Billboard ranking to include streams, track sales

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billboard's chart is getting a makeover.

The music industry tracker says it's transforming the Billboard 200 chart from a sales-based ranking to one that better measures music consumption.

The chart currently tracks each week's top 200 albums by sales. The updated ranking will include streaming and digital track sales beginning Dec. 3.

It marks the biggest update since 1991, when Nielsen's point-of-sale data was added to measure album sales.

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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2014 file photo, Taylor Swift performs on ABC's "Good Morning America" in Times Square in New York. The music industry tracker says it's transforming the Billboard 200 chart from a sales-based ranking to one that better measures music consumption. This move comes after music acts like Swift and Jason Aldean pulled their tunes from Spotify. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)


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[onehandle]

1. Taylor Swift's management told her what to say.

And by say, I mean they typed up a press release.

The dinosaurs of the record industry and her cigar-chomping management are struggling in the net.

Streaming is 100% of the future.