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With YouTube, do they only do MVS, or do they add the lyrics and audio videos to the streams as well?
Hi Madi!
All relevant videos are included, even user-uploaded live versions etc, we only ignore videos where the main theme isn't the song (say a dance practice or an anime video).
By the way, as I said on Beyonce's comment the change of streaming conversion for Miley's ESV wasn't what I expected but a bug, it has now been fixed!
Hi Madisonpurple! We are added pure album sales figures for most relevant albums from recent years, ESV was one of them!
Then why are artists with a large number of streams from Asian countries not affected by this, except for Miley? Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez are the most consumed American artists in Asia. Miley's main market is Latin America and Europe. All singles from Endless Summer Vacation received the majority of their streams from the U.S.A and Europe. Are you going to adjust it back to 4.7m + 300k = 5m EAS or not?
Miley isn't even huge in Asian countries. The only song of hers that's currently big in Asia isn't even from Endless Summer Vacation. You're literally reducing her EAS for no reason, and many of us were considering subscribing to your website just to vote for her sales to be updated. Fix it back. Also, calibrating only Asian streams is a bit of a racist.
Bestie it hasn't been fixed. Can you please look into it, it's been two days?
Hi Harry007/hermione008!
The update dropped Taylor's EAS by over 3 million this week, I would say she has been pretty much affected 😉 and we can expect a second similar update in the upcoming months seeing at how markets continue to evolve.
And then, it's about when you got the streams. Selena Gomez for example got the huge majority of her streams before the explosion of Spotify in markets like Vietnam. We apply ratios to the relevant part only. Say an artist gets 10b streams on Spotify with a calculated 80% streams elsewhere, now the same artist is at 15b and we calculate that he is getting 70% of streams elsewhere. Then the total EAS will be based on 10*1.8+5*1.7 = 26.5b streams. Also Asia was only an example, YouTube also decreased its strenght a lot compared to audio platforms from some years back. We can see in the article that Bangerz got twice as many streams on YT than on Spotify as of the last update, now Flowers has more streams on Spotify than YouTube.
About remaining artists, it's worth noting that it's an ongoing process, for now recalculations only happened for albums for which pure sales have been updated over the last days.
Doesn’t explain yesterday you said it was a bug but you still haven’t fixed the numbers
Oh! I haven't got the file for that breakdown right now, but it did roughly 160k in the US, 27.5k in the UK, 25k in France, 15k in Germany, 7.5k in Japan and Canada.
About the 4.7m figure, that one was no doubt a glitch, ESV has less streams than Plastic Hearts, the current figure instead does make sense.
