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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Trolling opportunity by war4peace · 2016-02-15 05:02 · Score: 4, Interesting

Let's find a shitty new song and automate streaming requests for it.
United Slashdotters could push a piece 'o' crap album to multi-platinum in like, what, 5 days?

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