.
Maybe... 50% sales, 35% airplay, 10% on-demand, 5% passive.