Houston tribute buying prompts Hot 100 rule change

Paul Williams

Previously catalogue or recurrent tracks were not allowed to appear in the Hot 100, irrespective of their sales or airplay performance, so freeing up space for contemporary releases. But, with a number of Houston's s tracks selling very strongly on download in the wake of her death, Billboard has decided to re-write the chart rules so if a catalogue track has sold enough copies to appear in the Top 50 of the chart it will now be allowed to do ...

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