there was an article a while ago cos she passed 100 hits in the US, and I think they said she's had 40 as lead, 60 as feature approx

she’s got 110 hits now, which is more than Elvis Presley and as many as Future. only Drake, Glee and Lil Wayne have more.

Drake I can kinda get as he’s huge to me. But the likes of Future and Lil Wayne having so many always baffles me like I’d struggle to name more than 5 tracks by them :lol:

 

 

Nicki kinda relies on other people to give her hits though. Like how many of her Hot 100 entries are purely solo or her as lead artist not feature? Idk. I’ve never really been keen on her anyways but this year has kinda shown her desperation more than anything.

This is most rappers in general though from besides probably Drake :lol:

 

down to US #34 this week breaking the record for fastest fall from number one debut.

guess Mariah has the record fall from #1 overall with AIWFCIY

Billboard have to be seriously considering massively downweighting if not entirely eliminating pure sales from the Hot 100 formula at this point. This is the most blatant example yet of bundle sales / multibuying creating a #1 that is very clearly not popular enough to be a #1.

 

Well I wasn't entirely right but unsurprisingly this farcical #1 (among others, but I suspect it was this one in particular that may be the straw that broke the camel's back hence why I'm posting this here) has led to Billboard at least changing their bundling rules again. The article specifically mentions 6ix9ine as well as Ariana & Justin.

 

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business...-ticket-bundles

 

Summary:

 

- merch & ticket sales bundles will now only count as sales if they are specifically 'opt in' (they already changed their rules once before to attempt to make this the case but merch stores got around it by making the bundle option way more visible and basically hiding the non-bundled equivalents, Billboard will now require them to only list items as unbundled and give the option of adding the album into it for an additional cost rather than that cost being included in the default price)

 

- physical sales will only count as sales once they are shipped (so the tactic of offering a physical version to be shipped months later, but bundled with a digital copy available instantly, will no longer count)

 

This may just lead to the practice of big artists offering physical versions dying again, or them just delaying releases by a few months so they can ship physical versions within the week instead of months later. I'm sure labels are going to try their hardest to work around any new rules Billboard brings in (and of course in the case of 'TROLLZ' a big part of its push to #1 was not only the bundles but also just excessive multibuying of the digital track on iTunes and the artists' websites which isn't covered by these rule changes) but I'm glad that they are taking more action as their rule change earlier in the year clearly didn't actually do much to fix the problem.

 

(edit: just seen there was a topic made about this in the international charts forum already :magic:)

In slightly more relevant news to this thread 6ix9ine's follow-up single to this, 'YAYA', came very close to ending his run of making the Hot 100 with all of his singles. Sadly it just scraped in at #99 (actually lower than it charted in the UK, where it somehow got as high as #87 off pretty much just YouTube). But still a big lol at this coming just weeks after he got a #1 hit. He'll no doubt do better when he releases another English language song but I hope this is another early sign that people really are finally getting bored of him.

 

Meanwhile 'TROLLZ' has gone 1-34-54-83.

His album is out next week. Doubt it’ll be too big here in the Uk but his last one did get a top 10 and top 30 hit despite being a mid week release so he might get 3 songs too 40 this time....