In simple terms: Premium streams are now weighted 20% higher, and ad-supported streams are weighted 33% higher

W free users

ICEMAN soon 🧊😈

stat pad era

Right on time for Drakes album how convenient

Botman bout to bring all the bots out for this one

Now will RIAA do this @op 🤔

He probably new ngl

for sure

Remains to be seen

radio killaaaaa

Now that would be huge....

yk what else is massive

This was 100% a reaction to the abysmal performance of new music in 2025

radio should not be having that big of an influence on the chart, the change is good

Hundred percent

2026 gonna look like everyone selling out the store now

based off this how much could some of these albums have done

I wonder what effect this is gonna have on albums. Will they get even longer now that less streams = more numbers, or will artists no longer feel the need to pad out their projects with as many tracks as possible?

Would love to see someone good with math post how much recent albums would’ve sold with these rule changes

It depends on the ratio between free and premium streams but in general gotta be like 1.3x or something

E.g. 10M free streams + 10M premium streams
Before: 8000+2667=10 667 units
After: 10000+4000=14 000 units (+31%)

15M free + 5M premium
Before: 4000+4000=8 000 units
After: 5000+6000=11 000 units (+37.5%)

If it was only free streams, it would be +50% units
If only premium => +25% units

this ratio

Just in time for Roddy Ricch

Who the hell cares

Now number nerds will say if this was the old system this artist did flop!