With the rise of streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, & Tidal, the music industry had find a new way to calculate music sales. The RIAA & Billboard have different systems on how this is all calculated. Artists like Bad Bunny, Drake, Jay-Z, Harry Styles, Beyoncé, Kanye West, Steve Lacy, Lil Uzi Vert, Justin Bieber and more have benefited and have been hurt by this system. If you want a diamond, platinum, or gold plaque, this what you need to understand. Is it 150 units or streams? Or maybe 1,500? In this video, Kid Vintage show you a simple breakdown of it all.
