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Originally posted by Apollō
Surprisingly, BTW itself only accounts for about 25 million streams (though it's in the top ten of its year as well, I should note).
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I'm not sure how Nielsen compiles the streaming list, but the 25 million streams was for the video, while it did a little under 37 million as a song (according to the top 10 lists for those areas) a total of 72 million. But, I don't think it's a matter of taking the numbers from either list and figuring out what the overall artists list shows, because if you put all of LMFAO's streaming songs and videos just from the top ten they have over 223 million streams in 2011. Or Nicki with 156 million just from "Super Bass" being the top streamed video and song of 2011.
So there must be a method unbeknownst to us. Either way, it's still very obvious "Born This Way" (and the streaming of her past hits) are the bulk of whatever way they calculated the 135 million for 2011. The rest of the singles, bar maybe "The Edge of Glory", didn't have the pull or the longevity to capture any notable percentage of that total.