Streaming info
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2018 info
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Info about streaming numbers taken into account for the Billboard charts as of 2018: Billboard article.
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Greater emphasis to be given to paid subscription streams with ad-supported activity remaining an important factor in the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 and many other charts
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Beginning in 2018, plays occurring on paid subscription-based services (such as Amazon Music and Apple Music) or on the paid subscription tiers of hybrid paid/ad-supported platforms (such as SoundCloud and Spotify) will be given more weight in chart calculations than those plays on pure ad-supported services (such as YouTube) or on the non-paid tiers of hybrid paid/ad-supported services.
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In 2018, Billboard will have multiple weighted tiers of streaming plays for the Hot 100, which take into account paid subscription streams, ad-supported streams, and programmed streams. Streaming, along with all-genre radio airplay and digital songs sales data, make up the three metrics of the Hot 100’s methodology.
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The Billboard 200 will now include two tiers of on-demand audio streams: paid subscription audio streams and ad-supported audio streams. The chart will continue to not incorporate video streams. The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums.
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Below is a list of current streaming services contributing to the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, as well as corresponding genre songs and albums charts.
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2020 changes
From January 2020 Billboard also includes video streams into the Billboard 200:
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Video and audio data from YouTube, along with visual plays from several music streaming services, will soon be factored into the Billboard 200 albums chart, it was announced on Friday. In addition to YouTube, officially licensed video content plays from Apple, Spotify, Tidal and Vevo will be included in the album chart's calculations.
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Some personal experience
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I did a little Spotify experiment a couple of weeks ago with Adam's Another Lonely Night remixes. I took those because those had very low streams per week so the effect of my own streams would be visible there.
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I have a premium account so that may be effecting it, but ALL my streams counted: 24/7 playlist (with one or two times the song added), 24/7 one song and 24/7 the album. They all got added to the numbers I saw in Spotify.
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Of course I don't know if they all count for charts as I don't know how they take that into account, but the number we see in Spotify counts all streams also if you stream 24/7!
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Here is my Spotify playlist to stream Adam's songs:
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