9 minutes ago, KeshaSwift said:

 

 

Gaga sis...
I mean my own faves had their tasteless promo too every now and then, but she's on her own level of tackiness 

Chromatica tour was never cancelled - my tickets stay secured for this summer, stop making up bullshit  

3 hours ago, Illuminati said:

The 1 million ANTI sales by Samsung and that Tidal Queen deal that allowed anyone to get any album for free

it didn't even get counted for billboard though 

25 minutes ago, Achilles. said:

I believe it was Chromatica?

18 minutes ago, Nefertiti0 said:

Chromatica. 

12 minutes ago, KeshaSwift said:

Gaga sis...
I mean my own faves had their tasteless promo too every now and then, but she's on her own level of tackiness 

?

 

Chromatica Ball is an all-stadiums tour scheduled for this summer and rehearsals are already underway  

 

11 minutes ago, bestfiction said:

Gaga with Chromatica (but looks like the tour is happenning after all)

The tickets were never canceled in the first place, they just rolled them on  you know it's going ahead yet you chose to be disingenuous with your drag? Ok...

3 hours ago, Cloröx said:

Dua stealing Prisoner despite being featured artist  

She also did it with like ten other songs on her debut

Justin and Ariana getting #1 on Billboard by selling 'Stuck with U' signed CDs,  then they sent their fans CDs with auto-penned signatures after 7-10 months.

 

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2 minutes ago, halcyonday said:

She also did it with like ten other songs on her debut

Her debut’s tacked in songs were not on another album at the time. Prisoner is the only time she actually took away from another album’s chart performance.

2 hours ago, Alak96 said:

Camila bundling Romance with a bunch of flowers (and still missing the #1), I-

 

And let's not talk about Familia

 

Also adding My Oh My last minute AND putting Senorita on the album, when it originally was not supposed to be

10,000 BTS fans buying over a million copies of Butter

1 hour ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

 

Sis the album was sold for 99 cents.

 

No joke. Enlight me.. What's false about it 

It wasn´t Gaga who sold the album forr $0.99 like most of the people say. It was Amazon´s choice.

58 minutes ago, Sept said:

Yummy's shameless promo tactics

wait not people forgetting this

 

Nicki adding FEFE to Queen for some extra first week streams then removing it from the album after 

 

I will never get over Rihanna's Anti scam.

 

The way it was certified platinum day 1 because she sold 1m copies to Samsung which where then given away for free...

 

How was it eligble for plat in the US? Samsung is a South Korean country and the free copies were available worldwide, not just the US... I have no idea how she got away with that one

27 minutes ago, nathanspears said:

I will never get over Rihanna's Anti scam.

 

The way it was certified platinum day 1 because she sold 1m copies to Samsung which where then given away for free...

 

How was it eligble for plat in the US? Samsung is a South Korean country and the free copies were available worldwide, not just the US... I have no idea how she got away with that one

plsss

Jay-Z's 4:44 got Platinum Before even being Released!!

 

also, Drake's shamelessly overpromoted last alberm

When Spears and all the other teeny bopper acts of the late 90s would add millions to their album sales through "Club Sales."

Anything BTS.... 

In the 90s when many singles that were huge hits and are classics were not allowed to chart on the H100 because they didn't have a CD single.

Mariah discounting her cassette singles to get more #1's. There were also rumors that barcodes were switched, so if someone bought a single from another artist, it would scan in as One Sweet Day, not as the actual song putchased.

Garth Brooks reissuing his music in cheap box sets to boost RIAA certifications. Also, his vinyl records at Walmart are like $12.

 

Mariah (or anyone else) discounting singles or albums, back when both actually sold, isn't that bad. It's not even unethical. Music is an industry like any other and those sales were real sales, not fanbase-fueled BTS-type fraudulence. But this however...

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The latest trick that record labels have been accused of is replacing the bar codes on older catalogue albums with those of new albums whose sales they want to boost. Soundscan denies that this happens intentionally.

Charlie Davin, the singles buyer at Tower Records in Greenwich Village, said: "I've heard stories of bar codes being switched around, but when I've priced my product and that happens we send it back to the record label. I wouldn't put a Fugees single on the racks when it was coming up as a Mariah Carey single."

 

Absolutely appalling, deplorable, regrettable, disgusting, grimy as hell, etc.

Mariah was notorious for chart tactics.

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mariah-carey-is-a-true-star-but-her-career-is-based_b_586c236ee4b068764965c508 

3 hours ago, Nefertiti0 said:

Justin and Ariana getting #1 on Billboard by selling 'Stuck with U' signed CDs,  then they sent their fans CDs with auto-penned signatures after 7-10 months.

 

Lolz she ate that and you’re mad!!  

 

 

Most of them do something that's desperate to increase sales at some point. With some of these tactics at least the artist gets tonnes of money (Rihanna getting paid $25 million for that Samsung deal), but what I can never understand is stans mass buying/using lots of their own money to help ultra rich individuals to get achievements that will never personally be theirs 

3 hours ago, Kiss It Better said:

it didn't even get counted for billboard though 

You know it's bad when even Billboard has to step in

10 hours ago, Hurem said:

How much did Rated R sell when it was discounted to 99 cents in its first week?

 

Quickly.

 

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/41434138.html?

I honestly don’t know. I haven’t really been a Rih fan since 2014.

 

Does that diminish the fact that Gaga still sold hers for a dollar though?

 

Quickly

Lemonade Fake streams.

 

she started to flop after that scandal 

11 hours ago, Istan4R said:

Gaga selling her album for 99 cents on its first week and still not being able to meet Taylor’s and OIDIA first week sales 

 

 

 

11 hours ago, Illuminati said:

The 1 million ANTI sales by Samsung and that Tidal Queen deal that allowed anyone to get any album for free

Well Riri 

11 hours ago, Cloröx said:

 

• Dua stealing Prisoner despite being featured artist  

You talk like Prisoner was a hit or something lmao