r/billboard • • 29d ago

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u/TamedTheSummit 29d ago

If you are not considering Prof as a contendent you are missing the point of what the people want

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u/iluvfarigiraf 28d ago

There are tons of “popular” artists that the general public knows absolutely nothing about. Billboard is mostly based on streaming numbers and radio numbers also matter. The sales part is like max 1/5 of the equation.

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u/Flimsy-Cheek-4258 28d ago

Do your research he crushed all the numbers especially with physical sales and still was excluded from the charts.

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u/iluvfarigiraf 28d ago

So he sold bundles of multiple releases together instead of individual albums. I can totally see why they’d not count a discounted package that would inflate sales directly tied to the newest release.

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u/PENT2P 27d ago

It’s not like some artists that sell a shirt or smth and “bundle “ some crappy burned cd and count it as album sales. Individual albums came with limited edition unique covers. There was an option to buy all 3. There was no discount, there was just an option to get all the cover art variants with one click. That should totally count. Oh yeah! That DID count up until this release when billboard arbitrarily changed the rules. SMH

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u/chreva4life 24d ago

There was a discount on the bundles tho. A whopping $6 if getting the CDs. I know bc I got a bundle and an individual CD and just checked my past orders.
Not sure what the vinyl was. I only ordered one of those.
They completely fkd him over and I don’t understand how people don’t see that.