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Originally Posted by Kacku
Thanks for sharing this, this is some really interesting stuff! But I'm left wondering why the Oricon and Billboard streaming charts look so different. Why does Oricon count fewer services is they make that much of a difference (almost 800k difference between the Oricon and Billboard number for the same #1 song)? But seems like a step in the right direction anyway.
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Oricon is only counting paid accounts and I suppose they only count the most popular services.
E.g. the Amazon music service is widely used by Japanese - but only the "free" model that's incoporated in an Amazon Prime account. Which is most likely the reason why Oricon isn't counting it.
I'd prefer they would count everything from every service, but maybe they gonna expand it in the future.
Streaming is still growing in Japan.
And yes, I use Spotify, but only the free version so no idea how my statistics look like.
