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DJ Khaled planning to sue Billboard over #2 debut


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King Radio, hosted by your No. 2 DJ Khaled, coming soon on Beats 1, with a very special guest Nicki Meenach :ally:

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FATCAT

He should just take the L and try harder on his next album. This is only going to make people dislike him.

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LaLa

How embarassing of him :ladyhaha:

And I hope this ends up with Billboard dis-allowing all bundles of anything, that would be an awesome/hilarious outcome 

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lifeasgeorge

Imagine if him and Nicki both released an album the same week :ladyhaha:

the amount of pettiness that would occur :gaycat:

 

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FATCAT

Listening to Tyler now so that Assad can only afford 2 cars next year!

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Tyler1992

Tyler’s new album is awesome! DJ Khalid’s I’m assuming is horrible based on his track record..

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Poissonche

Don't these artists understand that the second you try to manipulate the charts, you're invalidating their whole principle? The goal of charts is to measure at a time being the level of success of a musical piece. If you get a number one by giving out your album to everyone who buys some energy drink at some random places, chances are they won't even listen to it. You may get the number one, but it's all fake.

Most artists never get their big break and go on for their whole life working minimum wage jobs, performing at open mics at night. Be grateful of your f*cking Billboard #2.

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RAMROD

He needs to let it go :fail:

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Anderson123

Lmfao so he’s not letting this go huh. It’s so pathetic but funny at the same time.

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Zaskar
4 hours ago, Software People said:

King Radio, hosted by your No. 2 DJ Khaled, coming soon on Beats 1, with a very special guest Nicki Meenach :ally:

Actually, more like Ashad Radio  :triggered:

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DJ Khaled is poised to hit the Billboard Chart with a monster lawsuit alleging the organization unfairly disqualified more than 100,000 sales of “Father of Asahd,” robbing him of the No. 1 spot.

Khaled was furious when his album came in at No.  2 to Tyler, the Creator’s “IGOR,” after Billboard allegedly discounted downloads sold by the DJ and producer as part of a “bundle deal” with an energy drink. Bundle deals, which offer album downloads alongside merchandise, are a standard but controversial industry practice to boost sales.

We’re told Billboard had agreed it would count downloads from Khaled’s energy drink package, which sources in the artist’s camp say amounted to more than 100,000. Billboard later backtracked, disqualifying Khaled’s entire sales from the promotion, arguing there were “anomalies” in his figures. Page Six has exclusively learned that lawyers for Khaled have fired off a letter to Silvio Pietroluongo, SVP of charts and data development at Billboard.

A DJ Khaled source said, “When Khaled’s team tried to appeal, Billboard refused to budge.” The source said the situation was all the more unjust because Tyler, the Creator’s bundle deal figures were included in his total sales. On May 30, Billboard announced Tyler debuted at No. 1 with 165,000 albums sold, with Khaled at No. 2 at 137,000. Not fair, argues Khaled’s team.

Page Six exclusively reported a few days ago that Khaled had a tense meeting with Sylvia Rhone, chairman and CEO of his label Epic, over the matter. The source explained, “Khaled was frustrated his label didn’t fight harder for his bundle sales to be included.”

A Billboard source disputed that 100,000 DJ Khaled sales were disqualified but admitted an undisclosed number of his sales were ruled out because “there were strange anomalies in the data,” adding that the decision was based on chart rules following talks with Khaled’s management, Sony Records and Nielsen. Billboard announced it has reviewed its rules allowing artists to bundle albums with merch and will outline a new policy for 2020.

Reps for DJ Khaled didn’t comment, and Billboard also declined to comment.

He should sue them for letting Million Reasons rot at #4 while he’s at it.  :air:

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