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Wow at Lips Are Movin at Top 10!!! I like that song more than AATB. I also agree and surprised that Love Me Harder has great stay in the Top 10. I thought it would reach Top 15 at best. I think it's one of the best track from My Everything so glad it is doing well. Still hoping for Be My Baby as the next single. Nick Jonas is also finding great success with his song too.

NZ singles chart has integrated audio streaming data now. Their rate is 175 streams = 1 download sale.

With the rate that Blank Space is going, Taylor will likely overtake Ed in a few days and be number 1 in two weeks!!!

Huge thanks to Britster for the complete data!!! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: Interesting that Taylor has 24 SEA units when she isn't even on streaming services. So, where did those units come from??

Billboard also confirmed The Hanging Tree entered at number 12. Very impressive and it's still going strong on iTunes.

Looks like many people have cherry-picked the tracks when it came to Ariana's album and obviously Beyonce's re-release. Very impressive TEA units for Taylor, of course thanks to mainly Blank Space.

I wonder if Billboard was underestimating on YouTube's impact towards the chart when they introduced it. With songs like Wrecking Ball and Blank Space, they did have strong digital sales to cement their hit status, in addition to their high YouTube views. It's mostly aimed at songs which is only on the charts for YouTube reasons only, with no legs on sales, audio streaming and airplay, obviously.

So, sales will have a bit more value towards Hot 100 chart points now and streaming to have less. I do wonder about the exact numbers of the new ratios though.

It will sure be a comedy on Billboard 200 next week.

Very good for 1D. Even more amazing for Taylor. Sam Smith might reach platinum threshold before this year ends. I can't tell if 22k is good or bad for Mockingjay soundtrack. It might sell more since Lorde performed Yellow Flicker Beat at AMAs and The Hanging Tree is skyrocketing up on iTunes (granted, the latter is in the Original Score CD). Very impressive for Pentatonix.

So, in short: Digital Sales: 10 track downloads from an album = 1 sale (??) / Audio stream = 1500 streams from an album = 1 sale This is confusing as hell. For the 10 track rules in Digital Sales, obviously single releases should be counted towards singles and not part of the "album bundle". Same should apply for streaming. The question is for how long though? Will it be the standard 20-week run (for hit singles which would last longer than 20, the single drop out the week it charts below Top 40/50, I think) at singles chart then that single switches to track, being replaced with a new one?? Or simply, whenever the label decides to release a follow-up. Even at that, it still looks like a mess. Also, like Brister said, what about albums less than 10 tracks?? What will happen to the Extended Play (EP) releases?? The streaming part speaks for itself, byt what about downloads?? Also, will sale points worth more or the same should someone buy 11+ tracks, let alone the whole album (standard and deluxe)?? MESS.

102k.

Yes. Same as the UK, 100 streams equating to 1 download sale.

What is even more amazing is that Taylor is the only artist to scan 1 million quickly, whereas no other 2014 released albums are even close to passing the platinum threshold.

No Mediocre went gold!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo:

Yup. It showed up when I searched for it on Spotify. There are two versions. One is just the clean one. The other one which is "I Don't Care (The Remixes)" has the explicit version and the remixes. Also, the Cheryl's Spotify artist page is just Cheryl now.

Cheryl's I Don't Care is now on Spotify!!!

Taylor Swift's 1989 debuts at number 1 on NZ albums chart this week with a Gold certification (7500+ copies). According to Official NZ Music Chart's Facebook page, 1989 has the highest first-week album sales of 2014, so far. :cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:

13 tracks in Top 50!!! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: Taylor is slaying!!!

I am hoping Habits will get the next radio number 1 and not that horrendous Bang Bang.

It does but singles sales did have much worse years than this, most notably in 2001 where Mariah's Loverboy was the biggest-selling single but barely scraping gold (500k). Streaming and YouTube obviously contributed to the decline this year. Even IFPI counted audio streaming numbers to their year-end worldwide sales report last year.

Hopefully not that long though. I think she will release it on Spotify after four weeks on release.

After looking at the latest Billboard forecast and iTunes (on both album and tracks), I'll make a prediction of 924k in US opening week.

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Wow at Royals almost reaching 6x Platinum!!! Shake It Off and Stay With Me approaching for the 3x Platinum soon, Fancy is soon to be 4x Platinum!!! Surprised that Stay (Rihanna) is still selling as the song is well over a year old now. Riptide at 600k!!! I do wonder what total streaming numbers are like for these songs without Youtube numbers. Their On-Demand (audio) streaming numbers should be interesting. Will RIAA integrate them towards overall certifications? They seem to be on and off about it. I know in Denmark and Spain, they have streaming certifications now.