KnightofCrescentL

No shade but I understand that to a Britney stan 3 times platinum seems huge, but fans of Rihanna, Gaga, Taylor and Katy are used to singles going Diamond, which is ten by platinum. To us, 3 times platinum is cute but not huge.

Those twitter stan accounts just literally make up random numbers and print them as fact

Bundles are not meant to count anymore for Billboard unless both items are offered seperately and not at a discount price.

Can anyone tell me if the levitating remix is charting as a seperate song or if the original and remix are being combined in its bubbling under position. Thanks.

Gaga was definitely the tipping point for this rule change.

She still used the tactic regardless. Whether a tactic works or not is not the issue, she used it and now will not have the chance to use it again.

Regardless, she still had the order a physical and get a digital now tactic as well as at least 75 merchandise bundles for Chromatica plus those tour bundles that were never going to happen. Do not delude yourself that Gaga did not skew her numbers hugely this era with bundles and merchandise. I look forward to her first No 1 on that merchandise chart Billboard mentioned.

No he isnt right, youre right, they had all those things for the first week of Rain on ME and later they added Sour Candy bundles. When the bundles did their job for the week one any further purchase of those bundle items deflected to a download of the album. Seriously it was a joke. That and the ticket bundles for the tour that was never going to happen. Without all that bundling you can easily take 100k off her first week total . Gaga is even selling Face Coverings bundled with an album for only 15 dollars RIP SOUR CANDY CLOTH FACE COVERING + DIGITAL ALBUM $15.00

The nerve of them to mention Ariana and not Gaga. I feel they ALWAYS mention Ariana's name in these articles. OT - delighted with this news. Certain artists can expect a large first week drop with their next releases.

I just kinda feel everyone who wanted it knew it was out there and bought it. I cannot see this suddenly rocketing back to selling loads more just cos of a few performances.

Seeing as the interludes count its irrelevant. Also the number of tracks is irrelevant. Gaga's album is shorter which means stans can play it more times than Da Baby's, a stream is a stream so it makes no difference whose album has more songs.

As if tweeting about an album is gon make a difference. Everyone who wants this album bought it.

Why do people keep saying She's not promoting. I mean is Da Baby out promoting his album ? No.

Nah I'm just estimating. Maybe I exaggerated a bit.

Gurl I ain't fuming but when you consider at least 100k of her total comes from the ticket bundle, for shows which will not happen, plus the streaming from the collabs, the numbers are not that great.