June 17Jun 17 Author 2 minutes ago, AcerBen said:LOLWhy the hell aren't OCC doing something to stop this madnessHow exactly is this madness? If a song is popular it deserves to have that popularity reflected in a certification. A song should never be exempt from certifications based on its chart position or lack of one...
June 17Jun 17 The only "madness" is that the song never charted in the first place (For what it's worth, I do think the 100:1 ratio for most, i.e. paid, streams to a sale is overgenerous for an all-time total, and had the OCC chosen 300:1 that might have kept some parity with the sales-only era for a while longer, but we're way past that now.)
June 17Jun 17 I'd say its more testament to how the charts are broken that songs manage to do this without chartingThey clearly are popular
June 17Jun 17 7 hours ago, gasman449 said:How exactly is this madness? If a song is popular it deserves to have that popularity reflected in a certification. A song should never be exempt from certifications based on its chart position or lack of one...I'm not denying that it's popular, but 600,000 is clearly now way too low threshold for platinum if songs that have never made the top 40 can go triple platinum. I don't get why they haven't changed it when they have done in the past when the market has changed.Also what Jim said. Edited June 17Jun 17 by AcerBen
June 17Jun 17 Author 13 minutes ago, AcerBen said:I'm not denying that it's popular, but 600,000 is clearly now way too low threshold for platinum if songs that have never made the top 40 can go triple platinum. I don't get why they haven't changed it when they have done in the past when the market has changed.I would definitely agree that it's way too easy to go platinum now, they should move it back to the 250k silver, 500k gold and 1m platinum. But in the current climate the fact a song that never charted is consistently popular enough to achieve that many "sales" is still a very good achievement and nothing to be sneezed at!
June 17Jun 17 Changing the threshold would make sense but the threshold itself is somewhat irrelevant as it is the same for every song. What’s actually important is the pure number in relation to other hits of the era. If you were to compare it to some big hits at the time I’m sure it’s done more sales which you can’t just ignore cos it didn’t chart at the time. If you want to see which songs were the biggest at the time, just look at the year end. Edited June 17Jun 17 by Maestro
Friday at 16:123 days Author Just one extra track this week- "Alexander Hamilton" by Hamilton Cast, taking us back to 438 (actually 437, counted one song twice by mistake) Edited Saturday at 11:413 days by gasman449
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