Billboard Hot 100 will stop counting digital download singles from artist webstores (D2C), starting from June 30

Billboard Hot 100 will stop counting digital download singles from artist webstores (D2C), starting from June 30.

Billboard new rules only affects DIGITAL and wont affect the CD pre-ordered from BTS store since it is physical. 

CDs, vinlys and cassettes will count for billboard hot 100!

Lets work harder on buying SEVEN on iTunes, Amazon, Qobuz

Getting your song onto a Billboard chart is the epitome of success for a musician. Whether you make pop, rap, r&b, dance music, or whatever else: Billboard is the golden goose of the music industry.

However, that leads to the question of how these charts work.

Is there a magic way to land your song into the top 100 of Billboard’s most valuable tabulation? Do artists or their labels have secrets to getting top-ten hits that the regular musician doesn’t know?

At #1 is Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night,” which has now spent 12 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart in parallel to a 14-week run at #1 by its parent album, the behemoth One Thing At A Time, on the Billboard 200. It’s the biggest album of 2023 by far, and “Last Night” is, I guess, the de facto Song Of The Summer. (We’ll still be doing a readers’ poll to properly dole out that title later this summer.) Rising to a new #2 peak is Luke Combs’ extremely faithful cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” Chapman’s original peaked at #6 in 1989.

The Billboard charts are put together by calculating song sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming in the United States.

With these numbers, the experts at Billboard can create this list of popular songs, leading from 100 to number one. Of course, as times change, there have been different ways to make the charts, but at the end of the day: you need to have sales.

Another thing to remember about the Billboard charts, like the Hot 100, is that they are tabulated weekly.

One week there may be a jump in album sales; the next, it could be much lower and result in a lower ranking. Country music has finally, resoundingly entered the streaming era. For years, the genre lagged behind on the pop charts as fans remained loyal to radio and continued to purchase CDs in droves, even as hip-hop listeners and pop-star stans sent their favorites soaring up the charts. But as streaming has continued to firm up its grip on the music industry and new stars have mastered online platforms like TikTok, country is flourishing on the Hot 100 — or at least the reigning superstars of the genre are. As a result, as Billboard reports, for the first time in 42 years, the top two songs on the chart are both country hits.