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Post by Q3 on Jun 14, 2015 20:35:29 GMT -5
Ghost Town is the only thing that counts until the album is released. The music video now has 4.97 million views and should reach 5 million before midnight (Sunday, 23:59 NY time). Until the album drops, playing the music video seems to be as efficient as streaming Ghost Town. Is it true that streaming GT 10 00 or 15 00 times, after the album drops, will count for the single and as an album? Oops, I forgot some zeros. Clock for the album starts at midnight tonight ET. Everything counts from TOH!!!! |
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Post by 4Ms on Jun 14, 2015 20:36:42 GMT -5
I love the photo of Adam wearing leather pants and sitting in a well-worn leather chair. The setting is probably an office, but could pass for an old British club. Needs a story. Oh, it is just ripe for a story. Perhaps a spy thriller from WWII. Or, I am reading a guilty pleasure fantasy vampire novel and he could easily play the lead. It was my first thought when I saw the pic. Love the WWII spy thriller. Many, if not most, US celebrities were spys during WWII. I nearly fell off my chair when I read that Julia Child was a spy. |
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Post by 4Ms on Jun 14, 2015 20:41:43 GMT -5
Ghost Town is the only thing that counts until the album is released. The music video now has 4.97 million views and should reach 5 million before midnight (Sunday, 23:59 NY time). Until the album drops, playing the music video seems to be as efficient as streaming Ghost Town. Is it true that streaming GT 10 00 or 15 00 times, after the album drops, will count for the single and as an album? Oops, I forgot some zeros. Clock for the album starts at midnight tonight ET. Everything counts from TOH!!!! Because the new weekly charts that include Adam's album start at midnight tonight ET?? EDIT It will be nice for Adam to have 5 Mil on the GT video before all of that starts. Gonna happen any minute! |
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Post by Q3 on Jun 14, 2015 20:43:45 GMT -5
I think we determined a while back that you can stream on demand on free Spotify except perhaps on a phone. Paid Spotify allows you more playlist-sharing options and off-line playing. As long as you're selecting the song and playing it and it isn't playing from the library on your device, it is streaming, and I am doing that with both my iPad and my PC. They had a special offer of $.99 for 3 months and this seemed like the perfect time to subscribe.  On my iPhone it says Available Offline, but we have to stream it online, right? As long as I don't turn on "Available Offline", I'm streaming online? I have wifi, so the streaming would not count towards my data I'm assuming.. Please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding that when you play Spotify offline, the playcount is added when you go back online and relog-in into Spotify. (Paid version only). |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 20:49:41 GMT -5
I looked at it the day you posted and was happy to see a thread and site that hadn't been invaded by glamberts. There have been far too many instances of fans crashing the online homes of strangers in the effort to "protect" Adam or to "inform" the rabble and I think in each and every case it has been a major fail. I love seeing people discover Adam on their own and snark, condescension, and all that is absolutely to be expected in a non-glambert site, it's pefectly normal and so much more exciting to watch if they change their tune without outside influence (which usually turns them against Adam instead of for him). So I'm glad that they have such a long leadtime before people can become members and hope against hope that it remains free and sorry to use this phrase but I can't think of another word that portrays my feelings but "unpolluted" by fans. Well, it certainly wasn't my intention for an army of Glamberts to invade that forum and attempt to browbeat everyone into submission! (Hell, I even cringe when fans include photos of Adam in their avatar when posting in his defence on non-Glambert sites. Not helpful for credibility.) No, I was simply expressing my puzzlement that a forum supposedly devoted to intelligent discussion of pop singers had either long ignored Adam, or (worse) adopted a sneering attitude towards him. But perhaps they were merely taking their lead from that web site's owner, who in his first interview with Adam said at the outset, "How does it feel to know you're never going to be as good as Lady Gaga?"  Anyway, point taken. I know that site of old (I may even have an account there still) and my son is currently an active member. I agree with you, it's a very long way from being a bastion of informed discussion - I've never read the Adam thread(s) but I can well imagine what they're like. I gave up on it years ago, too many raging superiority complexes on display  |
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Post by Q3 on Jun 14, 2015 20:49:46 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I just popped in and saw the info on page 1. I was curious about the statement that YouTube streams definitely don't count for the Billboard 200 album chart. I've always been iffy about it but hedged bets in my long post today: requestadamlambert.com/2015/06/14/priorities-for-album-release-week/ ... I've never seen Billboard publish anything definitively; intentionally vague! But this evening I did an exercise with Taylor Swift's album, which left me pretty convinced that YouTube streams actually do count. Billboard just doesn't want to spell things out. Here's what I found regarding Swift: She sold 34,320 albums last week. With TEA's and SEA's (streaming album and sales), she "sold" a total of 69,507 for Billboard 200 chart. (That means 35K was TEA's and SEA's). On the TEA's, she sold 213K of her current hit, Bad Blood. That's equivalent to 21,300 albums (10 single sales = 1 album sale). That gives you 55,620 total album sales and TEA's. The remaining 14K TEA's are sales of her other tracks and streaming. Her two previous songs, Style and Shake It Off, sold 50,000 copies combined last week so that equals another 5K albums. That leaves us with 9K album units coming from streaming. In order to reach that number it's 9,000 x 1,500 (1,500 streams = 1 album sale). That means roughly 13.5 million streams! Swift doesn't do Spotify, etc. I know there are other on-demand services but not with the reach of YouTube. And her fans use YouTube a lot! So this makes me think that YouTube streams must indeed count for the Billboard 200 numbers. Any thoughts? Thank you! According to Billboard only audio streams count for the Billboard 200. I have listed all the streaming services they count on page one -- this is from Billboard official documents. It is also in many company official documents. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 20:57:21 GMT -5
They had a special offer of $.99 for 3 months and this seemed like the perfect time to subscribe. On my iPhone it says Available Offline, but we have to stream it online, right? As long as I don't turn on "Available Offline", I'm streaming online? I have wifi, so the streaming would not count towards my data I'm assuming.. Please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding that when you play Spotify offline, the playcount is added when you go back online and relog-in into Spotify. (Paid version only). Pretty sure the only thing that happens when you go back on-line is that the artist earns their royalties for the times you played it. Streams are awarded in the week they are done, not accumulated. |
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Jun 14, 2015 20:57:52 GMT -5
One more thing about Amazon Prime, only the old songs are free. If you want to listen to newer songs, you have to buy them. Once you buy them, they go on your cloud. I don't understand how playing the album from your cloud counts for streaming. Maybe I'm just confused, again. Amazon Prime does have some new songs, just not a whole lot of new songs. I streamed Kelly Clarkson's newest album Piece by Piece (released Feb 27, 2015) last month. And there were a number of other 2015 released albums available for streaming. The question is whether or not TOH will be available for streaming from Amazon Prime on release day and that is likely up to whatever arrangements WBR made with Amazon. That the pre-release stream was through Amazon gives me hope. Playing the album you bought from the Amazon cloud does not count for streaming. |
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