# YouTube Streaming Data to Return to Billboard Charts

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/youtube-streaming-data-to-return-to-billboard-charts/
- Published: 2026-11-09T16:31:26+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T17:40:14+00:00
- Original publisher: Billboard
- Original article: https://www.billboard.com/pro/youtube-streaming-data-return-billboard-charts/
- Topics: Entertainment, Software, Technology, Trending, TV, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- YouTube data returns to Billboard charts in 2027.
- Billboard is narrowing the weighting gap between paid and ad-supported streams.
- One album unit will equal 1,000 paid or 1,500 ad-supported streams.

## Summary

YouTube will return its music streaming data to Billboard’s charts in 2027, after withdrawing it earlier this year over how paid and advertising-supported streams were weighted. YouTube’s global head of music, Lyor Cohen, said Billboard’s revised method better reflects how fans listen across both types of service.

From 16 January, each Billboard 200 album consumption unit will count as 1,000 paid streams or 1,500 ad-supported streams, narrowing the previous gap of 1,000 to 2,500. An album unit also equals one album sale or 10 individual track sales. YouTube data first appeared on Billboard’s song charts in 2013 and was added to the Billboard 200 in 2019.

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