sales of 262,000 downloads. That sales sum alone, good for a No. 3 ranking on Hot Digital Songs, would have placed the track within the top 15 on the Hot 100 without the inclusion of YouTube streams into the calculation.
Top 15 to #1. How many views count as one point in the final tally?
Do any of you realize how easy it is to hack hundreds of thousands of YT views within minutes? My friend and I could get Triumphant to 500,000,000+ views over night if we wanted to; and it changes to a new IP each view too
In their defense, it's kinda serves the purpose of Hot 100, i.e. to show the most popular songs RIGHT NOW (and not when Radio finally catches up and pushes that crusty song that no one cares about anymore to #1).
BUT... they are bound to measure international traffic and that's messy.
Do any of you realize how easy it is to hack hundreds of thousands of YT views within minutes? My friend and I could get Triumphant to 500,000,000+ views over night if we wanted to; and it changes to a new IP each view too
Here's something to help quantify the impact of YT video views () -
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As "Shake" takes over atop the Hot 100 (and Dance/Electronic Songs, where it leaps from No. 12), it dethrones Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop," featuring Wanz, after a four-week reign. Showing just how strong "Shake" is in streaming, "Shop" registered an impressive 10.1 million streams in the chart's tracking week (dipping 1-2 on Streaming Songs), but the figure is clearly exponentially lower than the 103 million for "Shake." "Shake," in fact, leads the Hot 100 with three-and-a-half times the overall chart points total of "Shop."
Do any of you realize how easy it is to hack hundreds of thousands of YT views within minutes? My friend and I could get Triumphant to 500,000,000+ views over night if we wanted to; and it changes to a new IP each view too
I'm sure there's some sort of filter to tell the real views from the fake ones. Maybe there's like a "3 views per person" kinda rule, and anything over that for the day and they don't count the extra views.
But the idea of "Triumphant" becoming the most viewed youtube video after a couple of nights is pretty entertaining.