Tyler, the Creator is wondering if there's some funny business going on over at TIDAL. The Odd Future rapper's newly released solo album titled "Flower Boy" is competing with Meek Mill's "Wins and Losses" and Lana Del Rey's "Lust for Life" for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
But based on tweet's from Tyler Wednesday, July 26, it seems as though he feels like TIDAL is giving Meek an unfair advantage.
"IM PETTY I WANT THAT TOP SPOT HAHAHA I WANT IT SO BAD MAN," he wrote. "DAMN TIDAL GOT ALBUMS PLAYING BEFORE A PAYWALL WHICH MAKES ME THINK NIGGAS CAN HAVE BOTS SPIKING UP PLAYS FOR BILLBOARD ON FRIDAY HMM. FUCK THAT I NEED THAT TOP SPOT."
On Thursday, due to many requests, Billboard explained how they count free streams.
"Free streams -- with 'free' defined as streams a listener has accessed without having a paid subscription or as part of a trial period subscription -- have counted towards the Billboard 200 since it changed to a consumption model in 2014 where the ranking is determined by blending album sales, track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units."
HitsDailyDouble reports that two other recent TIDAL releases have come under scrutiny.
"In the first week of wide release for Jay-Z’s 4:44, total reported streams to SoundScan were 122m, which was 68m more than the same streaming services reported to BuzzAngle. Similarly, two weeks prior, DJ Khaled won a race with Imagine Dragons for #1 when SoundScan logged 17m more streams than BuzzAngle. Industry insiders have confirmed that both Apple Music and Spotify, the leading steaming services with over 90% combined share, reported the same numbers to both chart services."
There are rumblings that Nielsen may change the way streams are counted in the future. In the meantime, artists will just have to deal with the status quo.
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