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darkcountry
I found this interesting, Billboard is now monitoring streaming music sites, such as AOL, as part of their ranking process.

The story as follows, and sorry if this is old news:

Billboard Hot 100 To Include Digital Streams

Starting with this week's issue, the Billboard Hot 100 takes another step into the 21st century, as, for the first time, streamed and on-demand music becomes part of the chart's formula. For more than a year, Billboard's charts department has worked with Nielsen BDS to add weekly data from Yahoo and AOL to Billboard's franchise chart.

This additional data will not affect the chart as much as the Hot 100 revamp of February 2005, when digital songs that Nielsen SoundScan tracks were added to the formula. Initially, Billboard expects those plays to account for about 5% of the chart's total points.

Meanwhile, this first recalibration since digital sales moved into the chart two years ago makes an adjustment to account for the vigorous growth that digital distribution has experienced in that span.

SoundScan placed the number of digital tracks sold in 2005 at 352.6 million, almost triple the prior year's volume. Track sales grew by 65%, to 582 million, in 2006. Year to date in 2007, digital song downloads stand at 462.1 million through the year's first 29 weeks, up 48% over the same period last year.
Adam
Is the song on AOL?
darkcountry
QUOTE(Adam @ Aug 11 2007, 11:20 AM) *
Is the song on AOL?


Not yet, usually when a song hits the top 40 AOL starts to carry it, so I would imagine they will have it soon....just keep your eyes out, I am sure its only a matter of time.
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