It is fake because the product is never consumed or even opened.

If you buy the SAME song 500 times digitally you are not listening to all 500 files.

They paid for something and never touched it specifically to create sales numbers.

You can’t tell someone what is or isn’t a real purchase. If someone chooses to do that with their own hard earned money, that is completely their choice.

I can go in Target right now and buy 25 versions of a Taylor Swift vinyl. Should Target not accept my money for 24 of them?

According to Billboard. Why are you so slow

This doesn’t mean they were botted.

@serenade you gotta replace Fader cause he making Abel fans look slow as s*** like omg

The only slow one here is you

Y’all niggas really refuse to believe that a world exists outside of your own bubble it’s insanity

Target can accept your money but Billboard won’t accept them as sales because they are deemed artificial and not real consumption

Again, you’re wrong. That rule only applies to D2C stores

Nope. They have limits on buying physicals.

25 physicals in a single purchase would get counted as 0 sales.

Thanks for playing.

Yeah, physicals via D2C stores dumbass

What do you think D2C means?

This nigga thinks D2C means “digital to consumer”

No, all physicals - even ones bought in target. This has been a rule for yearssss

You’re so stupid it hurts.

How the actual f*** would Billboard have any way to track if I went to one Target and bought the same album 29 different times using cash every time to pay

Please just think about that for one second

Digital to Computer

Yeah we dont take their opinions on hip hop/rap serious here

You’re changing it now lmao.

I said in a single purchase.

“ 25 physicals in a single purchase would get counted as 0 sales.”

You responded and called me a dumbass.

I never said anything about a single purchase. I’m talking about ONE PERSON buying the same thing numerous times.

Billboard only has rules for that via D2C. It’s literally impossible to track in retail stores

Idk if the next Drake solo is outselling GNX. Maybe first week but GNX era is Kendrick’s career peak as far as singles go.

You also didn’t say anything about a separate purchase with cash only each time like huh

So does Kendrick "sell" 15k copies of GNX next week after this

Probably. He was selling CDs and Vinyls. Not the cheap 5 dollar albums like Drake and Taylor

I was literally talking about what people can choose to spend their own money on. I never said anything about one singular transaction

And I said Target can accept the money and it can still be ruled out as a sale with Billboard lmao.

This was never about “what people can choose to spend their money on”. It’s about what Billboard validates as a legitimate sale.

You’re dumb as f***

If I go in Target and buy the same album 19 different times on 19 different transactions, all of them will count on Billboard

Do you think Billboard has cameras set up as retail stores or something?