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The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-that-math-is-interesting dept.

AmiMoJo writes: The RIAA is modernizing its gold and platinum album certifications to include streaming. An album must reach 500,000 sales to go gold, 1,000,000 for platinum and 2,000,000 for multi-platinum. The RIAA set the new Album Award formula of 1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale. Also effective today, RIAA's Digital Single Award ratio will be updated from 100 on-demand streams = 1 download to 150 on-demand streams = 1 to 'reflect the enormous growth of streaming consumption'.

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  1. Re:Math that does whatever you want it to do by wbr1 · · Score: 3, Funny
    It is bible logic:

    Matthew 5:28 "but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

    To think about a song means you have listened and the execs require payment. Just leave your credit card at the door.

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    Silence is a state of mime.
  2. Re:Same standard for pirate streams? by Adriax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Other way around.
    1 download = 1500 lost streaming music subscriptions.

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    I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
  3. Re:Same standard for pirate streams? by mysidia · · Score: 3, Funny

    1 streaming music subscription = $100 / month.

    1500 streaming music subscriptions = $15,000 / month

    1 download = $15,000 X infinity months

    At 1% annual discount rate.....

    PV = $15000 * Limit [x->Infinity] ( 1 - (1+0.01)^x ) / 0.01 = $1.5 Million Lost money PER Download