“The music business doesn’t really seem designed to reward our culture with the sales & accolades we deserve,” she wrote. She even tweeted out the stats from Universal that showed just how much the album was streamed as proof of her argument (see the tweet and chart below).
There are some organizations that do include streaming equivalents in their calculations of an album or track’s performance. For instance, Billboard has added streaming numbers into its Top 200 albums chart. And internationally, Spain, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand have redone some of their charting policies to account for streaming. But it’s still a piecemeal approach that hasn’t been globally standardized.
