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YouTube Era Creates New Metric For Billboard's 'Top 100' : NPR - 1 views

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  • Billboard now incorporates the number of views on YouTube to determine the top songs in the country
    • david masterson
      david masterson on 14 May 13
       
      YouTube Views is new deciding factor when determining top songs in the country.
  • if you turn on the radio, you might not actually hear the song.
    • david masterson
      david masterson on 14 May 13
       
      Creates opportunities for unknown artists that would not otherwise have been there.
  • you used to count sheet music sales.
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  • Yeah. That was the first charts, and then it was jukebox, airplay sales, vinyl, cassette, CDs,
    • david masterson
      david masterson on 14 May 13
       
      None of these previously used materials would have included people just being silly.
  • sales, airplay and streaming - sales still weighs heavier than radio; radio weighs heavier than streaming.
    • david masterson
      david masterson on 14 May 13
       
      Still maintaining a few legitimate measuring methodology techniques.
david masterson

Billboard Makes YouTube Part of Hot 100 Formula - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...e-part-of-hot-100-formula.html

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  • when it was released in May as a free download. But this month its popularity exploded on YouTube, as thousands of fans uploaded videos of themselves dancing — some might say simply flailing — along to the song.
    • david masterson
      david masterson on 14 May 13
       
      Just because they are dancing doesn't mean they like the song. They may have just seen other videos doing the same thing. If this was released in May why did it take so long to make an impact?
  • streaming services like Spotify.
    • david masterson
      david masterson on 14 May 13
       
      Are the numbers correct though? Some people don't pay for streaming music services but listen to it anyway. Doesn't this make the stats incorrect? What about the number 2 song, is it actually supposed to be number one?
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