Opening registration was a mistake.

Coordinated attacks on the chart is exactly how it should be described.

Billboard at its best should be like a nature documentarian, observing, documenting, but not interferring. But now the subjects have become aware they're being watched and we've got some weird Observer Effect s*** where the fact that Billboard is measuring popularity at all is now affecting the results and everything is tainted

An English single did that, even wilder when you take into consideration how big twice are in Jpn

Savage love #1
These labels man

at least savage love is a legitimate hit that has spent weeks in the top 10, obviously wouldve never hit #1 without this remix but i prefer a legit hit to go #1 over these flash in the pan songs

Yeah fair enough on that one but cmon lol

Wap still at #1

I honestly believe Rihanna might not get that 15th #1. I feel like even if she drops and her song pops off, other stanbases are gonna do everything in their power to block it from going #1.
I wish there was a way to keep stans from cheating the system, but where ever there are loopholes, they'll find a way through them. I do believe the first step is simply changing it from 4 sales per credit card to 1. I'd even take 2 honestly.

why would stanbases wanna block it from #1 lol

I'm saying other stans like BTS or Ariana or someone else.

Oh I thought you meant like purposefully block or sumthin because they dislike Rih lol.

I mean if they were to release around the same time I guess but BTS are releasing their new album next month and after that I assume they'll take a small break, outside of promo I mean (although they'll likely release another one sometime mid next year before the first of their members have to enlist in the military), so just a random assumption but I doubt Rihanna will be releasing something in any period BTS are holding extended amounts of chart dominance.

in Western artists case such as Ari maybe, idk, although Ari and from what I've seen Western artists in general have never had super strong sales past debut week unlike BTS, so as long as they don't release in the same week that shouldn't be a problem, she could get blocked but I doubt it'll be because of sales.

god damn

This is a hate crime

damn she has 14 #1s she's catching up to mariah

Damn!

Also...

(This is the week after savage love will go to #1 FYI)

And yall wonder why CLB isn’t out lol

Rihanna has a multiple decade reign like Mariah too. Every year from 2006-2017 she was in Billboard's top 5 female artists of the year. I'm gonna have to find the list again

Gonna be a dogfight

m.hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

final numbers

21, 173k

bryson 60k not bad at all

bundles are officially restricted

Still good if they ship during tracking week huh?

yeah but that would require labels to stockpile merch for weeks just to ship on time and elongate rollouts, plus they have to provide merch without bundles. i think the new rules are too inconvenient for labels to try to play by, shawn mendes merch site stopped doing bundles altogether