Lol. Remind me what movies have to do with album charts?

Also what I am saying is that technology and economics are influential in the development of popular music. Art and culture are also influential in that development. It's not about X and Y happening, it's about identifying how these factors interact with other.

Streaming is a technological development that is reflects a new economic model which has introduced a new way to consume music. It's a great example of how technology and economics interact. Measuring sales within this new distribution method has become problematic though.

'Official Charts will take the 12 most streamed tracks from the standard version of the album, the top two songs will be down-weighted in line with the average of the rest. The total of these streams will be divided by 1000 and added to the physical and digital sales of the album (the 1,000 ratio is used to reflect the broad difference in value between a track stream and the price paid for an album)'

Interesting they pick 12 tracks. I wonder where they got that figure from? And then a bit of maths to reflect economic value. It seems all my comments are completely on point.
I can imagine some record companies simply thinking how can be maximise an album's sales potential within this new environment.

plus blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

you aren't just saying that, you are saying piles of stuff irrelevant to the topic, and the long and short of your initial point that was being discussed in which other parts came into it was you thought that may spell the end of the album as we know it, but then later on said it may or may not spell the end of the album as we know it.

I don't think it will. you think it will, or maybe will not. end of story. we disagree, or maybe agree. who cares