Historically pranked with novelty songs, these charts now incorporate streaming platform plays as a metric for tabulating rankings.
When the official singles chart incorporates streams next month, 100 streams on a service like Spotify will count as the equivalent as one download from a store like iTunes.
Apple's iTunes charts are an industry staple for downloads, and once the UK's official singles chart incorporates streams as well as sales, it'll finally be an accurate reflection of what people are actually listening to, as opposed to buying.
And just a few minutes ago, it released its latest update, which incorporates streams from Google Buzz, Foursqaure, and more.
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".
In 2014, Billboard began incorporating streams in the formula that determines its album chart.
"But what that doesn't capture — and one of the things that's being brought into play by incorporating streams and song sales — is the continuing popularity of an album". .
The TX-8050's network functionality enables owners to incorporate streaming PC audio and Internet radio into their main entertainment system.
This year's most impressive sets from LG and Samsung are not only 4K but curved, like the screen in a cinema, and solve a conundrum that's plagued 4K since its consumer inception - where's the 4K content? - by incorporating 4K streaming services from the likes of Netflix.
Helping to ease the bandwidth concerns are ever-faster modems and new compression systems that have been incorporated into streaming audio, which is how most music is played over the net.
