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Album charts now count streams as fractional sales

Billboard treats 1,250 paid streams as one album sale in its ranking As downloads faded, Billboard's 200 album chart moved to consumption units that combine pure sales, track sales and streams. Its formula counts 1,250 paid subscription streams, or 3,750 advertising-supported streams, as a single album equivalent. The weighting has been adjusted several times since streaming entered the chart. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Billboard treats 1,250 paid streams as one album sale in its ranking. The figure is taken from Billboard, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.