However with the two big problems we have discovered with the Top we can only conclude Joel Whitburn's method correct. So the system that has been in place up to and even into this year is the best. Today there are several component charts that contribute to the overall calculation of the Hot Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data'.
Hot Singles Sales : per Billboard 'the top selling singles compiled from a national sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled, and provided by Nielsen SoundScan'.
Hot Digital Songs : Digital sales are tracked by SoundScan and are included as part of a title's sales points. For many years, a song had to be commercially available as a single to be considered for any of Billboard's charts. At the time, instead of using SoundScan or BDS, Billboard obtained its data from manual reports filled out by radio stations and stores.
Prior to the official implementation of Nielsen SoundScan tracking in November , many radio stations and retail stores removed songs from their manual reports after the associated record labels stopped promoting a particular single. Thus songs fell quickly after peaking and had shorter chart lives. Today, all of Billboard's charts use this technology. In December , the policy was further modified to allow tracks to chart on the basis of airplay alone without a commercial release.
This change was made to reflect the changing realities of the music business. While we agree it was necessary to change the rules to 'airplay' as we will explain below, this must be one of the most unacceptable ways in which to record the success of a song.
However it was necessary and was not in any way a conspiracy to advantage today's artists over say Elvis as many have suggested. We think not but it would be somewhat consistent with what they have done with Elvis].
Billboard has also changed its Hot policy regarding 'two-sided singles' several times. Even with Elvis' worldwide smash hit A Little Less Conversation many incorrectly claim Elvis was robbed of a number one hit in the USA because of Billboards airplay counting system, this is wrong because the change was made as singles sales started to die and in fact did basically become extinct.
It has been quite sometime since music stores have carried CD singles and years since they were a dominant force of customer interest. Just on A Little Less Conversation , yes it was the biggest selling single in the United States in , but be honest how much competition did it have? With the single dying and record companies preferring to sell albums it could be argued that Elvis may not have been number one if the industry was still strong on physical sales.
Truthfully we will never know, but the fact is the charts are calculated in a certain way today and A Little Less Conversation did not make it to number one. So Elvis was not 'robbed' here. By the way, the 'single' is making a comeback via downloads, iTunes etc and we will surely wee a return to at least a more balance method by counting actual sales before too long.
Earlier this month Billboard announced 'With the ascension of Love , Rihanna becomes just the seventh artist to notch at least 11 Hot No. Elvis should be sitting in the second place but he is no longer even in the top Billboard is mainly aimed at distributing information to radio stations as a feedback as to what is popular today [currently mainly as told to them by the same said radio stations] and their interest lie in promoting themselves and the companies that advertise in the magazine and we know that Sony do not have a huge budget to advertising Elvis which is an annoyance to some fans but a commercial reality if the truth be told.
As the announcement that Mariah Carey had surpassed Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most No. So it does seem very much that first they removed one of Elvis' hits in by deciding that no longer counting double sided hits would be a good way to make way for Mariah Carey but then that proved to be insufficient so they went further and dumped Elvis' hits prior to August 4, The question must be asked, why the rush? Could it be that they fear with downloads bringing the potential for single chart data to be once again based on sales that somehow they would miss there chance to make these announcements?
Whatever it is : we conclude Billboard are only interested in themselves and those that fund them in advertising more than being an accurate chart company. Bring back Cashbox anyone? Is it possible that after Billboard removed one number one from Elvis and after the strong Elvis fan reaction to this they decided to remove Elvis altogether, and his fans? As it stands today we think music history is being distorted by Billboard to suit corporate greed. Billboard are wrong and both EPE and Sony need to be active about correcting this.
I wonder if given his current contact inside Sony Brian Quinn might help out here. This contact is an Elvis fan who has been pushing Sony successfully into getting the RIAA to certify yet more gold discs. It is clearly outrageous for Billboard to change the rules like this after all these years. So if they copy Billboard's example I guess we can expect to be told that all Elvis' fifties number ones no longer count!!
As you know from my previous articles the main Billboard chart has always disavantaged Elvis since it is not based on sales. If it had been Elvis would have remained automatic top ten right through to late and indeed would very likely have had top ten hits in every year until he died.
All UK charts are sales based and always have been even if their method of compiling varies and can produce some contradictory results. It was downright weird of Billboard to start producing sales charts only after -long after -singles had stopped selling in any numbers. Billboard appear to be a law unto themselves. Most people in the music business know that Elvis Presley is the number 1 recording artist of all time and that his records sold when teenagers did not have itune to down load music or music store in shopping centres for that matter even in the local 7 eleven stores petrol station and any big department store if they wanted to purchase a record first you had to save up for a month then get to a record stores that hopefully sold it.
Whitney Houston's 11 chart-toppers put her in eighth. Madonna has 12 No. The Supremes also had 12 No. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, topped the charts 13 times. Whenever Rihanna releases her next album, she'll surely rise, but for now she's in fourth with Elvis Presley's 18 No.
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Check out the 50 best-selling music artists of all time by album sales:. Elvis Presley is number one and always will be number one. He was so amazing!! Certainly a precious gift from God for us to enjoy!! Elvis was a great singer. To bad he ruined his marriage to Priscilla. He did a lot of wrong. Please enter your comment!
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