Backstreet Boys Streaming Music Information

Billboard 200 Albums
- Billboard combines pure sales, TEA (track equivalent album) and SEA (streaming equivalent album) to calculate the ranking.
Hot 100 Songs
Artist 100
Social 50
Streaming Songs

SEA: Paid streaming accounts carry more weight when it comes to Billboard charts.
- Paid: 1 album unit –> 1,250 streams
- Free (ad-supported): 1 album unit –> 3,750 streams
- Video Streams: 1 album unit –> 3,750 streams
TEA:
- 1 album unit –> 10 digital tracks

Gold — 500,000 units
Platinum — 1,000,000 units
Multi-Platinum — 2,000,000 units+
Diamond — 10,000,000 units +

Do not mute the volume. Hook up headphones (and don’t put them on) or turn the volume down very low, but not on mute.
Don’t use a VPN. The streams will not count.
Use as many devices as your plan will allow (phone, tablet, computer, TV, etc.)
30 Seconds Rule: You must listen to a track at least 30 seconds.
Repeat/Loops:
- No concrete evidence, but create a playlist with the album added to the playlist several times. Add a few other artist in between songs randomly in the playlist
For those that buy the song from iTunes also, make sure you are playing the Apple Music version or the streaming will not count.

Buy the song and album. Sales = charts.
Do not gift the song to people because it will not count. Give them a gift card and have them buy the song themselves.
When buying a whole album, buy the tracks individually. Do not hit “complete my album.”

If you bought the song from the Amazon Digital Store, it counts as a purchase, not stream.

Play the song/video from the boys’ official channel or VEVO channel.
Use multiple devices to stream.
Log out of your account.
Do not mute.
You can play the same music video 5 or 6 times in an hour.
Make sure to watch 2-3 music videos of other songs after playing the video.
You must wait 6-10 mins before playing the music video again.
Do not refresh the page or replay the video in a loop.
Do not add music videos to a playlist as it will only count once with both free and premium accounts.
Make sure the video quality is set to 480P or above.
Like the video and comment. Do not copy comments.
Switch the song every so often, along with the tabs you are playing it in so that YouTube will not think you’re a robot.
Playing music through YouTube Music is the same as you would through Apple Music, Spotify, etc. It counts as audio streams.