Apple Starts To Advertise Around The World

Apple has started a worldwide advertising campaign for its new streaming music service, with advertisements showing up in cities around the world like San Francisco, Toronto, Los Angeles,Mexico City and Tokyo. The banners has the same images that have been used to advertise Apple Music on Apple's website, featuring desaturated pictures of artists overlaid with the Apple Music logo in a variety of fonts. It is not clear when Apple started to push Apple Music advertising, but the banners and signage appear to have gone up over the last few days. As Apple begins advertising Apple Music around the world, Billboard has announced that songs streamed from Apple Music will now count towards the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100. Apple was recently added as a streaming provider and Apple Music songs will influence the August charts. The Billboard 200 lists the 200 most popular albums each week, based on direct sales, digital downloads, and on-demand streaming. where as the Billboard Hot 100 tracks individual songs using the same method, ranking popularity on a weekly basis. New charts for both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100 come out each Tuesday.