Billboard for week 7 (Jan 20 issue)
Album charts
Top 200 - U218 holds steady at 32
Top 25 Digital/Downloaded - U218 drops 7 to 22
Top 25 Rock Albums - U218 up 1 spot to 9
Single charts
Hot 100 - Saints down 17 to 91
Pop 100 - Saints down 10 to 82
Modern Rock Top 40 - WITS down 5 to 40
Hot Adult Top 40 - WITS up 1 to 27
Video charts
Top 40 Music DVD - U218 down 8 to 31
A relatively new section of Billboard Charts is called "Hits of the Web", which I've never checked out before, but I did today and here is the description and then chart positions:
HITS OF THE WEB
Updated every Friday at 5:00 p.m. EDT
Hits of the Web is a combination of rankings from various Web sites that reflect music-related activity on the Internet. Hits of the web is a combination of rankings from various Web sites that reflect music-related activity on the Internet.
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AMG (All media guide) AMG's information databases for music, video, DVDs, and video games are licensed by major retailers and Internet sites and are available to the public through its Web sites (
www.allmusic.com; www.allmovie.com; www.allgame.com) and through its published works. The Top Artist Searches and Top Album Searches represent the top searches for the week on allmusic.com.
Top 25 Artist Searches
U2 down 1 to 7
Top 25 Album Searches
U218 up 20 to 21
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LAUNCH Top Music Videos - LAUNCH, Your Yahoo! Music Experience is the premier music destination providing music fans with the largest collection of music videos, streaming audio, exclusive artist features and music news covering all genres of music. The LAUNCH Top 25 Videos represents the most requested music videos by LAUNCH users.
Top 25 Positions
WITS debuts on the chart at #20
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Gracenote Digital Top 20 - The Gracenote Digital Top 10(tm) represents the most popular albums played on the Internet using the Gracenote CDDB® Music Recognition Service(tm), aggregated weekly from over 24 million listeners worldwide.
U218 down 5 spots to 14
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THO 100 - The chart is compiled from personal charts all over the web. Every chart position on every personal chart is used, no matter how large the chart. For each song, points are awarded based on where the song is positioned (more points for #1, fewer points for #10). When all chart data for each week is compiled, the total points for each song is divided by a coefficient which is a function of the total possible chart points for that week. This formula creates a score usually ranging from 0 to 150 for each song. This score is standardized, allowing comparisons with scores from other chart weeks.
Top Hits Online weekly top 100
Saints down 8 to 34 (11th week on the chart; peaked at 12)
WITS up 7 to 60 (3rd week on the chart; currently at peak)
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It's hard to imagine what music charts will look like in another year or two...or in 5-6 years. Who knows? U2 is featured in an online article and in the print magazine for the Jan 13 Billboard magzine where Paul M. states "U2 is looking at making concerts available for download right after the show, among other things, and that U2 would be moving in what he calls 'direct band to fan' contact and transactions in the future, starting with the next album in 2007 and tour in 2008".
International charts to come later.