February 20, 201213 yr Yeah the Dunk one was the one i was talking about, it was ridiculous, he should have just cleared it!! Glad Liverpool did well, hope they can put the Suarez affair behind them now and win Dalglishs' first trophy for Liverpool since 1990 next weekend. Brighton should try and aim for a Play-off spot and see what happens, Poyet is a decent manager!!
February 20, 201213 yr This is an awful idea! We are going down the line of the America Billboard nonsense now!! Still think CD's will be sold as many people enjoy collecting the physical copies, ironically you might have to end up buying the CD online lol
February 20, 201213 yr You know more about this than me, so I might be wrong, but don't they get paid for showing adverts though. So if a song gets streamed 1,000 times, they'd have to pay more money to the record label/artist/whatever, but they'd also get paid more money by the companies sending them adverts to display or play? I don't really know what I'm talking about though. :lol: It's in the advertisers best interest to prevent manipulation since they are the one who paying the bill. Which mean service that relies on ad (like VEVO) will do its best to prevent cheating. With digital, it's easy to prevent this sort of thing with just some software code. In the old Youtube, you can game the view counter by playing over and over again. Now, you can't. It's easier to "cheat" by buying a song on Itunes, then AMazonMP3 then etc..... 200 streams = 1 download. If you buy 5 downloads of the same song, that's 1000 streams. Edited February 20, 201213 yr by Dust2
February 20, 201213 yr Well, I think it's a good idea to include them sometime, but it needs to change the chart to the income chart rather than the sales one. Like in Germany, where the weight of the physical single, because of its higher price, is bigger than the single digital track on the chart. Streams can be converted to income as well. If you have a 9,99 monthly fee for streams, than this amount can be delivered by 4 to get the weekly fee (2,49) and finally it can be delivered by the number of songs listened during the week. This means if you listen 100 songs a week, each listened song has a 2,5 penny value which it is contributed on the main chart with. The more songs individual users listen, the less contribution the single track has on the chart (because of the fixed monthly fee). What do you think about?
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