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Originally posted by dussymob
Why is drake number 22 in sales and still in contention for number one? BB is a major flop ![rip](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRLSmilies/rip_zpsec10ede9.gif)
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The Billboard 200 is designed to showcase the most popular albums of the week, which includes both streaming and sales. Most people will only buy an album once (with the vast majority of those sales occurring in the first couple weeks that the album is out), whereas people will continue to stream an album they like over a long period of time. So if anything this is the most accurate formula yet.
I don't get why some people are so against streaming being included in Billboard's formula. The sales charts are there for a reason. Why should we have two charts that are exactly the same? Streaming should actually be given more weight, given that sales are dying while streaming is only growing, yet streaming and sales continue to be given equal weight.