Andrew Johnson's List: Billboard Top 100 And Youtube

• • This article is credible because it comes from a non biased source from an internet industry online magazine.
• Billboard's YouTube data is limited to "all official videos
• Vevo clips, and user-generated videos that are using "authorized audio." In other words, only legitimately used songs can be included in its charts.

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• • This article is reliable because the writer is interviewing the source of the information.
• The notion that a song has to sell in order to be a hit feels a little two or three years ago to me
• has started to learn that there are lots of different ways a song can be a hit, and lots of different ways that the business can benefit from it being a hit.”
• Billboard’s charts are based on data collected by Nielsen SoundScan, which has also been modernizing its data.
• When the service started in 1991, it gave the music industry its first reliable, third-party sales data, transforming the way record labels, retailers and others did business. Now Nielsen also tracks radio plays and most major streaming services.

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