Billboard Charts Add YouTube Views Data will enhance rankings to reflect online video activity for the Billboard Hot 100, the pre-eminent singles chart.

Y ouTube is revising the way it calculates the YouTube Music Charts and 24-hour viewership records. Going forward, the site will no longer count paid advertising views towards those tallies.

Paid-ad views will no longer be counted toward the YouTube Music Charts, and artist rankings will now be determined by “organic plays.” Additionally, the Google-owned platform is changing its ...

YouTube is boosting the integrity of its music charts. The video giant will no longer count ad views toward rankings on the YouTube Music Charts, instead relying solely on "organic" views like ...

YouTube has changed its methodology for ranking 24-hour music video debuts to no longer count paid advertising views.

There’s been a lot of noise this week about YouTube Shorts “view count inflation.” But let’s be clear: this change is more about optics than impact.

YouTube views will count less than paid streams on Billboard charts in 2018. Here are the details.

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Billboard Magazine’s music charts are the latest flashpoint in a long running war between the music industry and Google.

YouTube is introducing a major change to its music chart system after discovering that artists and labels were using growth hacks to inflate how many people were watching their videos.

YouTube is removing paid ad views from its Music Chart in order to grant a fairer reflection of artist popularity, rather than their marketing budgets.

From July 6, the chart will include online views of music videos as the rules are adapted to reflect the going importance of YouTube and other video sites as a means of discovering to new music.