YouTube will no longer count paid advertising views when compiling its YouTube Music Charts for 24-hour record debuts.
The Google-owned video site said in a blog post that it made the change to maintain consistency and credibility across its platform, as well as to align with the policies for charting services such as Billboard and Nielsen.
YouTube’s processes for compiling its charts have faced scrutiny of late.
Earlier this month, Elias Leight of Rolling Stone reported on Latin music labels spending tens of thousands of dollars on YouTube TrueView ads to boost their artists’ placements on the video site’s charts.
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