Yes, but dividing by 1000 makes more sense for albums as your adding more than 1 song together before dividing.

I know that, I'm just backing up AcerBen in the misquote in the BBC article.

 

ie, 2,500,000 streams would be 25,000 in the singles chart.

 

 

I emailed OCC earlier (before I found the BBC article) about the albums with fewer 12 tracks thing.. they've responded

 

Where an album has fewer than 12 tracks the two with the most streams are levelled to the average of all remaining tracks, and the sum of all tracks divided by 1000 equals the albums streaming figure

 

The actual analysis for albums with fewer tracks is quite extensive and complicated - we tested this with a large sample of albums and as an example;

 

· The last Foo Fighters album was only 8 tracks long

 

· The average across the 8 tracks is higher than that (on average) across a 12 track album, which means the top two get levelled “less”, therefore the sum of the 8 is not dissimilar to that of a 12+ track album

So then the rule is actually the top two songs get down-weighted to the average of the next N tracks, where N is the number of remaining tracks on the album, but capped at a maximum of 10 if there are more than 12 songs. Or something like that.

 

Isn't the singles chart divided by 100 though?

Sorry, yeah I misread that, I thought it was relating to albums rather than singles.

Edited February 12, 201510 yr by Mango

I emailed OCC earlier (before I found the BBC article) about the albums with fewer 12 tracks thing.. they've responded

Where an album has fewer than 12 tracks the two with the most streams are levelled to the average of all remaining tracks, and the sum of all tracks divided by 1000 equals the albums streaming figure

 

The actual analysis for albums with fewer tracks is quite extensive and complicated - we tested this with a large sample of albums and as an example;

 

· The last Foo Fighters album was only 8 tracks long

 

· The average across the 8 tracks is higher than that (on average) across a 12 track album, which means the top two get levelled “less”, therefore the sum of the 8 is not dissimilar to that of a 12+ track album

Maybe it's because with less tracks you stream what's there more.

 

Eg, at the cinema, there will be more showings of a 90 minutes film than a 3 hour film, so theoretically, they could make more money in a weekend from the shorter film.

 

 

A good rule would be that when an entire album is streamed, points go to the album and not to every track. It would be nice to avoid the situation on the first week where streaming was included and there was loads of Ed Sheeran songs.

I'm not really keen on streaming counting in anything, but trying to see OCC's methodology and reasoning, even though the likes of Ed and Sam boosting up even more on both charts, it seems they have been working hard to make sure that the calculations are fair enough as they have done with the singles chart (though imo it should be 200 streams = 1 sale) but here's hoping that the change is for the better!

 

I don't know if this point has been raised already in the thread but will their be a sales only album chart?

I'm not really keen on streaming counting in anything, but trying to see OCC's methodology and reasoning, even though the likes of Ed and Sam boosting up even more on both charts, it seems they have been working hard to make sure that the calculations are fair enough as they have done with the singles chart (though imo it should be 200 streams = 1 sale) but here's hoping that the change is for the better!

 

I don't know if this point has been raised already in the thread but will their be a sales only album chart?

Yes, I did read somewhere that there will still be a sales-only albums chart.

Yes, I did read somewhere that there will still be a sales-only albums chart.

Great! :cool:

So will there also be a streaming only albums chart? Obviously it works differently to the thing with singles but will this happen also? :thinking:

Edited February 12, 201510 yr by §þiŋŋiŋğ Åđɑм