theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/04/a-pressing-issue-vinyl-albums-riddled-with-mistakes-charli-xcx-olivia-rodrigo

Good write up.

What Olivia did might be the most egregious offense yet.

Do you pre-order albums? How do we hold these scammers accountable?

looks like they're assuming people are just buying these to display and not to listen to

are their CDs different?

I think it's mainly a vinyl problem. Haven't heard anything about CDs being different

yes the cds are different

it’s literally just so they can have physical product out for first week sales
they have to turn at least something in before the manufacturing deadline

i’ve said it before but they need to make it so that you need a certain % of the same content for something to count as the same album

it would stop deluxes that are full new albums worth of music, vinyl/cd versions that are cut down with only half the songs, etc

Cause billboard rules that vinyls and physicals only count the week they ship @op

its CDs to. vinyls take even more time to make so clearances and songs might not be done by the time they due in order to have them for first week sales.