Implementation of Streaming

[Spidey]

Hey everyone!

As we all know in the real world, streaming has been growing rapidly. Much like the real world charts, the game will implement streaming. It will happen in two phases. Beginning in March 2012 (tentative), On-Demand Songs will launch. It will feature streams from sites like Spotify. In February 2013 (tentative), Streaming Songs will premiere and include streams from YouTube.

For On-Demand streams, every song, be it a single release or album release, will be available to stream beginning the day of the song's official release. If you do not want your song, album or artist (released prior to September 1, 2014) to be available on sites like Spotify please post it in this thread. Otherwise, they will be available on On-Demand services the day of their official release.

For Streaming Songs, songs will only receive streams from YouTube and VEVO once the music video premieres. Dates for music videos will be more important than ever now. I will make sure that every song in the past has a fair shot at video streams. As I am doing charts, I will ask if a video (for songs released prior to September 1, 2014) was released for each song on the chart.

Beginning next month, two threads will be opened. One will be for On-Demand streaming dates and the other will be for Music video release dates. Beginning September 1, 2014, if your newly released song, album or video is not posted in either thread, it will not receive streaming points.

If you have any questions about how streaming will affect the game, what charts it will affect and how the new charts will work, please do not hesitate to ask in this thread!

Thanks,
Spidey

[indulgecountry]

While it makes sense for this to be implemented into the game to mimic what the real charts are doing, isn't this just going to be a lot more work for you? The charts are already pretty behind in a lot of areas, so I hope this doesn't just pile on more work for you to make them even more tedious to catch up with.

[Spidey]

Aug 29, 2014 0:03:13 GMT -5 indulgecountry said:

While it makes sense for this to be implemented into the game to mimic what the real charts are doing, isn't this just going to be a lot more work for you? The charts are already pretty behind in a lot of areas, so I hope this doesn't just pile on more work for you to make them even more tedious to catch up with.

The streaming charts will not be my main priority. I intend to focus on updating all the radio charts first. I will only do the streaming charts when I do each new Hot 100.

[Spidey]

Oh!

If you decide release an official audio video or lyric video for a song, please post those dates in the Music Video thread. Those will count for streaming points as well!