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Billboard Changes Chart Rules

November 11, 2009 12:06 p.m. by Chris Bosman

Billboard announced that they will be changing the rules to the Billboard 200. As of Dec. 5 that chart will be based on the top 200 selling albums in the country, regardless of release date. Prior to that, the albums chart had rules in place that pushed albums more than 18 months old off of the chart under certain circumstances. Essentially, the new rules follow those of Billboard's Top Comprehensive Albums chart, which will subsequently be replaced by a new Top Current Albums chart, where those catalog rules are still in effect.

 

In addition Billboard is making similar changes to their Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, which will put it in line with how their other genre charts are done. Previously these charts were calculated in a way Billboard never explains through the R&B Core Store Panel, a group of urban music retailers that will be dissolved in the coming year. Both of these changes, the R&B chart change in particular, seem like something that should have already been done.

 

Billboard is also adding a 15-slot Folk Albums chart that will feature singer-songwriters and traditional folk artists, which seems to mean that Billboard is predicting the 2010s to turn out like the 1970s. [Billboard]

 

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November 11, 2009 at 12:52 p.m.

I wonder if they have plans to introduce a streaming music chart? That could be interesting. Especially when Spotify finally launches here.

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