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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. Not bad by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not bad for a technology that they tried to ban once.

    1. Re:Not bad by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well, when an organization is used to pulling figures out of their collective rectal orifice ('OAMG that download lost us $72TRILLION!!!111!!!BBQ!')?

      Yeah - making up arbitrary stats to converts streams to sales isn't all that hard for 'em either. :)

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  2. So does that also mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That their damages for streaming pirated material go down too? No? Oh how hypocritcal we are. Bastards!

  3. Mathematics of greed by theCzechGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How does this add up with 1 illegal download = 1 missed sale?

  4. Re:Trolling opportunity by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    United Slashdotters could push a piece 'o' crap album to multi-platinum in like, what, 5 days?

    I don't think you need Slashdotters to make that happen.

  5. A cry of desperation by wcrowe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "C'mon guys, we are still relevant! See?"

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  6. but one shared file... by gillbates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When the riaa shares the artist's work 1500 times, that's one album sale for the artist.

    When you share the artist's work once - even if it was never download - that's a grand jury indictment, $250,000 per copy, plus lawyer fees....

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  7. MAFIAA cop math by L.+J.+Beauregard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Streaming is worth a tenth of a cent when we're asked to pay royalties, but a million bucks when we're suing you and twisting your ISP's arm.

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  8. Same standard for pirate streams? by XXongo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will they use this standard for fighting piracy? 15,000 streams from a site = one $11.99 album sale lost?