change in BB country chart
Nov 12, 2004 18:22:45 GMT -5
Post by smack on Nov 12, 2004 18:22:45 GMT -5
Here's my thoughts on the following: Artists like Reba/Terri Clark wouldn't have hit #1. Songs like Tim's last #1 would've been #1 for probably 2-3 weeks longer. We will have less #1s each year. The songs will now be ranked the same order as on the Hot 100, unless crossover play is had. I think this is a good change for them at this point. We also might see another slowdown on some songs, but a speed up or down the chart as some larger audience stations will have more control over a song....and if they drop them completely, that could have a very large impact on the chart. I also think we could see higher and higher debuts, as the larger markets tend to overplay songs from the getgo!
November 20, 2004
Singles Minded: Country Returns To Audience-Based Chart
BY SILVIO PIETROLUONGO, MINAL PATEL, WADE JESSEN
After 12 years of being ranked by total detections, songs competing on Hot Country Singles & Tracks will be tallied by total audience impressions starting with the Billboard dated Jan. 15, 2005.
The change from Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems-supplied detections to audience-based rankings (also provided by Nielsen BDS) is the result of more than a year of close scrutiny of the chart and extensive dialogue with a broad cross-section of chart users, including radio, label and music publishing readers.
The country chart was the first Billboard list to convert to monitored airplay rankings in January 1990 and was based on audience impressions until the end of the 1992 chart year.
At that time, the chart was converted to detection-based rankings because of a consensus among labels that the audience system placed a disproportionate level of influence with large-market stations and devalued airplay at smaller stations that served significant sales markets. Conventional wisdom along Nashville's Music Row at that time also held that smaller stations were generally more receptive to songs by new and developing artists than their large-market counterparts.
In today's radio and record label climate, those long-held assumptions are simply no longer the case, having been negated by corporate radio consolidation and federal deregulation of the industry. Under this new business model, label-sponsored spin programs have become more prevalent, which in a format already heavily influenced by late-night syndication has led to some recent chart anomalies.
Ranking songs by audience rather than detections is an infinitely more scientific and specific method to assess the reach and frequency of songs. Under the audience system, detections at each monitored station are cross-referenced with Arbitron audience data for that exact time of play.
Audience data is already utilized for other Billboard charts, including The Billboard Hot 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, our four Latin radio charts and billboard.com's Christian airplay charts.
No matter which method you use this issue, Lonestar's "Mr. Mom" leads Hot Country Singles & Tracks. It rises 2-1 on the current detections-based chart and also dominates the Nielsen BDS country audience tally for a third consecutive week.
The track also leads the former with 4,662 plays and crowns the audience scorecard with 35.2 million estimated listener impressions.
November 20, 2004
Singles Minded: Country Returns To Audience-Based Chart
BY SILVIO PIETROLUONGO, MINAL PATEL, WADE JESSEN
After 12 years of being ranked by total detections, songs competing on Hot Country Singles & Tracks will be tallied by total audience impressions starting with the Billboard dated Jan. 15, 2005.
The change from Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems-supplied detections to audience-based rankings (also provided by Nielsen BDS) is the result of more than a year of close scrutiny of the chart and extensive dialogue with a broad cross-section of chart users, including radio, label and music publishing readers.
The country chart was the first Billboard list to convert to monitored airplay rankings in January 1990 and was based on audience impressions until the end of the 1992 chart year.
At that time, the chart was converted to detection-based rankings because of a consensus among labels that the audience system placed a disproportionate level of influence with large-market stations and devalued airplay at smaller stations that served significant sales markets. Conventional wisdom along Nashville's Music Row at that time also held that smaller stations were generally more receptive to songs by new and developing artists than their large-market counterparts.
In today's radio and record label climate, those long-held assumptions are simply no longer the case, having been negated by corporate radio consolidation and federal deregulation of the industry. Under this new business model, label-sponsored spin programs have become more prevalent, which in a format already heavily influenced by late-night syndication has led to some recent chart anomalies.
Ranking songs by audience rather than detections is an infinitely more scientific and specific method to assess the reach and frequency of songs. Under the audience system, detections at each monitored station are cross-referenced with Arbitron audience data for that exact time of play.
Audience data is already utilized for other Billboard charts, including The Billboard Hot 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, our four Latin radio charts and billboard.com's Christian airplay charts.
No matter which method you use this issue, Lonestar's "Mr. Mom" leads Hot Country Singles & Tracks. It rises 2-1 on the current detections-based chart and also dominates the Nielsen BDS country audience tally for a third consecutive week.
The track also leads the former with 4,662 plays and crowns the audience scorecard with 35.2 million estimated listener impressions.