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Billboard Hot 100

Tracking week :

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Sales & Streams

Friday 12AM EST - Thursday 11:59PM EST

Friday 2PM KST - Friday 1:59PM KST

Streams

Paid Streams

→ Full Point Value per play

Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify Premium, Tidal, Deezer, etc

*** Free Trial is counted

Non-Paid Streams / Ad-supported

→ 2/3 Point Value per play

Youtube, Spotify Free

Programmed

→ 1/3 Point Value per play

Pandora

Sales

Only - 1 - digital sale will be counted per customer per week for songs and albums

 

Bulk purchases" of 2 or more will not be counted

Radio Airplay

Radio Airplay is an important part of the Billboard Hot 100's scoring system. Radio Airplay based from number of times song is being played on US radio.

BB HOT 100, how many (streams, sales) equivalent one point: (new rules)

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Paid streams: 125,000 (1 point)

Free streams: 187,500 (1 point)

Programed streams: 250,000 (1 point)

Airplay: 600,000 (1 point)

Pure Sales: 500 (1 point)

 

Minumum to enter Hot 100 => 52 points

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