thegreatdivine

4y

That won't be happening because artists used that to game the charts. This is the way it works for movies and video games so why should music be different? Your pre-orders never count as actual sale units until the units have been shipped out. That's how labels used to cook numbers for their artists in the past. They'd print 2 million copies of an album and declare it as 2 million albums sold for their artist, meanwhile, those albums are still on the shelves 5 years later.

If artists want their pre-orders to count the week their albums drop, all they have to do is ensure they ship out all their pre-orders the week their albums drop. That's what Harry Styles is doing for his album so it's not out of the realm of possibility.

Zack From The Six

4y

Shouldn't you be in the most delusional thread in KTTs history? Why are you in here.

thegreatdivine

4y

It isn't if you plan it well. How did Adele manage to make it happen? How did Taylor Swift pull it off? Harry Styles is also about to do the same thing.

Put your album up for pre-order months before the album drops and ready the shipments to go out the week the album drops. There are 7 days in a tracking week so you don't have to ship everything out in one day. You can spread it out over 7 days. It's really not that hard if you insist on getting those sales to count for you.

shaleirose

4y

The issue is vinyl production plants have been backed up ever since 2020, so it’s virtually impossible right now to have physicals ready to go first week. Billboard should update the rule to reflect this obstacle until things go back to normal.

thegreatdivine

4y

Then drop your album without vinyls, do the numbers you'll do and keep it moving (like most artists have been doing since the rule change). How hard is that? Lol.

iGOAT

4y

What thread would that be?

shaleirose

4y

Adele, Taylor, and Harry are three of the biggest artists in the world. Holding every single artist to their standard on vinyl production is ridiculous. They have pull and reach that 95% of artists don’t have.

Zack From The Six

4y

Oh, you know. The thread about the so-called 100/100 instant classic all time great album.

thegreatdivine

4y

Well, then if you're not as big as them, why are you so concerned with first week numbers when you probably won't move that many units from vinyl sales anyways? Just live with whatever units you move that first week and ship the vinyl units when you can. The sales will count all the same against it's totals.

g6ntiana

4y

It's a full flop compared to his old singles tbh