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These video streams (so long as they were on free platforms) would have counted towards the Billboard Hot 100, but only at 2/3rds of a premium stream ‘point’. These are then added together with digital downloads and radio airplay to determine the final Hot 100 chart.Īccording to trusted US market monitor Alpha Data, in its opening chart week (Friday, May 8 to Thursday May 14), GOOBA was streamed 54.17m times across the US, but 56.4% (30.55m) of these plays happened on video services such as YouTube.

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What MBW thinks may have happened here (although we don’t have much more to go on than 6ix9ine’s four-minute video): since May 2018, Billboard has counted on-demand streams via paid subscription accounts as a full Hot 100 chart ‘point’ plays on ad-supported services instead represent 2/3rds of a chart ‘point’ and programmed streams (on ‘lean-back’ radio-style streaming services) count as 1/2 a ‘point’.

However, he claims that, in terms of the Hot 100 chart, Billboard “only counted 31m”.Īdds 6ix9ine: “Billboard illegally disqualified 20m streams so can drop down and the people who bought the No.1, which was Stuck With U, can go to No.1. He appears to suggest that 50.3m figure comes from Nielsen Music/MRC/Billboard itself. All titles this week, as in every week, were put under the same scrutiny.”Ħix9ine explains that, according to numbers crunched by his team, GOOBA was streamed 50.3m times in the US in the Billboard Hot 100 chart week in question.

(iii) As for 6ix9ine’s claim that 30,000 last-minute sales of Stuck With U were purchased on six credit cards, Billboard responds: “Billboard and Nielsen Music/MRC Data conducts audits on all sales reported with access to purchase-level detail, and works with data partners to recognize excessive bulk purchases and remove those units from the final sales total.

That number is more than double any single-week video stream total for any song so far this year.” It adds: “The 30 million streams that 6ix9ine said Billboard counted matches the included chart total for all video plays.

(ii) Billboard says it excludes streams from its Hot 100 calculations that “do not meet long-standing charting parameters, such as U.S.-based-only plays, minimum play length, excessive plays and lack of user verification”.

streams in the Hot 100 chart week to end of Thursday, May 14

(i) In the end, GOOBA attracted 55.3 million combined audio and video U.S.UPDATE: Billboard has now responded to 6ix9ine, with an article clarifying its Hot 100 processes in light his claims.