Each week Billboard will include six 15-position charts representing digital sales, with rock, country, R&B/hip-hop and Latin running each week and two other genres rotating. All charts appear on billboard.biz, where Billboard's charts are refreshed each Thursday.
Billboard has had a general chart for digital songs and digital albums, but dividing it into different genres is something really needed and too long in coming.
While chart position is all well and good, the real information that everyone wants to see are the sales figures. You can get these if you pay the hefty fee and subscribe to SoundScan (but who can afford a 5 figure subscription rate these days), but for physical product at least, you can still go to the Hits Daily Double and see the new sales chart every Tuesday. Be warned, it might not be pretty on some weeks, as sales figures can be really dismal sometimes.
Maybe Hits will also give us digital sales soon as well. We can only hope.
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