A question about gratis tracks - BuzzJack Music Forum

Latest Site News

A question about gratis tracks, Regarding the 2nd songs eligibility to chart

BlazingLovatic View member profile	27th August 2014, 12:30 PM Post #1
[Finest Ð¡asual Dating Authentic Damsels] Joined: 25 November 2012 Posts: 288 User: 17,886	If a song is released as an official single as 'XYZ - Single' on iTunes, and was then also made the 2nd gratis track on an album, would it be ineligible to chart, or would it lose sales accumulated from the album's gratis version? This post has been edited by BlazingLovatic: 27th August 2014, 12:34 PM


danG View member profile	27th August 2014, 12:46 PM Post #2
🔥🚀🔥 Joined: 30 August 2010 Posts: 74,569 User: 11,746	QUOTE(BlazingLovatic @ Aug 27 2014, 01:30 PM) If a song is released as an official single as 'XYZ - Single' on iTunes, and was then also made the 2nd gratis track on an album, would it be ineligible to chart, or would it lose sales accumulated from the album's gratis version? Any sales from the single would count towards its chart position. Any sales from the album version would not. So it would be chart eligible but not all its sales will count.


vidcapper View member profile	27th August 2014, 02:21 PM Post #3
Paul Hyett Joined: 4 April 2006 Posts: 25,346 User: 364	QUOTE(Therm• @ Aug 27 2014, 01:46 PM) Any sales from the single would count towards its chart position. Any sales from the album version would not. So it would be chart eligible but not all its sales will count. What about streams, would those count towards the chart in the above circumstances?