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YouTube Squashes Feud With Billboard Charts
YouTube will return to Billboard’s charts in 2027, reversing its 2025 decision to stop submitting its streams. The move follows a change to Billboard’s weighting system, which YouTube says better reflects how people listen across paid and free services.
Billboard is reducing the difference between subscription and ad-supported streams: from 16 January, one paid stream will count as much as 1.5 ad-supported streams, down from 2.5. YouTube had objected that the previous formula undervalued listening on its free tier; the company has not explained why it accepts the revised ratio rather than equal weighting.
In short
- YouTube will rejoin Billboard’s charts in 2027.
- Billboard is narrowing the gap between paid and free streams.
- One paid stream will equal 1.5 ad-supported streams from 16 January.
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