I mean Billboard publishes the formulas and methodology. It's not even slightly secret or anything. Sources include Billboard's own website and dozens of articl

I mean Billboard publishes the formulas and methodology. It's not even slightly secret or anything. Sources include Billboard's own website and dozens of articles. https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=how+does+billboard+calculate+charts https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=how+does+billboard+ca... The tell that this comment is nonsense is the assertion that only major labels count. That's never been true at all and anyone saying that is telegraphing that they aren't really connected to this issue. Registering with SoundScan and getting UPC/ISRC is trivial and many services (like HN user founded Distrokid) automate portions of it. None of this is new. Those of us that were on tour playing music in the 90's got used to filling out Soundscan forms on paper at the merch table and finding a way to fax them in. Indie artists have been reporting sales to the charts for decades. Also there's no such thing as an "unauthorized but legal remix" that's just someone else's song. The parent comment is "not even wrong" levels of wrong.