<h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 2.4em; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; color: var(--iq-title-text); letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">Billboard Charts - Are They Accurate?</h1>
<p><img style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; border-style: none; max-width: 44%; color: #585858; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px 10px; width: auto; height: auto; max-height: 317px;" src="https://i.imgur.com/VvWGEc6.jpg" alt="billboard charts" align="left" /></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #585858; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">Whether or not Billboard charts are accurate can be debated. They have been around for a long time. They measure the sales and popularity of music. They're a metric to show where the industry is heading. But as the internet has changed, Billboard has had to rethink its methods.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #585858; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">One of the Billboard charts is the Hot 100, which is a metric that counts radio airplay, album sales, streams, and other digital media. The chart's formula has evolved over the years, and has been tweaked to fit the changing industry.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #585858; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">In 2012, Billboard introduced a system that combined digital downloads and streaming to make up part of its airplay-only charts. This method isn't perfect, however. Some fans claim that it's not an accurate measurement of the popularity of songs.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #585858; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">Another way the charts do the math is by taking into account positive engagement with social media. This means that music with a high number of streams from YouTube will have more weight than songs with no streaming data. Similarly, albums with a high number of sales will be more valuable than songs with no sales.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #585858; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">Finally, the Billboard Hot 100 has a few new tricks up its sleeve. It now counts subscription streaming music services such as Spotify. It's also worth mentioning that Billboard recently announced that its new charts will include a video data component.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #585858; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: #ffffff;">The best seller is a metric used to identify songs that have been breaking records. The Billboard system also includes re-entry, which is a fancy way of saying songs that have been out for a while.</p>