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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:43AM 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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My bum is on the rail, My bum is on the rail... by Pezbian · 2016-02-15 07:34 · Score: 3, Informative

Tom Green proved that in a heartbeat with "Lonely Swedish" (Bum Bum Song) in spades back in 1999.
In fact, it was so effective that MTV was called out on their TRL (the "L" is for live) show not actually being live.

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