Lust For Life - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[ilovetati 15,295]

 

 

Following a heated three-way race to #1, Interscope siren Lana Del Rey comes out on top of the Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) Chart with more than 108k for Lust for Life, which was propelled by strong online consumer purchasing. 

Odd Future/Columbia’s Tyler, The Creator—another beneficiary of powerful online consumer purchasing—debuts at #2 with an impressive 104k for Flower Boy, which puts him right on Lana’s heels.

However, at press time, challenges regarding the final numbers are coming from both sides.

Atlantic’s Meek Mill, on the other hand, ruffled some feathers when Wins & Losses, which bows at #3 with nearly 87k, was put up in front of Tidal’s paywall. Counting these streams, as Billboard apparently plans to do, would represent a reckless and absurd acceptance of blatant chart manipulation. Remember: These free streams generate no revenue and thus equate to free goods, making them ineligible for chart inclusion. Also, the presence of the album in front of the paywall opens the way for unlimited use of bots to drive up streaming totals, unencumbered by accounts or logins. Knowing that—and since these streams were not provided to our chart partner, BuzzAngle Music—we are not counting them.

 

http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=307710

 

Did they edit the article to take out the rumor about Tidal not reporting the streams to Billboard? Looks like she definitely lost the #1 spot then...

[Terrence Loves Me 71,699]

[TROPICUM 6,406]

Oh wow Meek Flop needed to corrupt his streams with Tidal to steal that #1 spot... Bitch, not even Spotify or Apple Music, fucking TIDAL!

 

[expandableclitoris 9,087]

The Sun: "Lana Del Rey has frauded album sales"

 

[latothemoon 11,827]

Oh wow Meek Flop needed to corrupt his streams with Tidal to steal that #1 spot... Bitch, not even Spotify or Apple Music, fucking TIDAL!

 

 

Tidal is the only service unprofessional enough to count the fake numbers

[graham4anything 2,859]

 what I don't like is the delay. It should have "gone to print" this afternoon, and nothing. Hopefully that might mean they won't count it, and are having an internal debate from what BB said the other day. But I would expect the worst.

 

and BB is hypocritical and has gone both ways in the past disputes- once instantly changing the rules and all the times in the past this has occurred (with method of charts being manipulated it has always benefited the male artist over the female on the album charts. Britney lost a #1 due to something like this.

November 17, 2007, when the Eagles "Long road out" swiped the #1 from Britney's expected #1 album "Blackout"

 

 

but then again, Donald Trump's Gepetto  stole an election in plain sight so these days anything goes.

[TROPICUM 6,406]

Tidal is the only service unprofessional enough to count the fake numbers

tea

[Yosemite 23,566]

So when do we know if it debuted at #1? (we know already that it will if they don't fraud it- but when's the official statement?)

[Cloudbusting 5,383]

If she doesn't get that #1 we shouldn't be that mad... we know the truth. 

[latothemoon 11,827]

When Flop Mill tanks too hard without the aid of Nicki Minaj and Drake so he has to fraud his way up to the top 

[graham4anything 2,859]

@@sweetlikecinnam0n  Should have been this afternoon

 

as it hasn't been announced, they might be doing an all nighter

 

and they do have the ability to delay the chart official online update until Wed. morning instead of Tuesday morning (6am) (as they do that on Monday Holidays).

 

It's fucked up.

[LAman 3,220]

This might not be the proper place to advertise but I've got a ticket to Lana's show tomorrow and am not gonna be able to make it so am looking to sell it to some lucky soul that can actually go.

I'll go if the ticket is free 

[sshhaaannee 80]

Ha

[Wynwood 19,966]

Who the hell uses Tidal?

[DeadAgainst 1,514]

This album has singlehandedly given me insomnia; the songs are so earwormy that I can't get them out of my head at night

[GroupieLover 1,162]

First Donald Trump became president and now this? If Meek gets that #1, we need to demand justice so BB knows not to count that shit for future releases. It simply isn't ethical or technically correct at all.

[American Bottom 16,237]

Its almost 2 am and Im sobbing in my pillow cause i fell for another loser, and i miss him. Pathetic

[riina 1,015]

top 5 honestly so hard to decide, every track is heaven (skippable love, lfl, bpbp, change sometimes if not feeling the mood)

 

1. heroin

2. groupie love

3. cherry

4. 13 beaches

5. summer bummer

 

  don't murder me

[ilovetati 15,295]

Still nothing from Billboard. Very odd.

 

I really do think this little petty feud with HDD is going to end badly for Lana either way...but they're setting a major precedent for albums with this announcement

[SuperMegaStan 9,667]

Who the hell uses Tidal?

bots (hired by the carters)