Oh hell fucking yeah...Radio DJ's watch out. Now artist aren't going to be paying you for spins...They are going to be paying friends to downlad thousands of singles from itunes. One digital download counts for 1000 listener points on the Billboard charts...Also streams from Yahoo, MSN, and Aol carry weight as well.
The internet has took the for front in the music industry based on the powerful presence of the download. make that money apple...And radio DJs, sell them expensive homes, and get you an apartment cause you about to see a pay cut in your payola monies...LMAO
TAZ
Here's the full story...Starting next issue, The Billboard Hot 100 takes another step into the 21st century, as, for the first time, streamed and on-demand music becomes part of the chart's formula.For more than a year, Billboard's charts department has worked with Nielsen BDS to add weekly data from Yahoo and AOL to Billboard's franchise chart.We are eager to add streaming and on-demand data from other services too, but at present, AOL and Yahoo are the only ones that provide weekly, rather than monthly, data to BDS. As it is, that limitation still allows us to start with the two largest providers in the field.This additional data will not affect the chart as much as the Hot 100 revamp of February 2005, when digital songs that Nielsen SoundScan tracks were added to the formula. Initially, we expect those plays to account for about 5% of the chart's total points.Think of that portion as equaling the listenership of several large-audience radio stations. Like digital track purchases, the on-demand data included in this piece offers a more active voice for the consumer, albeit without the commitment signaled by the purchase of a download.Meanwhile, this first recalibration since digital sales moved into the chart two years ago makes an adjustment to account for the vigorous growth that digital distribution has experienced in that span.SoundScan placed the number of digital tracks sold in 2005 at 352.6 million, almost triple the prior year's volume. Track sales grew by 65%, to 582 million, in 2006. Year to date in 2007, digital song downloads stand at 462.1 million through the year's first 29 weeks, up 48% over the same period last year.Consequently, the growth of that sector shifted the balance of radio audience points to sales from the chart's traditional 60-40 ratio to a sales tilt of as much as 70% in recent weeks.To ensure chart continuity and minimize odd fluctuations, Billboard usually gave a slight edge to radio points in the Nielsen Music era, because sales volume can hit peaks and valleys from week to week, while radio audience points remain constant through most weeks of a year.Prior to the inclusion of digital sales, the early years of this decade saw the Hot 100 lean heavily toward radio points, as labels released fewer and fewer retail-available singles.Starting next week, Billboard will divide a song's digital track and retail single sales by 10 on the Hot 100 rather than five (and by four on the Pop 100 rather than two). Even with that adjustment, one digital sale on the Hot 100 will carry the weight of 1,000 radio listeners.The total BDS-posted audience for each song will still be divided by 10,000, as is the case in the current formula.The grand total of AOL and Yahoo streaming/on-demand data posted by BDS Encore will be divided by 500. In most weeks, this formula will yield a chart that derives 55% of its points from radio audience, 40% from digital sales, 5% from streaming/on-demand media and less than 1% from retail single sales.Finally, the chart's radio panel has been expanded to include all currents-based commercial U.S. stations that BDS monitors, regardless of whether those stations qualify for a Billboard or Radio & Records format panel. For example, stations removed from Hot Country Songs' consideration when that chart's criteria was revised last fall will now have a voice on the Hot 100.That will increase the Hot 100's station count by nearly 250 stations.-- Billboard associate director of charts Silvio Pietroluongo orchestrated the Hot 100's new formula.
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