YouTube Streams Will Once Again Count Towards The Billboard Top 100 Charts

Well it looks like music artists are about to get a little boost in their streaming credentials as YouTube will now once again be able to count towards an artist’s overall streaming numbers when it comes to Billboard’s Top 100 lists.Recently, legendary music executive, Lyor Cohen posted on a blog on YouTube stating that as of January 16, 2027, YouTube and Billboard will once again be partnering up to allow YouTube streams to count towards Billboard’s Top 100 and Top 200 lists years after YouTube pulled out of their original partnership. As to why YouTube made the decision to part ways with Billboard in January of this year, it was due to the people over at YouTube feeling that Billboard’s ad-supported model was being used in a bias fashion as the album consumption units on the Billboard 200 had to equal 2,500 ad-supported streams and 1,000 paid-subscription streams for a single album sale. YouTube felt this prior ad-model created a disadvantage for artists on their platform. Under it’s new agreement, album consumption units will total 1,500 ad-supported streams for that “one sale” going forward.“Billboard uses an outdated formula that weights subscription-supported streams higher t...