Billboard Charts Go Digital (Now With Even More Rihanna!)
While we focused on superstorms and elections over the past month, a certain famous American business made a big change right under our noses.
Billboard magazine, long seen as the ultimate tastemaker in American pop music for its top singles list, decided to join the 21st century by revising its algorithm to include digital sales and online streaming services like Pandora and Spotify when determining which songs are most popular in a given week.
Sounds like progress, right?
Quite a few people in music don’t think so, because these changes give “stars with a pop-oriented sound and broad crossover appeal an advantage over other artists”.
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