The current Billboard Hot 100 calculation =

Sales Points + Airplay Points + Streaming Points

 

1,000 Sales = 1 point on the BBHot100

1,000,000 Audience Impressions (radio) = 1 point on the BBHot100

Streaming: unknown (said to be only about 5% of total tally) with data from Nielsen.

 

Nielsen now expands its streaming tracking

 

 

The Nielsen Company, a global leader in providing insights into what consumers watch and buy, announced a significant expansion of its streaming panel, adding well known services including Vevo, Slacker, MOG, Thumbplay, Akoo, and Cricket. Data from these services, and from the existing reporting panel consisting of AOL, Napster, Rhapsody, Verizon Wireless and Yahoo!, is now included in the Nielsen BDS Encore system.

 

Maybe one day it would be

 

1,000 sales = 1 pt

1,000,000 Radio Audience Impression = 1 pt

1,000,000 Online Stream = 1 pt

 

 

 

Heck, it would be best to do away with radio and streaming. The #1 best selling song = #1 on BillBoard Hot 100. Popularity is measured by sales, not airplay on the radio.

About time they added VEVO.

About time they added VEVO.

 

Rebecca Black "Friday" with over 30 million streams in a week is the reason for the change.

 

Just kidding.

Heck, it would be best to do away with radio and streaming. The #1 best selling song = #1 on BillBoard Hot 100. Popularity is measured by sales, not airplay on the radio.

 

Totally agree with this. I'd be gutted if the UK charts suddenly decided to add airplay into the charts. The public should be allowed to judge songs themselves and not be forced to listen, and like, whatever bosses at Radio 1 "think" people between 16-24 (for eg) want to listen to.

 

Music should not be limited - in fact, I'd prefer it if the UK embraced more music from Europe. There's loads of US artists who constantly do well in the UK with some of those artists all blending into each other they're so similar.

I agree that I wish more European hits could do well in the UK, and that it would be awful for airplay to be included in our charts. Oh yay! Heart FM keep Empire State of Mind in the top 40 for 2 years. :rolleyes:

That's why Hot 100 has its current/recurrent system.

 

Despite its complicated formula, Hot 100 is pretty close to the perfect measure of popularity.

That's why Hot 100 has its current/recurrent system.

 

Despite its complicated formula, Hot 100 is pretty close to the perfect measure of popularity.

 

I disagree.

 

Last week, ET sold over 260,000 songs. Born This way sold 80,000 less. However, Born this way has radio airplay advantage since ET is just starting out.

 

Result: Born this way is #1 even though it is not as popular as ET for that week.

 

In what universe is a song that sold 260,000 is less popular than a song that sold 180,000?

 

 

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by Dust2

Popularity doesn't reflect only to sales. In the early noughties record companies didn't even release commercial singles so the popularity had to be measured some way (mostly airplay and album sales).

 

And E.T. will either reach number one soon or hang around the charts long enough to being remembered as very popular song. It doesn't even have a video yet which gives it zero points in streaming.

 

In addition, Lady Gaga's Born This Way sold 24k of PHYSICAL singles.

 

An artist can be popular without having a hit single. Like Arcade Fire have had none. Although they have a number one album. And as far as artists are concerned, gigs are a good way to measure the popularity as well. Sold out stadiums surely are a hint of popularity.

 

 

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by SKOB

Popularity doesn't reflect only to sales. In the early noughties record companies didn't even release commercial singles so the popularity had to be measured some way (mostly airplay and album sales).

 

And E.T. will either reach number one soon or hang around the charts long enough to being remembered as very popular song. It doesn't even have a video yet which gives it zero points in streaming.

 

In addition, Lady Gaga's Born This Way sold 24k of PHYSICAL singles.

 

An artist can be popular without having a hit single. Like Arcade Fire have had none. Although they have a number one album. And as far as artists are concerned, gigs are a good way to measure the popularity as well. Sold out stadiums surely are a hint of popularity.

 

We are talking about the popularity of a single though.

 

There is the album chart for the popularity of the album, which is measured by sales and only sales.

Heck, it would be best to do away with radio and streaming. The #1 best selling song = #1 on BillBoard Hot 100. Popularity is measured by sales, not airplay on the radio.

 

I AGREE! ^_^

Using airplay as a measure of popularity is absolutely bizarre and manipulative. The tiny minority of the US population who decide what gets played on the radio and what doesn't are viewed as equal representation to the entire music buying population of the US. It's stupid. BBH100 should be based on sales and sales alone. If they're going to include anything else streaming is much more sensible.

Edited March 29, 201114 yr by Bray

I agree. And in the UK, some of the radio stations that are massive play such stupid music.

 

Not to mention, including airplay greatly benefits MOR acts, like The Wanted, Olly Murs, Michael Buble, etc, and hinders genres such as rock and hip hop (in the UK), which I also don't like the sound of.

 

Then, in the UK, there's those stations like Radio 2 which get loads and loads of listeners, yet none of the people listening seem to buy the songs they play.

Despite its complicated formula, Hot 100 is pretty close to the perfect measure of popularity.

 

Agreed. Anyway charts are made for music companies, labels. Their representative decides what should be included in the chart. Charts are not being made for public despite the fact they are published as a marketing tool to measure popularity of singles/albums/etc.

BBH100 should be based on sales and sales alone.

 

Billboard have the chart for that already as well.

 

If there's a problem in Billboard it's probably that they have a chart for everything which is slightly ridiculous sometimes.. For example they have a chart for uncharted acts. Although like flatdeejay said, charts are for music industry not for public but still.

Edited March 30, 201114 yr by SKOB

Billboard have the chart for that already as well.

 

If there's a problem in Billboard it's probably that they have a chart for everything which is slightly ridiculous sometimes.. For example they have a chart for uncharted acts. Although like flatdeejay said, charts are for music industry not for public but still.

 

He was saying that the sales only chart should be the official chart, I think.

 

At the moment, the official chart in the US is the one that includes airplay, etc. Only radio-friendly songs get to official #1 in the US.