Yeah basically same thing tho. First to have an independent source verify vs the label/agents ask chart twitter pages to start saying "so and so is X million eligible!" meanwhile they won't go ahead with the plaque because the real sales aren't there yet

Difference between Drake vs the rest of the game (looking at Taylor specifically 👀)

Out of all the records Drake broke this year God's Plan going double diamond is his best imo. Seeing the goat drop the undisputed biggest rap song this century is heartwarming. All that back and forth between the critics in 2017 trying to say he's not going to last or he's on his way out and he goes and drops the big one and the whole world embraced it was a special moment in time. No one else deserves this success and that's why they'll never see a fraction of it

Countless hours of hard work, blood, sweat, tears and this is what the boy gets

Nah, plenty of stuff is eligible for new plaques all the time but not every artist gets their catalog re-certified often. Kendrick’s hasn’t been re-certified in almost a decade, but HUMBLE.’s been Double Diamond-eligible for almost two years

Well a song can't be double diamond if it isn't certified soooo

The units were still sold regardless

We all acknowledged Views was a Diamond album before it was officially certified Diamond yesterday, same concept

Not really
Those could be fake units, ya never know

maybe itt but nobody outside of that who isnt a deake fan did

also billboard uses different units then riaa and chartdata numbers are based on billboard units

damn

Top ten debut for Paak and Cordae

It’s funny seeing the physical sales for Take Care vs ICEMAN and Habibti

The vinyl and cd still sell pretty good

do any of current yt popstars who are pushed heavy by the labels and dominate the charts, own their masters ?

Only 2 rap songs on the top 40. Drake and Lil Baby

Can they stop being lazy and actually use the Habibti album cover though?

Janice is locked for biggest rap song of the year. This is going to be Nokia all over again. They wanted to stop him but they couldn't stop him, streets spoke up again and they said nah this nigga saying at the top. F*** the industry

@Brave @Childhood

lol mainstream music is f***ed

lmfao

Is this a record or what?

How convenient to let hip-hop die from the billboard cause of this rule change.