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Rolling Stone insiders say they’ve worked out the various issues plaguing the launch of their ballyhooed chart and that it’s finally ready for its debut. Said issues include getting the green light from the major DSPs and the labels, as well as nagging problems regarding the sharing and weighting of the data.

The new model will include various features and significant metric adjustments—which the Bible [Billboard] has been talking about doing for more than a year now but has failed to implement in the face of strong criticism from all parts of the business for doing nothing.

http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=316897&title=RS-CHART%3A-IS-IT-SOUP-YET%3F

 

i'm READY

Edited June 26, 20197 yr by eaucitronnée

ByE Billboard.

Señorita for that inaugural #1.



wait 

It will go Tidal way. 

Billboard found packing her things  

NRO coming for her number one!

“Official” Charts are on their way out altogether. There’s really no point in the streaming era where a song that peaked in the 60’s can still go 4xplatinum. 

 

David Bowie and Prince predicted this over a decade ago

bye billboard

People thinking Billboard will be erased  

2 minutes ago, Ari29 said:

“Official” Charts are on their way out altogether. There’s really no point in the streaming era where a song that peaked in the 60’s can still go 4xplatinum. 

 

David Bowie and Prince predicted this over a decade ago

That’s called longevity.

It’s the same as a song debuting #2 and then falling off the face of the earth just because it had frontloaded hype, positions aren’t always accurate to how big a song was overall, only that week.

2 minutes ago, Cain said:

That’s called longevity.

It’s the same as a song debuting #2 and then falling off the face of the earth just because it had frontloaded hype, positions aren’t always accurate to how big a song was overall, only that week.

Which is why looking at the big picture charts don’t really matter. No one had any clue about streaming in the early 2000’s yet Bowie in 2002 was already talking about music being like running water or electricity, something you pay a monthly fee to access, in the future and here we are in 2019 paying $10.99+ a month for Spotify/AM. 

 

These guys knew what they were talking about back then. 

20 minutes ago, umich said:

People thinking Billboard will be erased  

to be honest, i think they'll eventually end up coexisting the same way holland has like three different music charts that all coexist for different purposes

 

there's the dutch top 40 which tracks streams, airplay, and social media buzz on YT, twitter, IG, and FB

there's the mega top 50 which tracks streams, downloads, and airplay

and there's the single top 100 which tracks streams, downloads, and physical singles sales

 

i also think the RS100 songs chart will probably be used more often for midweek headlines, like "#1 single from friday to monday is […]" or whatever

3 minutes ago, Ari29 said:

Which is why looking at the big picture charts don’t really matter. No one had any clue about streaming in the early 2000’s yet Bowie in 2002 was already talking about music being like running water or electricity, something you pay a monthly fee to access, in the future and here we are in 2019 paying $10.99+ a month for Spotify/AM. 

 

These guys knew what they were talking about back then. 

$10.99 a month is more than what people were paying right before the streaming on average. That's $121 per year.

8 minutes ago, Timber said:

$10.99 a month is more than what people were paying right before the streaming on average. That's $121 per year.

I’m not exactly sure what to make of this, I wasn’t really talking about price points. I was just saying that in the late 90’s/early 00’s while at the height of physical sales people like Bowie and Prince could already sense something was coming and predicted the streaming era - they just didn’t have a word for it. Since they got that part right, I could also see them being right about charts no longer existing

 

I can’t find all the pieces I’ve read on their predictions of the music industry but here’s one of David’s

https://www.fastcompany.com/3055340/david-bowie-predicted-the-future-of-music-in-2002

 

33 minutes ago, umich said:

People thinking Billboard will be erased  

Right, lets get real

 

 

On 6/26/2019 at 6:21 PM, umich said:

People thinking Billboard will be erased  

Right? But maybe they can work side by side (kinda the way it was with Cash Box, which many people thought was more accurate than Billboard).

 

The first chart is ready to go:

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/welcome-to-rolling-stone-charts-853157/

You Need To Calm Down peaking at #1 

 

I'm happy this chart doesn't include radio. 

On 6/26/2019 at 8:27 AM, Arxane said:

 

Señorita for that inaugural #1.



#2 sadly

 

YNTCD did peak at #1 - Charts are up btw

 

yeah i dont see this having much effect. Can hardly understand it

Senorita peaked at #1 also