RIAA now includes streaming music in digital gold, platinum awards

[Yecht]

In other news, Meek Millie going to do that mill first week retro style on u nukkas

 

[FreshFromATL]

nikkas gonna start going diamond

no they not, read my post.

 

[RichYung]

I like this...

 

[untaintedbeats]

the industry is a mess..lol

 

[Mac Casper]

*carry the one, add the decimal point*

So Gangnam Style is a Diamond single + 5 additional platinum plaques?

1.5 billion divided by 100. Give the man his plaque

 

[Akademiks]

for u ppl who think ppl can falsify these numbers in a mass way. Youtube x Other Music Streaming websites have teamed with RIAA to form a team to help verify certification applications once submitted.

So you put up a song and get 60 MIL fake views and submit a request to get certified by RIAA. They then follow up with appropriate music streaming sites who then have internal methods of verifying if views are legit or not.

So although not fools proof .. The times are changing. Music will be eventually free.

 

[Mac Casper]

for u ppl who think ppl can falsify these numbers in a mass way. Youtube x Other Music Streaming websites have teamed with RIAA to form a team to help verify certification applications once submitted.

So you put up a song and get 60 MIL fake views and submit a request to get certified by RIAA. They then follow up with appropriate music streaming sites who then have internal methods of verifying if views are legit or not.

So although not fools proof .. The times are changing. Music will be eventually free.

Who the f*ck do you work for?

 

[Mac Casper]

I'm betting all of my Coli cash that if they don't submit the Gangnam Style song for certification then those numbers were falsified

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

we need to go back and award certifications to all the times i rewound songs on clue tapes.

man,fukk you mel.

im growing a freeway size beard and i read this and spit milk on myself.my beard is soaked with milk.

 

[beenz]

does this now mean that justin beiber is the highest selling musician in music history now?

 

[Rapmastermind]

Charts and Sales are dead, literally. Everything will be digital eventually. The music business is slowly but surely moving away from psychical sales. Sure I think you will be able to get them as collector's items. But all music will be sold or received digitally commercially very soon. As for the charts, again albums sales have been down across the board. The Labels are losing a lot of money. This is just a new way to try and elevate an average song and blow it up with those Streams. I don't trust any of those stream, youtube etc sites cause they can have been manipulated as proven by Youtube having to police themselves and labels for have millions of "Fake" views and hits. So again the era of sales are dead. It's over. The digital revolution will be televised, a matter of fact, it's already here.

 

[Akademiks]

Who the f*ck do you work for?

 

[Tuc2DaBoot]

this is simple.

Only count the songs posted from the artist main page/verified account and then when factoring views, each individual ip address count as 1 view.

so @stealthbomber while you may personally stream your song 50,000,000 times. It will only count as 1 view. Unless, of course, you have access to 50,000,000 different ip addresses.

That's not what they're doing though.

That's why Harlem Shake went #1 . They counted EVERY video/stream that had the song in it, even if the clip was just 30 seconds.

You don't even have to have a full song anymore to get on the charts.

And at people who don't see how this will create havoc. You gonna have artists like Rebecca Black supposedly doing Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston numbers.

 

[Bigbigguy]

Artists do make $$$ off Youtube and Vevo so it kinda makes sense

 

[mozichrome]

all this shiit gonna do is cause more threads to be made about song streams

just like yall do with those sales threads