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jeramie cadle's List: you tube and billboard charts

  • Jul 17, 13

    An artist doesn't need to be signed to a label or officially release music to be eligible for the chart, though it will be hard to get to the upper reaches without sales, on-demand play, or airplay adding to the overall tally. Artists don't even need to try for a hit - Baauer and Psy's songs broke through to the mainstream entirely on the enthusiasm of fans and would not have been pushed to pop radio under normal circumstances.

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    • YouTube has become by far the dominant mode of music consumption in recent years, with views far surpassing sales, and in most cases, radio airplay. But it’s going to change the Hot 100 significantly, in ways that are both awesome and potentially awful.
    • Billboard has been steadily adjusting their charts over the past two years to reflect major shifts in music consumption – digital sales, on-demand play from services like Spotify – and the result has destabilized chart data in both obvious and subtle ways,
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