U.S. Streaming Chart
Bob, you’re killing me.The U.S. launched a streaming music chart in March, months before this UK chart. It’s called the On-Demand Songs Chart. It’s a Billboard chart that measures all songs played on-demand on Spotify, MOG, Rhapsody, Rdio, Slacker, Muve and soon Zune and Sony Music Unlimited.
You can find it here: http://www.billboard.com/charts/on-demand-songs
The data from that chart also now influences rankings in the Hot 100 as well.
When I left Billboard I started consulting w/ NARM’s digitalmusic.org division, and this was the first thing we did with Nielsen/Billboard and our members (all of the music subscription services).
Just saying…
Antony Bruno
Community Manager/Advisor
digitalmusic.org
Well, I was wrong, turns out there is a U.S. streaming chart…
But why do they call it "On-Demand" instead of streaming?
And why does Nielsen/Billboard not promote it?
As for BigChampagne’s "Ultimate Chart", I’ve yet to figure that one out…it seems as trustworthy and believable as the voting on Dick Clark awards shows.
We need one new chart based on bedrock statistics with no interpretation or weighing to quantify what’s going on in music.
Trumpeting SoundScan is like citing MTV clip rotation.
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While I’ve got your attention:
