Billboard

• YouTube protests Billboard’s new formula by pulling data from music charts
• New Billboard Chart Will Recognize Digital Creators For Fueling Smash Songs

  This could be through memes, dance challenges, and more, Billboard notes, and seems particularly focused on TikTok, the short-form video platform where native creators have spawned unlikely hits and revolutionized today’s music landscape.

  
• For The First Time, YouTube Consumption Will Inform The ‘Billboard 200’ Albums Chart

  Beginning next year, the Billboard 200 chart -- which tracks the nation’s most popular albums of the week based on a number of factors, including traditional album sales, and other digital-equivalent metrics -- will incorporate video and audio data from YouTube in making its calculations.

  
• Billboard Music Awards Pacts With Nascent Stories-Editing App ‘Unfold’

  The Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) have launched a partnership with Unfold -- an app that provides photo and video templates to help users create sleek, cohesive Stories for Instagram and other platforms.

  
• “Baby Shark” Enters Billboard Hot 100 Largely Thanks To Viral YouTube Views
• Billboard Will Decrease Weight Of YouTube Views In Hot 100 Charts
• New Billboard Music Awards Category To Honor Most-Covered Artist On Musical.ly
• Billboard Plans To Release Nearly 1,500 Music News Videos Over The Next Year
• Troye Sivan Nabs First Top 40 Single As ‘Youth’ Rockets Up Billboard Hot 100
• YouTube Star Lil Dicky’s First Album Tops Billboard’s Rap Chart
• YouTube Hosts Hoodie Allen, Iggy Azalea Performance With Billboard At Sundance
• Eight Years Later, Viral Video Puts Kanye’s ‘Gone’ In Billboard Top 20