Posted February 18, 201411 yr BBC Radio 1's Head of Music has confirmed plans for music streams to be included in the UK Official Chart. George Ergatoudis made the announcement during last night's (February 17) Radio Academy Playlists: What Makes a Hit in 2014? event in London. "So @GeorgErgatoudis has just announced that @BBCR1 will v.soon be including @Spotify streams in the Top 40 charts not just sales!" Earshot Creative tweeted from the event. Ergatoudis later clarified: "To be clear @PeteyJamesDP @littleboots @earshotcreative @BBCR1 @Spotify Not just Spotify, other music streaming services will be included." It means weekly plays from services such as Spotify, Deezer, Rdio and Blinkbox are likely to contribute towards final chart placings. The Official Charts Company launched an Official Streaming Chart back in 2012, but previously denied plans to incorporate the data into the Official Chart countdown. In the US, Billboard started including online streams for its Hot 100 countdown at the start of 2013, which also counts YouTube and VEVO plays. According to the British Phonographic Industry, over 7.4 billion songs were streamed in the UK in 2013, with streaming subscription revenue up 33.7% to £103 million. Source = Digital Spy http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ed2305b7.png Edited June 22, 201411 yr by Rabbit Heart
February 18, 201411 yr I don't think it's a completely bad idea, the question is how and with what method...? I would only include payed streamings. In Germany Streaming was included from this year but the German single chart works differently. They are not counting units but revenue. Only payed Streaming was included where one song has a value of 1 Cent (that's 0.01 EUR). The price of a song on iTunes for example is between 0.69/0.99/1.29 EUR.
February 18, 201411 yr I'm sure they have rules in place for streaming charts, like if someone streams a song 100 times a day does that count as one sale etc. What this might affect are songs not available to stream, that would be mainly music on the ministry of sound label
February 18, 201411 yr This'll slow down the chart immensely, but it'd also prevent 1-14 falls mostly.
February 18, 201411 yr I don't think it's a completely bad idea, the question is how and with what method...? I would only include payed streamings. Yes, definitely *only* paid streamings! Must check out the streaming chart - I have no idea how closely it resembles the sales chart (if it even does)?
February 18, 201411 yr If this kicks in before wake me up leaves its going to have a 324 week chart run.
February 18, 201411 yr Yes, definitely *only* paid streamings! Must check out the streaming chart - I have no idea how closely it resembles the sales chart (if it even does)? Pompeii is still top 20 -_-
February 18, 201411 yr Great! So the charts going to get even more stale! :angry: Plus quite possibly even more youth-oriented - not good from my pov... ;)
February 18, 201411 yr I'm really not keen on this idea. :( There's just so many things that will be affected.
February 18, 201411 yr I am subscriber to napster and they do their own charts, their current top 5 is 5) Avicii- Hey Brother, 4) Jason DeRulo- Trumpets, 3)Pitbull-Timber, 2) Pharrell-Happy, 1) Clean Bandit- Rather Be From that I would say it takes new songer longer to climb their charts, for example can't see the Zedd single in their top 50. Wherever that applies to other streaming sites i don't know
February 18, 201411 yr Here's a link to the streaming chart: http://www.officialcharts.com/official-streaming-chart/ Interestingly there's nothing on the OC's website or their twitter feed about this. I have contacted them requesting for some more information or some confirmation on this, so I shall let you know if/when they get back to me on it. It may be just the Radio 1 chart that's going to combine them in the future rather than the OC given that this announcement's come from Radio1 not the OC. Just putting that out there after thinking about it!
February 18, 201411 yr So many people are so unadventurous with what they listen to. Most people will only buy a song once, but you'll have all those people still rinsing Timber 3 years later. The charts are going to become a Capital playlist.
February 18, 201411 yr Hate the thought of this, but knew it was inevitable. Streaming can not only stagnate the chart but lead to it being manipulated. Like what happened with Dope by Gaga having a number 8 peak in the US because they counted the views of it from the 'Youtube awards' and from an advert that played on youtube with the song that was 31 seconds when they only count anything over 30 secs.
February 18, 201411 yr Well the streaming chart does then seem to be similar to napsters own chart. Zedd's new song only 52 on streaming (although it will no doubt climb) while it's top 5 on downloads/physicals
February 18, 201411 yr I think some people are overreacting. Stay The Night is #21 on Spotify at the moment.
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