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(The quirks of Bllboard's chart rules are partly responsible for that big leap.
New US chart rules, which count YouTube views as well as sales, provide an enhanced incentive to produce attention-grabbing videos, creating a kind of outrage arms race.
Because of Billboard's chart rules, though, Mr. Jackson's albums do not qualify for the Billboard 200, its standard albums chart, since they were all released more than 18 months ago.
It has taken the perfect storm of the right act arriving at the right time, social media becoming truly mainstream, significant changes to the chart rules to incorporate streams and the declining importance of both CDs and downloads to deliver something that could change those "paradigms".
Almost as soon as his bass-heavy minimalist dance track Harlem Shake was propelled to the top of the Billboard charts last month by a viral dance craze and a change in chart rules that took into account YouTube views he was contacted by representatives for retired reggaeton artist Hector Delgado and Philadelphia MC Jayson Musson.
A spokeswoman said: "Owing to chart rules which are agreed in partnership with UK record companies and retailers, data relating to the David Bowie single Where Are We Now? cannot currently be counted towards the official singles charts, as the release is linked to an album pre-order promotion and it is not possible to distinguish album sales from track sales from the retail data received.
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This week on the pop charts, new albums by Madonna and Lionel Richie are hits, and a newfangled chart rule keeps Justin Bieber's new single from reaching No. 1. Madonna's latest, "MDNA" (Interscope), sold 359,000 copies in its first week out, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Special causes were anomalies flagged using established SPC chart rule violations (see Additional file 3) [22].
Upon a chart rule change in 2009 allowing catalog titles to re-enter the Billboard 200, The Dark Side of the Moon returned to the chart at number 189 on 12 December of that year for its 742nd charting week.
Special causes were anomalies flagged using established SPC chart rule violations (see Additional file 3) [ 22].
It, alongside its A-side "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" were not eligible to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, due to the charts rules at the time of their release.
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