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Originally posted by simmnfierzig
A new Beyonce release is also a special occasion, but the main point: all 12 Lemonade tracks would have charted on the Hot 100 just based on Tidal streams with 0 sales and Drake will likely chart 16 or 17 additional songs next week just based on Apple Music streams.
As streaming grows we will see that pretty regularly with big album releases.
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I wonder if they will try to combat this somehow. I don't think a song should have to be a single to chart, there are obviously problems with that approach. But at the same time it is ridiculous to have the Hot 100 completely infiltrated and overwhelmed by random album tracks.
Essentially the presence of streaming is allowing the influence of albums to affect the singles chart, and the influence of singles to affect the album chart. It's kind of alarming to watch.
They could consider limiting album track charting to the highest 4 or 5 songs from the album, maybe. That allows for a couple singles to chart as well as the highest cherry picked tracks. But it seems quite arbitrary. Alternatively you could have like a reverse recurrent rule where album tracks are blocked from the Hot 100 for the first month (4 weeks), and then allow them to chart normally afterwards because they have shown staying power. Btw I would count an album track as anything that hasn't been serviced to radio.
On the BB200 side, they should definitely adopt the UK chart method which prevents the TEA+SEA of the top 2 tracks from contributing to the SPS numbers.