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YouTube pulling out of Billboard charts
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Young boy billboard days are over
too bad he don’t need them
too bad he don’t need them
Pure Water
Veteran
The music industry is going through a metamorphosis right now.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Disproportionately hurts rap, Latin, and r&b acts. Also hurts the weirdly successful white acts who would bubble from underground into mainstream like Blackbear, G-Eazy, and country acts who don’t have Nashville deals.
Youngboy takes a big hit but a lot of established successful artists do too. Weeknd gets a lot of YouTube streams. Same with Eminem and Beyoncé.
Youngboy takes a big hit but a lot of established successful artists do too. Weeknd gets a lot of YouTube streams. Same with Eminem and Beyoncé.
Is this a serious post? The Billboard charts has been the standard to gauge what's the most popular songs & albums in the country for many decades.
So in 2025 venues won't book you unless you chart on the billboards?
Like do you look on billboard before you listen to an artist or something?
It’s like in sports players winning awards. Winning awards will give them leverage in future contracts, deals. It’s not that hard to understand.
prophecypro
Hollywood North
There’s been a constant shift on what is happening with billboard. There’s this, the rule about how long singles can stay on (which resulted in no rap songs on the chart in 35 years thing)
The industry is shifting
The industry is shifting
Shifting indeed.
That's why my album is up for sale now on CD directly from me to my fans.
I'm not paying to have it registered on Spotify.
At least for now.
Anyways artists health, teamwork and vision will cut through corruption as always.
That's why my album is up for sale now on CD directly from me to my fans.
I'm not paying to have it registered on Spotify.
At least for now.
Anyways artists health, teamwork and vision will cut through corruption as always.
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
Logically, I side with billboard here
The whole point when they created the SEA (streaming equivalent album) metric was to approximate how many streams it took to generate the same revenue as one traditional album sale…paid streams generate more revenue than free (ad-supported ones), and they weighed them in accordance with that….the idea that “every stream should count equally” seems fallacious on its face…and that’s just the plain dollars and cents of it, before you even take into account the fact that the ad-supported models are dominated by algorithmic autoplay passive consumption …it’s not a perfect analogy but it’s roughly the same difference back in the day between buying an album or single back in the day versus just turning on the radio and listening to what the program director (today the algorithm) chose for you to hear
flattening things so that a stream is a stream is a stream , changes the entire premise of what billboard has always meant to measure …there are sub-charts that billboard puts out that roughly measure what YouTube claims to want, it’s just kinda understood that those aren’t the “real” charts…YouTube pulling out seems like positioning to try to shake the labels for money and likely has something to do with AI will affect the industry going forward is my guess
The whole point when they created the SEA (streaming equivalent album) metric was to approximate how many streams it took to generate the same revenue as one traditional album sale…paid streams generate more revenue than free (ad-supported ones), and they weighed them in accordance with that….the idea that “every stream should count equally” seems fallacious on its face…and that’s just the plain dollars and cents of it, before you even take into account the fact that the ad-supported models are dominated by algorithmic autoplay passive consumption …it’s not a perfect analogy but it’s roughly the same difference back in the day between buying an album or single back in the day versus just turning on the radio and listening to what the program director (today the algorithm) chose for you to hear
flattening things so that a stream is a stream is a stream , changes the entire premise of what billboard has always meant to measure …there are sub-charts that billboard puts out that roughly measure what YouTube claims to want, it’s just kinda understood that those aren’t the “real” charts…YouTube pulling out seems like positioning to try to shake the labels for money and likely has something to do with AI will affect the industry going forward is my guess
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The music industry just needs to die already. All them and Hollywood do is find ways to adapt so they can keep bending ppl over.
