Billiboard Will No Longer Count Digital Download Singles From Artists Webstores Towards The Top 100

[BK The Great]

 

[Yecht]

What % of streams do these even make up though ?

 

[JUSTIN HERBERT]

NIKI MINAJ
TRAVIS SCOTT

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

y'all still ain't know all these streaming numbers been cooked. None of it's real. All manipulated. Gone are the days of Soundscan where you knew exactly what was sold each week.

 

[Ziggiy]

I think its dumb personally I mean ALL of these digital downloads are the same damn thing whether they come from an artist website or Amazon or iTunes.

Just seems like another means of screwing over the artist just like when they banned bundles from counting towards sales. Who gives a fukk if a fan gets a t-shirt or a concert ticket with their music purchase? The artist has to have FANS in the first place willing to purchase correct?

 

[Piff Perkins]

Scooter Braun made the call huh...

 

[CarltonJunior]

Just another reason we shouldn't care about sales from a consumer standpoint.

The artists themselves now also need to make sure that they aren't being screwed by this by making sure their contracts don't have billboard sales numbers as barometers for success, but actual raw revenue, which merch should qualify

 

[Iverson_64]

Taylor Swift and Nikki Minaj lost.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

y'all still ain't know all these streaming numbers been cooked. None of it's real. All manipulated. Gone are the days of Soundscan where you knew exactly what was sold each week.

Soundscan was just as bulls#it. Labels use to buy records and manipulate the scans all the time. The only thing that’s changed is the platform.

 

[T-K-G]

I think its dumb personally I mean ALL of these digital downloads are the same damn thing whether they come from an artist website or Amazon or iTunes.

Just seems like another means of screwing over the artist just like when they banned bundles from counting towards sales. Who gives a fukk if a fan gets a t-shirt or a concert ticket with their music purchase? The artist has to have FANS in the first place willing to purchase correct?

Cause you prolly got artists signed to contracts where those numbers mean a lot, this is 100% backed by major labels so they artists can have even less information on their numbers and true worth

Any time artists figure out a way to get their own set of numbers that they can use in contract talks (in this instance the number of single downloads from their own sites)

You get this, a rule to take whatever negotiation power that held, and toss it in the bushes

 

[ThiefyPoo]

I think its dumb personally I mean ALL of these digital downloads are the same damn thing whether they come from an artist website or Amazon or iTunes.

Just seems like another means of screwing over the artist just like when they banned bundles from counting towards sales. Who gives a fukk if a fan gets a t-shirt or a concert ticket with their music purchase? The artist has to have FANS in the first place willing to purchase correct?

They won’t do shìt about radio .

White boy got 80M in radio wtf .

 

[Art Barr]

Good keep the digital fraud in check.

Tired of.people using web farms powered by a hamster on a wheel. Or a goat piss'n on a low key turbine.
to power some bullshyt web farm.
off the grid in Bangladesh somewhere.


Art Barr

 

[prophecypro]

This is bad and not the outcome I think artist wanted when hearing that they were revising the rules.

A digital download is more a clear correlation than even streams.

I think a lot of the underground/less mainstream artist that have loyal fanbases might suffer from this (Griselda, Nas, Gibbs) because their audience rocks wth their merch site and direct downloads/Vinyls made to order etc

 

[RichYung]

This is fukked up.

 

[Ellen Degeneres]

K-pop going under