Billboard Adds Apple Music Data to Its Top Charts

Billboard has announced that data from Apple Music is now being included in its top charts. Apple Music first launched on June 30th, 2015 alongside Apple iOS 8.4.

Apple Music has been added as a streaming provider to the Billboard 200, as well as the Billboard Hot 100, other hybrid songs charts and streaming-only charts. The panel of streaming providers that contribute to the Billboard 200 now includes Amazon Prime, Apple Music, Beats Music, Google Play, Medianet, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Tidal, Spotify and Groove Music Pass (formerly Xbox Music).


The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Jill Scott's new album 'Woman' debuts on at the top of the Billboard 200 chart this week.

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