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Originally posted by cancer
True.
I never bought $120 worth of CD's yearly in my entire life and I don't plan on starting now.
I can just stream those songs for free on YT, why would I spend $120 on songs I can listen to free elsewhere?
I buy music from artists I wanna support or if I really wanna own an album.
Idk, call me old-fashioned but I'll never succumb to support streaming especially with its inclusion in the BB 200 chart.
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I think Billboard, as far as albums go, needs to have a separate streaming and separate sales chart. Songs are being counted both twice in the singles department and albums and it's inaccurate. Mark Ronson's flop album that no one bought or streamed aside from Uptown Funk is probably platinum at this point solely because of Uptown Funk. That makes no sense.