>when they are mostly on subscription services like spotify.
>I never had a subscription service before but I bought spotify
>because of all of the hype. the only feature that has really
>impressed me with spotify is the feature that has been
>available on subscription services before spotify.
>Specifically, Watch the Throne and The Carter IV were
>available on Spotify within a couple of weeks of their
>release. It makes me regretful that I bought Watch the Throne
>when it came out.

That doesn't impress me at all. If spotify wants to compete with torrents, they have to have albums on the day of release.




>How can album sales still be a metric for measuring an albums
>popularity when then songs are freely streamable on
>subscription services within a couple of weeks?
>
>Fuck a billboard, with the help of the interwebs couldn't we
>come with a number for all the times that a song was played on
>youtube, subscription service, scrobbled on last.fm, ec/?

That wouldn't work.
Those numbers might give a more complete picture of popularity now, but once they actually start to matter in a way billboard does now, they will be fudged in no time.




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