— TXT and the UK Charts: A (very lengthy) thread on how you can support them as a UK MOA

There are two charts here in the UK, those are:
— Big Top 40
— Official UK Charts
This thread will focus on the Official UK charts

Within the UK charts there are two variations of the chart:
— Singles Chart
— Albums Chart
Both of these track all streams and sales across all major platforms here in the UK.

note: with the singles chart, our focus however will be towards the title track. This would be for all releases in the near future too, as well as blue hour.

Below will list all platforms you can buy and stream the song as well as its rules and ways to buy.

— Buying —

Physicals:
With Physicals, the UK charts will only count physicals bought from UK retailers. Places like Amazon UK (has to be amazon UK) and HMV, as well as local stores like tesco, sainsbury's, asda, WHSmith, Argos and morrisons sell physical albums.

If in the future we are given a TXT UK store, then orders from there (both physical and digital) would count.

note:
— Only amazon UK and HMV handle pre orders, with Amazon it has to be from the official seller and sold and dispatched from Amazon UK for it to chart.

— Weverse orders do not count towards the charts+
+as well as many non UK retailers.

— Do not buy more than 4 albums in one transaction or it could count as bulk buying and the purchases will not count towards the charts.

Digitals:
There are 3 places to buy Blue Hour this way:
— Amazon music (different from amazon music unlimited)
— itunes
— Tidal
Google play music used to exist however that is now gone and been absorbed by Youtube music.

note:
— On both Amazon and iTunes, you buy the title track first and then complete the album. "Completing the album" is when you buy a track separately, and then the option to buy/complete the album should appear.

— Buying the music video on iTunes does count towards the single

— You do not need an apple device for itunes, if you do not have an apple device, you can get itunes on your PC.

— Manually search the song/album name on iTunes so the search term will begin to trend, if you cannot find it via the search, then check fanbases for links or check+

+the charts within itunes for the title track/album

— On Tidal, you can buy the single more than once and it will+
count towards the charts, however it is best to not do it too much since there isn't a limit stated and to risk your transactions being void.

— You do not need to download your purchase from Tidal for it to count on the charts.

— You can sign in to Tidal with a Facebook, Twitter, Apple id or an existing Tidal streaming account.

There is no conversion rate of how many singles purchased to albums here like there is in the US, which is why we have the rule about buying the title track and completing the album. Buying all the tracks separately is an album sale lost so please do not do this.

— Streaming —

With streaming there are a few streaming regulations in place that we as UK moas have to follow for it to count towards the charts. This will touch upon the main ones that we need to keep an eye out for.

Two terms seen here are:
— Ad-Supported
— Premium

Ad-Supported means free streams, your account is not a premium account.
From the free streams, 600 streams equate to 1 single sale.
Platforms that use free streams include:
— Spotify
— Youtube
— Youtube music
— Deezer

Premium means paid streams, that someone pays for the service on the platform.
From Paid Platforms, 100 streams equate to 1 single sale. This is why it is good to utilise free trials and premium accounts since they have more weighting when it comes to streams.

Platforms that use paid streams include:
— Spotify
— Youtube
— Youtube music
— Deezer
— Tidal
— Amazon Music Unlimited
— Apple music (different to itunes)
— Soundcloud (Only from audios posted on the official TXT SoundCloud account)

Note:
— Only 10 streams per song, per acc, per account count towards the official charts. (e.g: across blue hour, on one platform, one account can contribute 50 streams towards the charts, 5 songs x 10 streams per song)

For that reason, we encourage you get your streams in across all platforms, then put the focus to streaming on platforms like apple music, spotify, and youtube. Since those count towards global charts, as well as music shows*

*[Music shows apply Youtube Only].

— if you want to contribute more streams on one platform you have already used them for, then you would need to make a new account.

— For Apple music, you will need to remove the tracks from your itunes library for them to count otherwise you would be streaming the song+

+purchased on itunes, not the track on apple music.

— You do not need an apple device for apple music. If you do not have an apple device you can use apple music on your PC/Android device so utilise that platform

— Streams outside the 10 streams per day per acc rule can still contribute the BB global charts/music shows(youtube) so although these restrictions are in place for the UK charts, still stream as you would normally to help contribute to these charts,

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More info to be posted and this will be put in a neater thread in the near future. For now, happy comeback day, let's do all we can to make TXT touch the sky

Also if there are details I missed PLEASE feel free to add them on to here or need me to explain anything, I am more than happy to help in any way I can!