Bleedin Heck

As it should be, one listen one sale, ip excluded from there on. that includes vpn ip's.

I'm not sure where you are going with this. My point in this thread is 300k people got in the car, bus, train and went to brick and mortar to buy that song. 301k turned on the phone and asked AI (slight overreach on both sides, but you get the drift). Is it really comparable in the artist with 301k streaming gains a reward for over taking a song that 300k actually got out of the house to buy

Excellent point, but we are in a forum that prefers constant change rather then what people are listening too. Maybe we should have "Legendary" posters to go along with "Legendary Artists". You know, out of touch with todays music but still involved (I'm joking before anyone says anything)

I get that. I think it was two years ago on the US Charts,the number 1 album had sold 2k of physicals and ABBA's "Voyage" had sold 77k physical and came in at number 2 and I was like "how does that happen?"

I think I touched on everything you have said. So many areas though that the basic question I asked could go lol

We see it all the time, This artist breaks that 50 year or 40 year record etc... But are they really? We would be foolish to think record companies and/or artists are not paying streaming services to push certain songs. It is rather balant at Xmas time when you ask AI to play an Xmas song, but it is happening all the time. So what is more real to you, what record is real, the 300k or the 301k? We know that dedicated buyers would of existed way back then, going from chart listed stores buying Physical copies, but I feel it would not be as prolific as "Buying streaming time" now. What is more real, getting of your butt going to a brick and mortar and buying or "Alexa play..."? and should artists be credited with breaking records from the days of pure sales?

I find it funny that "Who" gets mentioned so often always alluding some kind of corruption going on. Go to any artist forum on this site and you will find "Urging" by other posters to stream this 10 times a day, stream that 10 times a day". Whats the difference between that and "Who"? Go to any artist group on any other site and you will find the same thing. Streaming is Payola all over again, in it's current format it is corrupt therefore making the the weekly charts corrupt. Don't ask me what the answer is, I have no idea, but it cant continue.