Starting in January, Bulletin board will release updates to some of its weekly album charts.
Starting with Bulletin board chart dated January 18, 2025 (reflecting Luminate's tracking week ending January 9), six long-running album genre charts will switch from sales-only rankings to consumption-based metrics and expand their depths. In addition, three album genre charts that were already based on consumption will also increase their depths.
The album charts by consumption rank the most popular titles of the week based on their respective album units collected, as compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track album equivalents (TEA) and streaming album equivalents (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 official paid/subscription audio and video streams generated from songs from an album.
The first one Bulletin board The album chart in the transition from a traditional ranking based on album sales to a count based on consumption was the overall Billboard 200 for all genres in December 2014. Most of Bulletin boardThe album's album genre charts moved to a consumption-based ranking in January 2017. (With the January 2025 updates, virtually all Bulletin boardHis genre album charts will have been moved to rank by consumption.)
Finally, the Heatseekers Albums chart, which ranks the most popular albums of the week based on new and growing songs, will be retired, starting with the list dated January 18, 2025. Bulletin board will continue to chart new and developing acts on the weekly Emerging Artists chart, which launched in 2017. The Emerging Artists chart ranks the most popular emerging artists of the week, using the same formula as the comprehensive Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity in multiples Bulletin board charts, including the Hot 100 and Billboard 200. (The Artist 100 lists the most popular acts, overall, each week.) However, the Emerging Artists chart excludes acts that have scored a top 25 entry on either the Hot 100 or the Billboard 200, as well as artists who have achieved two or more top 10 hits in the Billboard “Hot” song genre and/or album genre rankings “Top” based on consumption.
Here's a recap of the changes to Bulletin boardAlbum genre charts begin with charts dated January 18, 2025:
Bluegrass album – Moved from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
Blues Album – Moved from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
Cast album – Moved from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
Classic Crossover Albums – Moved from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
Traditional Classical Albums – Moved from a 10-position album sales-only chart to a 15-position consumption-based chart, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
Children's albums – Moved from a 15-position album sales-only chart to a 25-position consumption-based chart, sorting albums by equivalent album units.
New Age album – Expands from 10 to 15 positions, remains a consumption-based chart, sorting albums by equivalent album units.
Tropical albums – Expands from 20 to 25 seats. remains a consumption-based chart, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
World Albums – Expands from 15 to 25 seats. remains a consumption-based chart, ranking albums by equivalent album units.
As with all genre consumption album charts, the rankings for the above album genre charts will include both current titles and catalog titles.
