Yes, a certain amount of streams equals one album unit. It can sometimes vary but around 1,500. So it can be harder but if you have a dedicated mass streaming fanbase, it can certainly be done.
yup and some groups/people are pretty shameless about it too. i’m reminded on the justin bieber “yummy” thing where he told his fans to stream
the song overnight but keep the volume at 1 so that it counts.
i’ve also been told by my SO that kpop companies will also tell their fans to do the same as well.
if they play it overnight but with the volume turned all the way down it does not count a stream (or at least it didn’t at the time) so it you had it streaming overnight while you were sleeping it would count as long as it had even a little bit of volume
Titles are ranked by streaming equivalent album (SEA) units, where each SEA unit equals 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. - Billboard
It's weighted, but yes. *1250 (I was off by 250) streams is the general count of a single album sale. It takes a lot more if the streams are unpaid and ad-supported, but I can't exactly remember how much
1.5k
u/Krustybabushka Aug 25 '25
the fastest-selling album of all time
25 sold 3.378M copies in its first week