Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think it’s worth clarifying that it’s #1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales. That’s a specific category.
According to tasteofcountry.com/breaking-rust-explained-ai-cou… in order to reach number one would only take ~3,000 purchases.
That’s a shockingly low number, so if anyone can confirm that or has better numbers, I’d love to know.
But last time I brought a digital song, they cost $1. So for a couple thousand dollars any song could be number one in this category.
If I were an AI company swimming in money, that’s a drop in the bucket for some free publicity.
tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
The Billboard chart in question is behind a paywall.
Someone on a Reddit discussion on the same song pointed out that it could be bypassed with:
open.bolha.tools and plugging in the Billboard URL www.billboard.com/…/country-digital-song-sales/
That being said, while I can see the chart, I don’t see any numbers, so I’m assuming that they must be coming from somewhere else, though I don’t have any reason to doubt that; it sounds like tasteofcountry.com is reputable.
That article does point out that there are a substantial number of Spotify users listening to the song, though if I remember, there was some past discussion about how various people had tried trying to game Spotify’s recommendation system to try to get more people listening to their songs, so maybe someone could just be leveraging that hard?
forbes.com/…/spotify-hit-with-class-action-lawsui…
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The little info (i) box on Billboards website actually cites their data, “The week’s most popular downloaded songs, ranked by sales data as compiled by Luminate.” Which I assume refers to luminatedata.com
Sadly their data (the numbers specifically) aren’t publicly available.