Billboard Bundle Banning Start Date Announced

[RAMROD 102,068]

Billboard has set start dates for new rule changes to its charts doing away with the controversial practice of "bundling" albums with concert tickets and merchandise to drive market share and music sales. The changes also affect instant digital sales attached to purchases for physical albums delivered at a later date.

Effective immediately, Billboard will no longer approve any new album/ticket bundle offers; moving forward albums will only be counted if promoted as an à la carte add-on sale to a ticket purchase. 

For existing, approved offers with an album released on or before Oct. 8, 2020: Redemptions (sales) generated by offer will be accepted for duration of the tour or offer. Sales will be chart eligible, but only for tickets sold through Oct. 8, 2020.

For existing, approved offers with an album released on or after Oct. 9, 2020: Redemptions (sales) generated by offer will be accepted for duration of the tour or offer. However, sales will not be chart eligible and will only count for a title’s release-to-date sales; and only for tickets sold through Oct. 8, 2020.

As for merchandise/album bundles, beginning Oct. 9, no further sales of albums can be reported if bundled with merchandise, even if the album and merchandise are available à la carte. Albums scheduled for release on or before Oct. 8 can report sales generated from the bundles, but only through Oct. 8.

Albums slated for release on or after Oct. 9 cannot report any sales generated from a merchandise bundle -- merchandise being defined as anything that is not the album itself, including (but not limited to) clothing, paper goods, accessories, virtual items, concert presale codes, contest entries with No Purchase Necessary entrance options and fan club access.

As with ticket bundles, beginning Oct. 9, an album must be promoted as an add-on to a merchandise purchase, not baked into the price of the non-album item, and it must not yield any benefits or discounts to the customer, in order to be counted.

Physical format albums sold as part of a finished goods boxed set/package that may contain artist/album-branded merchandise items can continue to count as a sale as normal, but only after advance approval.

When it comes to signed merchandise/album bundles that go on sale between Aug. 7 and Oct. 8, the offers must be live and for sale on the artist’s approved direct-to-consumer store or webstore no later than 11:59:59 p.m. EST on the album’s first day of release to be counted for the charts or for release-to-date sales. Any additional signed merchandise/album bundles offered beyond the album’s first day of release between those dates will not be counted for the charts or release-to-date sales.

New rules governing the bundling of physical albums or singles with immediate digital downloads will also go into effect on Aug. 7. From that date forward, any physical album or single sold with a digital download will not be counted as a digital sale and will only be counted as a physical sale upon shipment to the customer. In cases where multiple physical formats of the same album or single are bundled with digital downloads, only the first physical format that is fulfilled to the customer will be counted.

 

 

Source:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9419979/billboards-new-bundle-chart-rules-start-date

[MessyTop 13,950]

We been knew!  this is from 2 weeks ago 

 

[Chaymie 840]

3 minutes ago, MessyTop said:

We been knew!  this is from 2 weeks ago 

 

I think that article didn't have the start date

[Doot 2]

[RAMROD 102,068]

10 minutes ago, MessyTop said:

We been knew!  this is from 2 weeks ago 

 

 

No we don't. That article/thread does not have the start date,

[MessyTop 13,950]

5 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

 

No we don't. That article/thread does not have the start date,

We had 3-5 threads about it. It’s fine.

 

 

[RAMROD 102,068]

1 minute ago, MessyTop said:

We had 3-5 threads about it. It’s fine.

 

And none of it had the start date either,  as this article that I posted from is paid member only, not many know about it, I am just trying to be helpful here.

[MessyTop 13,950]

1 minute ago, RAMROD said:

 

And none of it had the start date either,  as this article that I posted from is paid member only, not many know about it, I am just trying to be helpful here.

It’s fine. I’m just saying. We been knew. Old news. 

[Teletubby 130,493]

6 hours ago, Doot said:

she knew so this is why she released folklore with thousands of bundles

[Versace 7,727]

At the end of the day business is business and an artist's label will utilize every business opportunity. You guys can joke on artists who sell through bundles but everyone is doing it, including your favs. There is a clear demand for these bundles. Labels won't waste millions of dollars just cause you think it's taboo or gimmicky. 

[Luffy 25,386]

Can they retract 6ix9ines “#1”

[doja scat 14,763]

5 minutes ago, Versace said:

At the end of the day business is business and an artist's label will utilize every business opportunity. You guys can joke on artists who sell through bundles but everyone is doing it, including your favs. There is a clear demand for these bundles. Labels won't waste millions of dollars just cause you think it's taboo or gimmicky. 

Tea. Stans love to shade artists that use bundles but literally Stan artists that use bundles to sell albums themselves  

[Where is LG7 3,720]

so Chromatica EP for september 25 confirmed? 

[A Very Gaga Holida 19,582]

Can't they just stop it, instead of doing it slowly like it's some kind of presidency sh*t?