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Having a meltdown over 30k. God they're embarrassing  :ahh: 

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30k isn't small lmao

rihanna got anti's 2nd week at #1 with less than 20k and that's not even the lowest selling #1.

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8 hours ago, shelven said:

Screaming at how melodramatic they're being over such a small difference :deadbanana2: And for those who are saying "Well 30K is enough to debut in the Top 10 nowadays, it's a big difference", it's really not a big difference at all in the context of a 1M+ debut. If Billboard were to add the 30K to its original 1.26M figure, then reputation's debut figure would go up by 2.4%. HDD's really this up in arms about a ~2% margin of error?. That's the equivalent of HDD complaining that they reported an album as selling 50K but Billboard only reported it as 49K :skull: 

Not really 30k is 30k

It'd be like BB saying 5H's last album opened with 2k instead of 32k pure sales. A massive massive difference.

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2 hours ago, TKO said:

Billboard is shady. All the time they change their rules in order to benefit certain artists. Also thanks to HDD we get a lot of sales and receipts after their first week sales, so i support them.

HDD doesn't even have accurate receipts. :skull:

Nielsen Soundscan is the industry standard and who provide BB with numbers.

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22 minutes ago, Ash12345 said:

Not really 30k is 30k

It'd be like BB saying 5H's last album opened with 2k instead of 32k pure sales. A massive massive difference.

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Big Machine, the Russians of 2017 :clap3: 

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the difference is over 50k

 

it doesn't make sense honestly :celestial5:

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7 hours ago, Ash12345 said:

Not really 30k is 30k

It'd be like BB saying 5H's last album opened with 2k instead of 32k pure sales. A massive massive difference.

It's not like that at all though :skull: When a number is so massive, it doesn't make sense to look at a chunk of it as an absolute value. You have to look at it as a proportion to the entire number. If BB had reported 5H opened with 2K when they really opened with 32K, it'd be a massive difference because that would have meant that Billboard was off by 94% which is obviously a HUGE margin of error. Being off by 94% is nowhere close to being off by 2%, even though both sales are off by the same absolute number.

 

Billboard and HDD use different methods and sources when determining their sales figures, so there's obviously going to be a small margin of error between them. The 2% error is one that we accept basically every single week since Billboard's sales figures are almost always off from HDD's by 1-2K sales on a 50K selling album. The only reason people are making such a big deal out of this one in particular is because the debut was so big that the 2% just looks bigger. But it's really the exact same margin of error.

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7 hours ago, Ash12345 said:

Not really 30k is 30k

It'd be like BB saying 5H's last album opened with 2k instead of 32k pure sales. A massive massive difference.

:jonny: 

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16 hours ago, peterstyles13 said:

I'm so confused as to what are the official numbers :rip:

 

BB/Nielsen have always released official, reliable numbers. There's no reason to be confused.

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Scott and his label are really dumb as **** for jumping the gun and using unofficial figures to brag instead of waiting for Billboard.

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HDD lost again? Color me surprised... lol. 

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#SwiftiesDemandRecount #SwiftiesStandWithHDD #NoBillNoBoard

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I think the reason is Nielsen uses some weight factors for physical sales. 

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Is he a Taylor fangirl or what? He sounds like one. Angry that she doesnt get to beat her 1989 debut. Ridiculous to imply boosting her numbers is important for the entire music business!

 

I find your artist bias far more worrying. Makes me doubt your numbers.

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20 hours ago, Valentine said:

Having a meltdown over 30k. God they're embarrassing  :ahh: 

30k is enough for a #1 in 2017. It’s also enough to make this Taylor’s record high debut. I’m glad they’re holding Billboard accountable for their inaccuracies.

19 hours ago, Communion said:

HDD doesn't even have accurate receipts. :skull:

Nielsen Soundscan is the industry standard and who provide BB with numbers.

 

10 hours ago, OneAndOnly said:

BB/Nielsen have always released official, reliable numbers. There's no reason to be confused.

Y’all must be new. Nielsen wasn’t even accurate until 2005 in America and they’re pretty late to things, too (see: Soundscan Japan). It’s good to see multiple companies dragging each other for any and all inaccuracies.

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On 20/11/2017 at 10:06 PM, Save-Me-Oprah said:

30,000 copies is almost as much as some girls get in total first week, I don't blame Big Machine for fuming.

 

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This. Most acts are lucky to sell this for an album in pure sales overall! :jonny::jonny2:

 

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On 11/21/2017 at 11:26 AM, Inner Insanity said:

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Exactly. Much ado about nothing.

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On 11/21/2017 at 10:52 PM, Eternium said:

Y’all must be new. Nielsen wasn’t even accurate until 2005 in America and they’re pretty late to things, too (see: Soundscan Japan). It’s good to see multiple companies dragging each other for any and all inaccuracies.

You must be new sis cause HDD conceded Billboard is the standard cause they're using BB's figures for 1989 and not their own.

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1 hour ago, Communion said:

You must be new sis cause HDD conceded Billboard is the standard cause they're using BB's figures for 1989 and not their own.

Why would you quote Chartmasters to the person who runs their thread?

 

HDD isn’t always accurate nor is Billboard. The lashings they give each other and competition for accuracy is a good thing for the industry and chart fans.

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On 20/11/2017 at 4:02 PM, Yndda said:

all of this over 30k difference when either way the number is still gargantuan

 

 

Not when most pop girls struggle to sell more than 30k without SPS.

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Just now, Mr.Link said:

Not when most pop girls struggle to sell more than 30k without SPS.

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that's them, I guess

but to go off like this over something like this is… interesting, esp coming from HDD

 

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