Popularity Rating using Bar Graphs on Itunes?   What does it mean?

When I log onto Itunes, and I look at a particular band, like the band, "Without A Face,"
I see the "popularity rating," beside each individual song.
What does the popularity rating bar graph indicate? Does it represent the number of sales, of each individual song? Or, does it just represent the number of people, who are listening to each individual song?

How did you find out that popularity rating relates to the sale of each individual song?
It can't be related to anything else since iTunes can only track sales, not what people are listening to.
Does one black slash next to the song represent that the song has sold 10, 100, or 1000 times?
I doubt it's any of those. More likely it's relative to whatever else is displayed.
If a song sold 5,000, it could have 5 bars compared with other songs but it could also have no bars if it is compared to other songs that have sold 500,000.
Again, Apple has not published any info on exactly what the rating means or how it is derived..

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