billboard chart question
Posted:
Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:37 amby ebake02
I see After All These Years has an "airpower" tag on the charts this week. What does "airpower" mean anyway?
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/c ... &g=Singles
Posted:
Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:53 amby Hollywood
That means more radio station are adding the song to their playlist and the stations already playing it are playing the song more often. It is a very good thing.
I do not know the exact criteria, but I know it is a certain percentage jump in times the song is played to get the 'Airpower' designation.
Posted:
Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:07 amby separate_wayz
The "AIRPOWER" designation is actually one where a song appears for the first time in the top 20 on two charts: (1) airplay and (2) audience.
In effect, it means that more people are hearing a song because of more "detections" -- which equals the number of spins times the estimated audience of the stations playing the song.
For example, if a small college radio station with an audience of 100 people plays an indie song 100 times, that's not comparable to WBNS-FM in Columbus (Hot AC radio station) with an audience of 100,000 playing "After All These Years" 2 times. The detections criterion makes an adjustment for that. The AIRPOWER designation shows that a song it getting more spins with more of an audience .....
Very good stuff for Journey ..... oh, and the song rose last week from #14 to #13 .....
Posted:
Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:27 amby jrnyman28
I shoulda come here first...I was asking the same thing at the official site. But I finally got the same asnwer about airplay and audience charts. Makes sense since they just crested the 2 million mark for audience and the number of adds and spins continue to rise.
