BILLBOARD HOT 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard.

Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play, and online streaming.

The Hot 100 formula starting 2013 generally incorporates sales (35–45%), airplay (30–40%) and streaming (20–30%), and the precise percentage can change from week to week. In July 2020, Billboard announced that they would no longer allow sales of physical/digital bundles to be reported as digital sales.

→For Americans/Puerto Ricans

Tracking week :

Sales & Streams

Friday 12AM EST - Thursday 11:59PM EST

Friday 2PM KST - Friday 1:59PM KST

Radio Play

Monday 12AM EST - Sunday 11:59PM EST

Monday 2PM KST - Monday 1:59PM KST

Streaming

Billboard Hot 100's streams is based from the number of times the song is played on stream service paid.

Paid Streams

→ Full Point Value per play

Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify Premium, Tidal, Deezer, etc

*** Free Trial is counted

Non-Paid Streams / Ad-supported

→ 2/3 Point Value per play

Youtube, Spotify Free

Programmed

→ 1/2 Point Value per play

Pandora

Sales

!!!!! For US / PR Onces !!!!!

Buy maximum 4 copies / card

If you pre-order or buy more than that, it's bulk buying which NONE of those sales will count toward billboard charts.

Radio Play

Radio Airplay is an important part of the Billboard Hot 100's scoring system. Radio Airplay based from number of times song is being played on US radio.

BB HOT 100, how many (streams, sales) equivalent one point: (new rules)

Paid streams: 125,000 (1 point)

Free streams: 187,500 (1 point)

Programed streams: 250,000 (1 point)

Airplay: 600,000 (1 point)

Pure Sales: 500 (1 point)

Minumum to enter Hot 100 = >52 points

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