I've spent three years learning how a song gets onto a chart, and I'll tell you the honest version: it's streams, and streams are whatever the recommendation engine decides to play next. Now a company can generate ten thousand songs a day that sound like the thing you just played, cost nothing, and pay nobody, and the engine can't tell the difference and doesn't care. One service says more than half its new uploads are already that. If those count on the charts, the chart stops measuring what people chose and starts measuring what the engine fed them. So: no. Not on the chart, not in the feed, unless it's labelled and I can switch it off. Tell me why I'm wrong.
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