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: