They'll probably bring up how the mixtape is 10 years old. But if that's the case, then why did Travis have to resort to measures that weren't going to be reflective of the mixtape's organic consumption 10 years later?

Billboard literally called out Bieber directly by name as one of the artists that was using shameless tactics to boost chart position

kinda surprising to me ngl. but

he is a scam artist, thats why

And SOS is gonna do the same thing.

Well, according to Billboard, this is the criteria they're using for the list.

And we must also issue our obligatory reminder that unlike with our Year-End Charts, these Greatest Pop Stars are NOT mathematically determined by stats like chart position, streams or sales numbers. Those play a big part in our final rankings, of course — you can’t be one of the greatest pop stars of the century without great pop hits and great pop albums — but so do things like music videos, live performances and social media presence, and more intangible factors like cultural importance, industry influence and overall omnipresence. (And we’re measuring this over all 25 years of this century so far, so if you were only heard from at the beginning or the end of that period — or only had one or two big songs, albums or eras — that’s gonna significantly hinder your ranking here as well.)

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billboard.com/lists/best-pop-stars-21st-century-honorable-mentions

Queen

Ironically me being wrong about that proves my point even moreso lol

Changes w/ those tactics: 126k
Justice w no tactics: 30k

Beyonce can't even do 200k pures yet with all the gimmicks she pulled yet you think The Weeknd, a dude with less than half the stans is? Wild. He better start selling those $5 vinyls otherwise he's not even hitting 100k pure

10 year mixtape

future got cds and vinyls for the mixtape lmao

Not arguing with someone who can’t read.

You’ll be wrong when the album drops

You'll probably go make another alt due to the embarrassment

Huh?

Imagine if Beyoncé really cared lol

She literally left the album to die

Also, what were those special tracks that you mentioned?

lol she clearly cares, barely any artists put as much effort into their rollouts as she did for Cowboy Carter

It was issued as standard 19-track edition on vinyl (across four variants, each pressed on different color vinyl black, red, white and blue with alternate back cover artwork), a CD with an additional song (“Flamenco”) and a digital download and streaming edition (both in clean and explicit versions, with three bonus songs “Flamenco,” “Spaghetti” and “Ya Ya,” plus two interludes). The CD edition was issued in four variants (each with different back cover art). Two of the variants were sold as stand-alone items, while two of the CDs were only available inside two deluxe boxed sets (each with a different branded T-shirt contained inside a branded box).

8 different variants with exclusive songs is definitely caring

All these songs are on the album they are not bonus songs

What happened is that the early pressings of the vinyl were missing some tracks because they were made with an early version of the tracklist and the album even had a different name

this guy stays all day in this thread making uniformed comments

well you're arguing with Billboard here, who clearly state they're bonus songs

Well, they aren't.

They are songs on the album released on day 1 on all formats, except this early vinyl version.

Stays talking out of his ass

Crine HDD saying exactly what a lot of users on here been saying

But we got a couple bundle glazers who defended it for a long time

Now the source thenselves saying its a joke gimmick that has deteriorated the BB200 To mean absolutely nothing

Ill never forget my boy who it took 6 months to get his utopia vinyl even though it said shipped from the first week

And i love trav but idk why he resorts to this s***

Doesn't matter if she cares or not, her own fans clearly don't care because the album is free-falling. It's set to be her worst-performing album ever.