Starting from January, advertising billboard Some weekly album charts will be updated.
Started with advertising billboard For the charts dated January 18, 2025 (reflecting the Luminate tracking week ending January 9), six long-standing album-type charts will shift from sales-only rankings to consumption-based statistics and expand their depth. Additionally, three originally consumption-based album genre charts will add depth.
The consumption-based album chart compiled by Luminate ranks the most popular albums of the week in terms of equivalent album sales. Units include album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit is equivalent to the sales of an album, or 10 individual tracks sold on the album, or 3,750 ad-supported tracks or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs on the album.
first one advertising billboard The album chart shifted from traditional album sales-based rankings to consumption-based statistics as of December 2014, when the all-genre Billboard 200 ranked overall. advertising billboard‘s album genre charts migrated to consumption-based rankings in January 2017. advertising billboardThe genre album charts will migrate to consumption-based rankings.
Finally, starting January 18, 2025, the Heatseekers Album Chart, which ranks the week’s most popular albums by new and developing artists, will be retired. advertising billboard New artists will continue to be listed on the weekly emerging artist rankings launched in 2017. Measure artists across multiple campaigns advertising billboard Charts, including Hot 100 and Billboard 200. Artists who have achieved two or more top ten hits on Billboard’s “Hot” song genre charts and/or consumption-based “Top” album genre rankings.
Here’s a recap of the changes advertising billboardAlbum genre rankings from January 18, 2025:
bluegrass album – Move from a 10-bit chart that only considers album sales to a 15-bit chart based on consumption, ranking albums in equivalent album units.
blues album – Move from a 10-bit chart that only considers album sales to a 15-bit chart based on consumption, ranking albums in equivalent album units.
Actor album – Move from a 10-bit chart that only considers album sales to a 15-bit chart based on consumption, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
Classical crossover album – Move from a 10-bit chart that only considers album sales to a 15-bit chart based on consumption, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
Traditional classical album – Move from a 10-bit chart that only considers album sales to a 15-bit chart based on consumption, ranking albums in equivalent album units.
children’s album – Move from a 15-bit chart that only considers album sales to a consumption-based 25-bit chart that ranks albums by equivalent album units.
new age album – Expanded from 10 positions to 15 positions, still a consumption-based chart that ranks albums by equivalent album units.
tropical album – Positions expanded from 20 to 25; still a consumption-based chart that ranks albums in equivalent album units.
world album – Positions expanded from 15 to 25; still a consumption-based chart that ranks albums in equivalent album units.
As with all genre consumption album charts, rankings on the above album genre charts will include both current and catalog titles.
