I think variants definitely need to be more heavily regulated by Billboard.

But even moreso, I think the whole first pressing “pressing half the album onto physicals to ensure first week sales” thing needs to be banned completely. Either have the entire album ready on physical or take the loss. That s*** is ridiculous

True.

That new Tate McRae song gained hard on Apple Music… coming for a notable increase on Spotify tomorrow?

Meanwhile Young Thug doing unprecedented level of horrible on Apple Music. He’s gonna struggle to do 50k first week

damn he had a #1 album and #2 song yesterday on apple now the album is #4 and yfn lucci is higher

Lucci’s album was way better

tbh but this a huge drop off for Thug. I thought Gunna career would be closer to over not thugs 😭

It's pretty pathetic how much people care about sales, especially in an era where so much of it has deemed fake

I think it's cool that people have a deep understanding on how sales are calculated in this era cause it's a bit confusing at time

But it's sad man an album comes out and ppl don't even listen to the music anymore

have to be top 50 to re-enter

Top 50 or 25?

top 25 after 52 weeks
top 50 after 20 weeks

Yeah, how many weeks have they spent thus far?

one dance 41 headlines 18

Oh, ok.

Pop/Country music has been steadily dominating Apple Music in recent years so this isn't that surprising.

I get that. I’m just saying with how well they’re doing on Spotify and how weak the Hot 100 is, it’s weird that they haven’t been able to enter the Top 50 yet.

For context, when Running Up That Hill had its resurgence in 2022 it made it all the way back to #3. When Die For You had its resurgence in late 2022/early 2023, it peaked at #6 before the Ariana remix came out.

Just a little weird that Headlines hasn’t even been able to enter the Top 50 with how historically weak the Hot 100 is right now

This is inaccurate. One Dance spent 36 weeks on the Hot 100, Headlines spent 25.

Both of them would just have to re-enter within the Top 50 to chart.

Right now, to chart within the Top 50, a song only needs 60 points, which is not high whatsoever

What’s everyone’s predictions for Taylor? We thinking 2M+ again?

Way fewer tracks, so probably not.

I wouldn't be surprised if she were to do 1-1.5M, though.

I mean she did 1.9M in pure sales alone for TTPD so I think 2M+ is a reasonable line

She’s gonna do at least 400-500K in streaming units guaranteed