Anghami is a pretty huge service. They’ll probably use their data too.
Well, if a country doesn’t care about music piracy, then they shouldn’t be included. And China is unreliable so no loss there.
Having Spotify, AM, Youtube, anghami etc... on board is a pretty good start.

If what I posted last page is true, it ignores countries in places such as Asia which by far use their own domestic streaming platform a lot more over spotify/am

essentially becoming the Europe, Australia & US chart

yup

physical sales are pretty huge in Africa, but there’s no way of tracking that.
The chart will continue to improve year after year. You cant expect it to be flawless at the launch. That’s extremely unrealistic.
Now hopefully this will encourage some countries to be better and more reliable with how they track music consumption.

Either way, I dont see why would anyone oppose to this. This is great.

I mean I like it and I think it's a good idea in theory, it's just not entirely reflective on what's popular globally when you take into account how popular domestic streaming platforms are places such as the East, especially in SEA.

I agree that this will likely be improved as time goes on though and I 100% think it's a good idea.

SEA uses Youtube a lot though so at least there's that

No loss? It's 1.4 billion people. You shouldn't call it a world chart then Same goes for India, another billion.

yeah India is another big one effected by this

it's gonna be a very interesting chart to watch, no radio will make it fast paced

Not to be discriminatory but for what an ideal global chart is I don't think its bad that India (or china) would in theory be effectively excluded because its population sizes and hyper local taste would distort a 'global' chart

For example dancehall, reggaeton and k-pop are no longer tied to the local cultures they originated from or just enjoyed near exclusively by the communities they were initially created by.
They have become globally enjoyed genres, who have 'fans' who don't have any cultural ties to where the music comes from. So it would be great to see how songs popularities across different countries translates to global 'overall' popularity.

But with Chinese and bollywood music is near enough not known by anyone outside of those cultures (well maybe it is asia but no in Europe or the Americas). It be very hard to gauge the popularity of the music 'globally' when 2 billion peoples hyper localised taste would distort any form of comparative a***ysis. Any hit in India would be a number one 'global' hit, which isn't really useful when the rest of the world has no idea what the song is

I can see that pov for sure

I suppose there’s no true way to have the best possible reflection of what’s popular globally, I mean the hot 100 itself is far from perfect so I’ll accept it for what it is.

They can always improve it later down the line anyway.

Will JB have enough juice to debut #1? Charts are pretty strong rn

Nah, it’ll def go top 10 though

I'm very interested in seeing what the whole top 200 looks like

Holy s*** maluma and blackpink

Bieber gonna push out BL out of the top 5 record

With chance? Maybe in another lifetime

Is this gonna be another Christian track?

WAP remix. Meg may not like it.

Maybe with a Nicki feat

Nicki has the pure sales Barbz stimulus.