YouTube Pulls Data from Billboard Charts
Update: 2025-12-18
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YouTube to Stop Providing Data to Billboard Charts: A Dispute Over Stream ValuationYouTubes global head of music, Lyor Cohen, announced that the platform will cease sending data to the U.S. Billboard charts due to a disagreement on how music streams are counted. The issue revolves around the value placed on paid subscriptions versus free, ad-supported streams. Billboard recently updated its rules, valuing two and a half ad-supported streams as equal to one paid stream. However, YouTube insists on equal counting of all streams, regardless of access method. Billboard argues that not all streams are the same, considering factors like active choice versus background listening. YouTube will continue to provide data to Luminate, a key source for Billboards chart information. Cohen expressed hope that Billboard will eventually agree to count all streams fairly and equally.
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