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Juan Carlos
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Ben better be on the phone threatening Billboard right now! I am not having any riggery. Us Dua fans have been through enough!

This is reminding me of that time Eagles denied Britney - Blackout the number 1 album due to last night rule change in their charts.

 

On November 6, 2007, Billboard announced that even though The Eagles's first-week sales of Long Road Out of Eden had handily surpassed Spears, they would not debut atop the chart because of rules forbidding albums exclusively sold at one retail outlet (Walmart in this case) from entering the Billboard 200. The magazine's senior analyst and director of charts Geoff Mayfield explained he was frustrated by the situation, saying: "I can believe the Eagles sold more, but I'm not seeing anything that verifies for me that they outsold her and anything we see otherwise might be from people with a stake in suggesting that." During the afternoon of the same day, Walmart issued a press release announcing that Long Road Out of Eden had sold 711,000 copies. At night, it was announced through an article on Billboard.biz that after an agreement with Nielsen SoundScan, Billboard would allow exclusive album titles that were only available through one retailer to appear on the charts, effective that same week. Hence Long Road Out of Eden would top the Billboard 200, while Blackout would debut at number two, with sales of 290,000 copies. It became Spears' first studio album not to debut at number one.
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They screwed Britney out of a number 1 album so I wouldn't be too surprised if they do the same for Dua on the singles. Billboard are a MESS and always have been. If it's due to bots though, they need to track EVERY TIME that BTS release lmao.

this is so odd... and it's just going to make fans even more angry if they announce she doesn't get it (which I really hope doesn't happen ofc!)
I hope they at least inform Dua what is going on and she isn't a nervous wreck like all the fans who have been in meltdown for 2 days on the trot :snif:

This whole situation is so bizarre. I thought the song was just naturally rising to #1 with the help of a bit of a buying spree. Don't really see why it's being delayed.

 

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