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Online music plays are to be included in The Official Singles Chart for the first time.
The Official Charts Company has announced the weekly chart list will now factor in the number of times a song has been streamed on the internet.
The new system will count every 100 plays as the equivalent of one record sale and will include singles played via online music services Spotify, Napster, Deezer and Xbox Music.
The Official Charts Company's chief executive Martin Talbot said: "The Official Singles Chart is the definitive measure of Britain's music tastes.
"Just as it has evolved through the years to reflect the most popular music in the UK , from 10 inch, to 7-inch, vinyl to cassingles, CD singles to downloads, that is the latest stage of the progression."
The move has been welcomed by indie band 'Bastille' - whose track 'Pompeii' has become the most streamed track in history.
The group's frontman Dan Smith told The Mirror newspaper: "I think streaming going into the chart is definitely a good thing.
"For the charts to be fair they have to reflect how people digest music."
The first Official Singles Chart to incorporate streams will be unveiled from 4pm until 7pm on Sunday, July 6 by BBC Radio 1 and the full Top 100 will be published on OfficialCharts.com at 7pm.

Kate Bush spent three days submerged in water in a flotation tank to create special effects for her live shows.
The 55-year-old singer, who will take to the stage for 22 concerts at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London later this year, has hired a movie tank at Pinewood Studios, where she has been practicing a 'lost at sea' scene in which she is rescued by a helicopter.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "During her concerts there will be lots of footage and special effects.
"Kate wants the show to be out of this world and hired the underwater stage which is fitted with a wave machine and special lighting at Pinewood Studios.
"She spent three days in the tank re-shooting scenes and performing her songs. She wanted to create the effect of her floating in the ocean, lost at sea.
"The footage ends with her singing 'Hello Earth' and being saved by a helicopter.
"Special technicians re-created the helicopter by using ceiling fans."
The recording was given the code name 'Navy Blue' and the pop star performed hit songs including 'And Dream of Sheep' and 'Wake Up'.
Despite being underwater, the crew working on the scene were reportedly "gobsmacked" by how powerful Kate's voice was.
One staff member said: "We were all brought to a complete standstill as she sang, her voice is absolutely incredible, it was completely flawless. It was the most beautiful thing some of us had ever heard.
"She may have aged but her voice hasn't changed."
Kate has reportedly "thrown everything" into the highly-anticipated live shows and millions of pounds are being spent on special effects, costumes and staging.
The gigs, which sold out in just 15 minutes, are kicking off on August 26, with seven new dates at the end of September and in October added just last night due to massive pre-sale demand.
Kate's announcement comes after her 'The Tour of Life' shows in 1979, which had until now been the only concert tour of her career.
The six-week tour took her around Britain and mainland Europe and ended at the Hammersmith Odeon - now called the Hammersmith or Eventim Apollo - the venue she has chosen to return to.

Prince is reportedly in talks to play a surprise set at Glastonbury festival this week.
The 'Raspberry Beret' hitmaker, who was rumoured to be headlining the event at Worthy Farm, was ruled out after Metallica, Kasabian and Arcade Fire were announced but sources claim he still wants to surprise festival-goers at the event in Somerset.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Prince wants to show up somewhere as a surprise. He has spent so much time in the UK lately, he'd love to do an impromptu set."
Organiser Michael Eavis and daughter Emily previously said Prince would not be playing the festival this year but they still hope to book him in the future.
The 56-year-old musician, who was bookies' favourite the headline, has been touring the country for the past couple of months with his all-girl female rock band 3RDEYEGIRL.
Meanwhile, Metallica were reportedly in talks to cover a track by the 'Purple Rain' singer but frontman James Hetfield was against the idea.
The source added: "There was the suggestion of them covering Prince, reminiscent of when Jay Z came on to Wonderwall [by Oasis], but it got a firm, 'No', mostly from singer James Hetfield."
EE has installed a bespoke 4G network and card readers for contactless payments at the event this year and the 'Highspeed Herd' will bring festival-goers superfast WiFi. The cows were painted by legendary bin painter, Hank, who has decorated thousands of colourful bins for the festival since the '80s.

Example gets abuse about his voice on Twitter.
The 'Kickstarts' hitmaker's upcoming fifth album 'Live Life Living' has cemented his transition from rapping to singing, and despite receiving criticism about his vocal prowess on the social network, the musician feels confident about his ability to convey emotion in his voice.
He told Digital Spy: "I think there's some people who don't like my voice and that's fine and the reason they don't like it is probably because of the sound of it.
"I often get tweets going, 'You can't sing, you're f**king awful' but then I get hundreds of tweets a day saying, 'I love Example's voice - it's so unique and gravelly and has so much emotion in it'. I don't think there's been anyone in history where everybody loves their voice."
Example denied having a course of singing lessons and feels like his music actually benefits from his lack of vocal training.
He explained: "I had one singing lesson and it was mainly to learn how to warm up my voice. I said shall I come back for more lessons and she said, 'Well you've got such a unique sound to your voice I don't think I can teach you to sing'.
"I think if you start to learn to sing in the traditional sense you lose all the character in your voice."
The star is relieved marrying model Erin McNaught helped him give up his party lifestyle because he was becoming a "self-destructive" person.
He reflected: "I mean there were some amazing, fun moments, you know? Like just being able to do whatever you wanted when you wanted, but it was very self-destructive and I didn't really like me as a person.
"I didn't really like who I was and a lot of my friends didn't like me, my ex-girlfriend didn't like me and my family didn't really like me back then in like 2010. I'm in a much better place now."

