A change to YouTube’s inclusion on the U.S. Billboard charts
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Quiet
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 76% of the past week’s 3531 stories, and number 3 of 45 in Internet.Why it’s moving
- Official wordYouTube Official Blog posted on it 39 hr ago.
- ScoopYouTube Official Blog had it 5 hr before anyone else.
After being removed in January 2026, YouTube data is returning to U.S. Billboard charts starting in 2027.
In YouTube Official Blog’s words.1
The story so far
Official- Reports
- 4
- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 0
First with it: YouTube Official Blog, 5 hr 10 min before anyone else.
From YouTube Official Blog directly.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 3 |
| Today | 1 |
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Over
- 1.2 days
- To three newsrooms
- 5.4 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 3:00am AEDT | YouTube Official Blog | 1 |
| 8:09am AEDT | Engadget | 2 |
| 8:24am AEDT | Pitchfork | 3 |
| 7:59am AEDT | Tubefilter | 4 |
Bigger than every other Internet story this week. Reached three newsrooms in 5.4 hr; a typical Internet story that gets there takes 5 hr.
Every report, in order
4 reports from 4 newsrooms, first to latest. Each links to the original.



