May 13, 20232 yr I mean, streaming the album vs songs from the album that are in playlists like HH or TTH (not on people personal playlists) it's not the same searching for Miley's album and streaming it from start to finish vs giving her album streams cos she has 3 songs on HH or TTH Yeah, you stream the whole album, you give considerably more streaming points to it than if you stream just the hits incidentally (and most of the time, those big playlists are contributing a pittance because artists rarely have more than 1 or 2 songs on them, which are downweighted and contribute, if you will, ZERO streaming points). If heaps more people actually did stream full albums, they'd be in total control of this destiny, in the same way that the Billboard Hot 100 gets regularly exploited for generous sales ratios that account for regular activity, but not contrived fanbase activity. But then I do think artists like Taylor Swift or Harry Styles do benefit from people who listen to their albums in full, so the system does work in that regard, but the listeners have to show up. Edited May 13, 20232 yr by Dircadirca
May 14, 20232 yr I feel that the streams should be divided into the singles streams and album streams, yet it shouldn't matter what is the source of the streaming: playlist or the album itself. How can we possibly divide it? Let's say if a user streams more than 50% of the tracks from the album within two days (to cover the night periods), these streams will go to the album. If the percentage is less than 50%, then the streams should count to the singles chart. And of course, we need to upweight the streaming ratios after that. The concept might be very unfinished and may need a lot of details, but you get the idea. What I'm not sure is whether the servers will manage to make all of these calculations for millions of streams each week, as it multiplies the amount of them massively.
August 30, 20231 yr Author Updated the positions, although Music Week didn't confirm if David Bowie fell out of the Top 200 (it probably did but I'll await confirmation from ChartsPlus)
October 3, 20231 yr Author Updated again :cool: Just 15 albums released this year have managed to stay in the Top 10 in week two. 13 of those being #1 albums, the other 2 being #2 albums. Can Kylie become the 16th album?
October 3, 20231 yr This is a very insightful set of data. Seeing albums take big falls is the norm now but only 15 remaining top ten is much lower than I could imagine. Physical sales of any significance just evaporate after week one. For everyone. I only ever buy vinyl occasionally now, CD just for my fave. Stream the rest. So I shouldn’t be remotely surprised.
November 20, 20231 yr Author Updated! These stats are so grim: 159 Top 10 Albums so far in 2023 (including reissues) 20 albums stayed in the Top 10 [12.58%] // 139 albums fell out of the Top 10 [87.42%] 32 albums stayed in the Top 20 [20.13%] // 127 albums fell out of the Top 20 [79.87%] 51 albums stayed in the Top 40 [32.08%] // 108 albums fell out of the Top 40 [67.92%] 81 albums stayed in the Top 75 [50.94%] // 78 albums fell out of the Top 75 [49.06%] 89 albums stayed in the Top 100 [55.97%] // 70 albums fell out of the Top 100 [44.03%] 120 albums stayed in the Top 200 [75.47%] // 39 albums fell out of the Top 200 [24.53%]
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