It may be too early to measure the success of Apple Music, but there's at least one sign that the music industry is taking the tech giant's just-launched streaming service seriously: Data from Apple Music is now part of the mix of statistics that determines placement on Billboard's two most-watched charts, the Billboard 200 and the Hot 100.
R&B singer Jill Scott entered the former at No. 1 on Monday with her latest album, "Woman," which sold slightly more than 57,000 copies and was streamed about 1.6 million times in its first week of availability, according to Nielsen Music.