Lol, saw this coming a few months ago when Spotify & AM completely changed their algorithms. The industry is now in disarray and had to beg Billboard to change their algos too.

I love streaming but the damage that Spotify especially has done to music with their latest changes will only be seen by the mainstream in a few years, where it's going to get huge backlash, as everything's now a lot more single based

Even Kendrick would only do 200k with these changes lol.

get used to it, this is the new norm for rap

drake 200k
kendrick 200k
travis 100k (streaming units before he cheats)
lil baby 60k
21 40k

this guy has definitely surpassed The Weeknd at this point to be the 3rd biggest artist in the US

will overtake drake in 2026
taylor in 2027

morgan's latest album is only 300m streams short of having more streams than

life of a showgirl
DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS
HURRY UP TOMORROW

all combined

Only should never be in reference to 300m under any logic

Ken Carson outsold

How would his number have gone down if they are lowering the amount of streams that are equivalent to a sale?

Did you completely misinterpret the rule change?

He just forgot little English he knew after finding out NLU went diamond in France.

allow him, he got flu

The quintessential Drake song.

Honestly surprised it took so long, the fact that Money Trees is at 2B and this is just hitting 1B is crazy

Labels went crying to billboard I see

Or Billboard answered to their owners

Ticket, merch bundles, and all those loopholes would still be a thing if that were the case.

More like they saw that their charts were the weakest they'd ever been and they knew they needed to quickly address it. Streaming should have been reweighed a long time ago, especially when they stopped counting UGC streams.

Curious to see what 21's projections are.

53k

UGC should've been gone

I agree but they should have quickly made adjustments to the way they weighed streaming to accommodate the losses in streams removing UGC would cause. It took them 6 years to address it but glad they've finally gotten around to it.

The biggest hits were averaging 75M US streams weekly 6 years ago. Despite streaming experiencing massive growth since then, the biggest songs today struggle to average 20M US streams weekly. It was something they were always going to have to find a way to fix somehow — at the very least, if streams can't ever get back to what they were, make they have more weight on the charts.

Dammit Michael Buble we were rooting for you

Why?

Removing UGC corrected the metric. What we're seeing now reflects actual consumption. Should they bring back merch bundles too, in order to accommodate low album sales?

That's something entirely different. Streaming accounts for more than 80% of how the masses consume their music today. That weight hasn't been properly reflected on Billboard's charts and now they're making that adjustment.