Lana Del Rey is inspired by Courtney Love.
The 'Summertime Sadness' hitmaker has always looked up to the Hole frontwoman and rock 'n' roll legend, so feels proud to count her among her friends these days.
She said: "Courtney Love's a big inspiration. I like her, I talk to her a lot. I just went her show ... when she was playing in London. I like people who are similar to her, like Joni Mitchell types or Stevie Nicks, who are both strong female characters."
The 27-year-old star was strongly influenced by jazz legends Nina Simone and Billie Holliday on her second album 'Ultraviolence', and hopes she has done their musical legacy justice.
Speaking on France Inter radio station's 'Laura Leishman Project' show, she said: "It has a Pacific coast feel to me, I think it's guitar driven, there are references to Nina Simone. That's why I ended the track listing with a cover of 'The Other Woman'. I am inspired by early jazz culture. It's a West coast jazz fusion with a little bit of East coast fever."

The Saturdays "sex up" their dance routines when their partners attend shows.
Mollie King has revealed her loved-up bandmates - including Rochelle Humes, Frankie Sandford, Una Foden and Vanessa White - will be going all out to impress their boyfriends and husbands when they embark on their greatest hits tour in September.
She said: "It's funny when everyone's husbands and boyfriends are in, everyone tries to sex it up. So if Wayne [Bridge, Frankie's soccer star fiance] comes down I'll look over at Frankie and she's giving it extra large and I'm like, 'I saw you.' "
The 'What About Us' hitmakers will also be travelling with a full entourage as Frankie and Rochelle will bring their children on tour with them.
Rochelle, who has 12-month-old daughter Alaia-Mai with husband Marvin Humes, said: "There will be a lot of juggling. I'm not being without Alaia-Mai."
However, Una will leave her two-year-old daughter Aoife Belle - whom she has with rugby player husband Ben Foden - at home as she is due to start pre-school.
The red-haired star told Britain's OK magazine: "Aoife will be starting nursery so I'll pop back to see her."

Adele has finished work on her third album.
The 'Skyfall' singer has been busy in the studio, and fans won't have to wait long for her much-anticipated new record with reports it has been completed and is ready for release.
A source told the Daily Star Sunday newspaper: "The album is written, recorded and finished. Theoretically it could be released tomorrow if she wanted."
It is said Adele and her label are considering bringing out the album with little fanfare and no "publicity campaign", in a similar way to how Beyonce released her self-titled record earlier this year.
The insider added: "The plan is to release internationally on iTunes as a complete surprise without any previous promotion or build-up publicity campaign.
"The shock tactics worked amazingly well for Beyonce and the feeling is Adele's new album is so widely anticipated it doesn't need a long promotional build-up."
The project is still being kept a closely-guarded secret, with no release date set for the album - which will be the follow-up to '21', which sold almost 30 million copies worldwide.

Liam Gallagher terrified Kasabian when he started play fighting with them during a helicopter flight.
The 'Eez-eh' hitmakers bonded with the rocker when they supported his band Oasis during their run of hometown gigs at Manchester's Heaton Park in 2009.
They got on so well that guitarist Serge Pizzorno and singer Tom Meighan were taken to Scotland for lunch in the helicopter with Liam but decided to be mischievousness.
Serge said: "On the way back, Tom and Liam started play-fighting, rocking the thing, screaming. I'm sitting there going 'Maaaate!' This ain't like the back of a car, man, we're f***ing miles in the air. This rain starts coming down and the captain goes, 'Right, we've gotta land because the weather's terrible.' Liam's like, 'We're not landing, man, just drive through it!' - in the end we had to land. We had to emergency land in this airport."
The stars then went back to their hotel and Serge and Tom were still starstruck after spending time with Liam.
Serge gushed to NME magazine: "Liam's such an amazing dude. He's funny and proper looks after us. Those gigs were unbelievable."

The Housemartins will reform if The Smiths get back together.
The 'Caravan of Love' hitmakers - who split in 1988 after five years together - famously had a pact never to reunite, but have now slightly relaxed their stance safe in the knowledge their strict criteria is unlikely to be met.
Former bassist Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, said: " We've changed it to, 'We'll only reform if The Smiths reform first and they won't reform until the royal family abdicates', so I think we're safe on that one."
Norman is now best known for his DJing but admits it has taken until now for his 13-year-old son Woody to be impressed by his work.
He said: "He's just beginning to realise now he's 13 that his dad does have a cool job."
And the 50-year-old star - who also has four-year-old daughter Nelly with wife Zoe Ball - is hopeful his son could one day follow in his musical footsteps.
He added in a radio interview: "He's just got a bass off his godfather, so obviously that's a tradition in the family I'd like to continue. Bass players traditionally are the most well grounded, intelligent members. And they get the best chicks. Always."