Summary

The analysis leads to a new weighting ratio for paid and ad-supported streaming on Billboard 's album and song consumption charts. Beginning in January, Billboard will update its chart methodology to narrow the ratio between paid/subscription streams and ad-supported streams from 1:2.5 to 1:1.5. The move follows Billboard and Luminate’s annual review of streaming revenue data used to inform methodology for the Billboard 200, Hot 100 and other album and song consumption charts, as well as streaming songs rankings.

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