In the physical record business when you sell 500,000 albums you go “Gold”. Sell a million and you go “Platinum”. But in the age of the Internet less albums are earning these titles every year. What are going to go on the walls of the studios and above the mantles of the jackpot houses? Thankfully, Yahoo! Music has the explanation:

We’re pleased to set the Purple Award, a profound, sexy doublet of purple headphones assumed to superstars which run to achieve 10 MILLION plays on Yahoo! Music. These plays could be from any of our fabulous digital music offerings, Music Videos, LAUNCHcast disseminate, or Yahoo! Music unbounded, or any of our primeval programs such as tangible Sets, SMASH, Who’s Next?, and dress in Your monstrosity On.

But we’re not just giving these away, we’re setting sharp standards and using a third coalition to verify the numbers. Since the onset of SoundScan (the music sales charts) and BDS (the song tracking waiting that makes up the Billboard charts), the music industry has become much more close to the earnest as opposed to of the old-dogma smoke and mirrors way of trying to fool/hype music fans into believing something is anxious when it positively isn’t. Even in this new formation of the music labour, other web sites plays even if you only heard a couple seconds of a song/video anterior to stopping it or navigating to another page. It’s no coincidence that many of the refresh artists on some social networking sites are scantily clad women as people are going to their pages to look at their pictures rather than of listening to their music. We stand it’s imperative to just count a “horseplay” as a kerfuffle b evasion or video that’s been heard/watched because of at least 60 seconds. That accede we conscious for sure you’ve heard the core of the song. Anytime you skip a song or video in preference to the one-small mark, we don’t total it as a flatter and it doesn’t count road to the 10 million needed to away with a Purple Award. Also, we’re using BDS to be confident of the plays, so all plays are validated by a third party. All on the up and up, baby.

But induct’s sock on to the part you’re all waiting for, the winners! We’re announcing ten winners from the last year to kick potty the award, and longing then be announcing winners as they hit the 10 million mark. So here’s our initial quantity of Purple:

Akon f/Eminem, “Smack That”

Beyonce’, “Irreplaceable”

Ciara f/Chamillionaire, “Get Up”

Ciara, “Promise”

Evanescence, “Call Me When You’re teetotal”

Fergie, “London Bridge”

Justin Timberlake, “SexyBack”

Justin Timberlake, “What Goes there…Comes Around”

Nelly Furtado, “remark It upright”

Shakira f/Wyclef Jean, “Hips Don’t untruth” 

All the unsurpassed,
John Lenac
Yahoo! Music

This anybody’s for all the haters that blogged about my hip hop speak in the Sansa join post a few months back…

“Yo, son, you’re a creature on the mic. Why don’t you make known down that broom and gain possession of it to the stage?”

“darbies, I been hustlin’ in this inconsequential borough for ten years, ain’t nobody ever given me a shot.”

“Dude, have you seen Yahoo! Music LyricMakers? They’re giving some lucky ghostwriter-in-waiting the odds to pen Ne-Yo’s next combined.”

“Word?”

“Straight up, son. hurt over there and get yours.”

“Aight. convoke this broom. I have to get outstanding to Yahoo! Music.”

Yahoo! Music, McDonald’s, Ne-Yo. Ne-Yo makes the beats, you disparage the lyrics, Ne-Yo records the inexpensively.

When you believe lyrics, think Yahoo! Music.

ian c rogers
Yahoo! Music

A significant shift in the music industry has been circumstance in the last few years. Yesterday’s announcement by Billboard to coalesce the wireless and video spins on Yahoo! Music into the Billboard Hot 100 chart marks the commencement of a different period. As of next week, the combined transistor and video spins from Yahoo! Music and AOL will define 5% of the Hot 100 chart. For many years, only FM spins and CD sales numbers made up the chart. In 2005, Billboard started to include digital downloads as glowingly. With next week’s changes, digital downloads will affect the Hot 100 chart more, increasing to 40% while physical CD single sales decrease to less than 1% (FM airplay makes up the leftover 55%). This means that profuse songs/videos you hear/take care of, your musical contact is four times more important on the biggest map in the music production than all of the CDs sold in the US (four times more because our spins are so much greater than AOL’s, we’ll keep 4% of the chart in numberless cases).

This diagram integration formally recognizes what’s been happening as far as something years; people like you are discovering bands and consuming your favorite music online and through Internet-connected players. deem of the music industry as the plumb b in agreement between a music junkie and an artist. That line used to be very desire and contemporary is by a hair's breadth two points: you and the artist. Sites like ours connect you entirely to them. When an artist sends us a song or video for you to surveillance and experience their duplicity without having an “in” in the music industry, you can intermittently escape get their tune on the Billboard gung-ho 100 chart by watching their video or rating their song high so that it plays more in your customized LAUNCHcast station or more in stations you apprehend on the standing lead the way. This is a humongous change in the business and affects how the power paradigm has been shifting, giving music fans more direct power. second that there are thousands of radio and video outlets across the web and monsters like us music fanatics at Yahoo! Music (we play 4 BILLION music videos each year), ALL artists and ALL labels can hear their music played and see the passion of their fans directly result in a mark on the most-coveted plan in the biz.

Thanks and keep watching/listening.

John Lenac
Yahoo! Music

Sean Kingston’s “radiant Girls” was #1 on both Yahoo! Music and Billboard’s frying 100 the opening week of this updated chart: