Billboard threatened to decrease Pink Friday 2 sales

[weed 70,901]

 

[Pablo 7,313]

poor nicki 

[Nickypie101 1,482]

She’s gonna play victim 100x, what she expect with alll these damn versions 

[MaybeKermit 3,990]

9 minutes ago, Nickolas724 said:

She’s gonna play victim 100x, what she expect with alll these damn versions 

As if Taylor wasnt worse with those 24-27 (or how many was it?) versions of Midnights ??

[Nickypie101 1,482]

Just now, MaybeKermit said:

As if Taylor wasnt worse with those 24-27 (or how many was it?) versions of Midnights ??

At least they were somewhat spread out, she’s doing them everyday and some only in her website, it’s gonna get hard to regulate

[BLACKOUTbritney 22,263]

Why is she always getting called out by billboard on her release weeks 

[GirlHeyGirl 102]

I feel bad for Nicki... telling your fans to stream and buy your music is not fraudulent at all. But let's give people who have questionable amounts of radio play a pass though.

[Economy 47,021]

8 minutes ago, GirlHeyGirl said:

I feel bad for Nicki... telling your fans to stream and buy your music is not fraudulent at all. But let's give people who have questionable amounts of radio play a pass though.

If i read that correctly the contest involves buying all 4 copies

 

Stuff like that is manipulative to charts and i cant blame billboard here

 

The only thing id criticize billboard here is not being more consistent. Other shady stunts to chart higher in the past by others went ignored and should have also been called out

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[Anderson123 35,594]

Desperate times as always. 

[SharGaga 2,906]

The album is gonna freefall after this week. Let it go Nicki. Now she's saying she's at 300K and Billboard's gonna make 100K disappear

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[Corous 294]

It is literally impossible that she was going to sell 300k, all the reports estimate sales of 200k at most, she is lying.

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[Catnikko 13,699]

but if the sales are sales is it not fraudulent to manipulate the charts because there are fans that actually decide to waste their money on multiple copies?  they're still sales

[Economy 47,021]

8 minutes ago, Catnikko said:

but if the sales are sales is it not fraudulent to manipulate the charts because there are fans that actually decide to waste their money on multiple copies?  they're still sales

I guess if u could use the argument that buying something multiple times (even if the cover is different, some signed etc) essentially makes it a duplicate (kind of like how streams do not count after a 3rd consecutive listen) and get filtered out

 

U cannot delete sales data in terms of gross revenue she made because as you said money was made but u definitely can choose not to count duplicates. Charts do filter out certain things, its not a new concept

 

The only complicated thing here though is how do u quantify how many physical sales were duplicates? U cant really, theyd have to try to estimate and quite likely be way off

[Chromatography 9,882]

1 hour ago, Economy said:

If i read that correctly the contest involves buying all 4 copies

 

Stuff like that is manipulative to charts and i cant blame billboard here

 

The only thing id criticize billboard here is not being more consistent. Other shady stunts to chart higher in the past by others went ignored and should have also been called out

the stupid midnights clock is the same bull sh!t. sorry i’m on nicki’s side here. taylor gets away with it and has for every release since folklore 

[Future Lovers 6,439]

6 hours ago, MaybeKermit said:

As if Taylor wasnt worse with those 24-27 (or how many was it?) versions of Midnights ??

The problem isn’t the variants. Billboard is not arguing that. 

The problem is her offering 100 select fans the chance to come see her in the studio if they prove they bought 8 versions of the album (4 physical, 4 digital). Billboard considers this bribery. 

Variants were never the problem, it’s the baiting fans into mass buying by promising exclusive perks that are not available to all fans. 

Taylor for example did offer pre-sale access for album purchases, but there was no exclusion. If you bought you got access period end of. 

With Nicki, you could buy those 8 versions and still not be one of the 100 selected.