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^How about buying it for the sake of having it?
A chart should show how popular a track is, and sometimes sales have very little to do with it, for example:
- In 2001 Mariah's Loverboy reached #2 on charts because once the label noticed she was flopping, they lowered the price to 49 cents and her fans started to buy several copies of it... still, the weak airplay prevented the song from reaching #1
- From 2008 to 2009 Mylene Farmer got 5 consecutive #1 singles, becoming the artist with most #1 on the french charts and breaking her own record single after single... This after +20 years career. Was she going through a peak? Not really, actually, none of those singles got much airplay or were successful outside of her fanbase... To the point of debuting in #1 and fastly going out of the charts... But her fans are older, they still buy physical copies when nobody else's fanbase did, so, even if her sales weren't anything special, the singles got good position.
If the goal is to show who is selling the most copies, airplay and streaming aren't relevant. But if the goal is to show how popular a track is, Billboard done the best move possible.
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