Overview
What's Spotify?
Spotify is a digital music streaming service that provides users with access to millions of songs, podcasts, and videos from creators around the world. It offers both free and premium/paid subscriptions for users.
Why Spotify is Important for Billboard Charts
Spotify has free and paid listening options. While paid on-demand streams still count more toward Billboard charts, ad-supported streams now carry increased weight compared to previous years
- Old ratio: 1 paid = 3 ad-supported streams
- New ratio: 1 paid = 2.5 ad-supported streams
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Streaming Guide
How do you stream on Spotify?
- Open Spotify.
- Search for the song you want to stream.
- Add the song to your library or playlist.
- Hit play and enjoy!
Tips for creating your own playlists
- When creating playlists, you can either do two Megan Thee Stallion songs then two fillers or one Megan Thee Stallion song then two fillers.
- You can add the fillers from your favorite artists besides MTS.
- This is usually helpful if you want to play an album or song for an extended period of time and want most of your streams to count
Why are fillers important?
Fillers are important, because we want to prevent streaming services' algorithms from filtering out streams of albums/songs and for organic listening behavior.
Spotify Charts
Spotify has a designated area where you're able to view charts. There are two types of charts you can view, they are Daily and Weekly charts. You can view the most played songs and artists either daily or weekly. You can also check by a specific country and city charts are available for use as well
Playlisting
Additional Tips for Playlisting
- Make sure to play the entire song
- Interact with your playlists
- Avoid bot-like behavior
- Do NOT mute. You can have the song on low.
- If you downloaded songs for offline streaming, make sure you have access to the internet by the end of the tracking week, which is Thursday nights at 11:59pm EST, so your streams get counted!
Spotify has a variety of playlists, and the most common lists Megan Thee Stallion appears on are RapCaviar, Today's Top Hits, and Feelin' Myself. These are some of the biggest playlists she's usually on, and a lot of people use these playlists to discover what's popular. It's great for visibility!
- It's also fine to stream from these playlists, because it helps gain visibility and allows the song to gain streams. These are popular playlists, so many people use them to discover the hottest tracks.