How does Apple calculate Album plays on A… (2024)

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How does Apple calculate Album plays on A…? ›

Apple Music Replay calculates your top songs, albums, artists, playlists, genres, and stations using: Your listening history in Apple Music. The number of plays to a song, artist, album, playlist, genre, and station.

Plays are recorded when a user initiates song playback in Apple Music for more than 30 seconds. We provide a wholistic view of all Plays, including Plays from Apple Music radio stations.

For albums, all official audio and video streams (SEA) from within the US are counted in addition to TEA and pure sales. 1500 streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale. In addition, if an album shipped over 1 million copies to stores it can be certified Platinum without all 1 million of these copies being sold.

Top songs are ranked by play count only. Top albums are ranked by play counts as well, where each track played on an album counts as a play. So if you listen to an album with 10 tracks three full times though, it will have 30 plays.

The answer is yes; streams on repeat are indeed counted. Interestingly, Apple Music currently lacks measures to prevent abuse. We've tested continuous, non-stop looping of the same track within a short timeframe, and it still results in multiple stream counts.

How Apple Music Replay works. Apple Music Replay calculates your top songs, albums, artists, playlists, genres, and stations using: Your listening history in Apple Music. The number of plays to a song, artist, album, playlist, genre, and station.

Spotify counts a stream if someone listens to a song for 30 seconds or more. It also counts repeat streams. However, streaming your own song on repeat is definitely not a good idea, as Spotify flags suspicious activity.

Releases that meet the requirements below will be distributed to Apple as an Album: The release has seven (7) or more tracks AND/OR. The release is over 30 minutes in duration.

Or an EP is considered 4-6 songs with a total running time of 30 minutes or less. Album. An album is considered to be 6 or more songs running over 30 minutes in length and is considered to be one product.

Under the revised methodology, the Official Charts Company takes the 12 most streamed tracks from one album, with the top-two songs being down-weighted in line with the average of the rest. The total of these streams is divided by 1000 and added to the pure sales of the album.

How accurate is the Apple Music Replay? ›

It's unclear exactly how accurate Apple Music Replay is. Apple Music lets users see the play counts of all their songs in the Apple Music desktop app and people have noticed that the play counts listed in the desktop app don't always match with the play counts listed in Apple Music Replay.

Meet Apple Music Stats, a beautiful way to view your all-time Apple Music listening stats. In "Top 100 Albums" & "Top 100 Songs" you can see how many times you've played an album/song and actually play the songs right inside Stats.

When I decide to listen to another song and I haven't played the song already for son already for 30 seconds, the song gets counted as a skip. The only way around this is if I play a song for 30 seconds or add songs to my next queue.

Offline streams (when you download a song from Apple Music) are counted on the device, and if the device is connected to the internet, play count is automatically updated in Apple Music, so that the rights owner gets paid.

In "Top 100 Albums" & "Top 100 Songs" you can see how many times you've played an album/song and actually play the songs right inside Stats. DISCLAIMER: This is for Apple Music subscribers and iTunes users only.

Music video streams (30 seconds or more) count towards the all-time streams for the associated song and any release the song is on.