{"id":981124,"date":"2025-12-19T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981124"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:07:07","slug":"youtube-on-ending-its-10-year-long-data-sharing-partnership-with-billboard-they-dont-want-to-make-meaningful-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/youtube-on-ending-its-10-year-long-data-sharing-partnership-with-billboard-they-dont-want-to-make-meaningful-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube on ending its 10-year-long data sharing partnership with Billboard: They don&#8217;t want to make meaningful changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has announced that it will stop submitting its music streaming data to Billboard for US chart calculations starting January 16, 2026. Lyor Cohen, YouTube\u2019s Global Head of Music, criticised the current Billboard formula as \u201coutdated\u201d and claimed it \u201cundervalues\u201d the \u201cmassive fan engagement on YouTube.\u201d The decision ends a decade-long partnership between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>The primary conflict stems from how Billboard ranks different types of streams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has announced that it will stop submitting its music streaming data to Billboard for US chart calculations starting January 16, 2026. Lyor Cohen, YouTube\u2019s Global Head of Music, criticised the current Billboard formula as \u201coutdated\u201d and claimed it \u201cundervalues\u201d the \u201cmassive fan engagement on YouTube.\u201d The decision ends a decade-long partnership between the two companies. The primary conflict stems from how Billboard ranks different types of streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}