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The publicity with Nicki is the reason he's selling well. The album is a piece of **** so don't expect it to have longevity.

Yeah, it's kinda confusing, because Meek Mill will be #1 on BB200 next week (again), since BB will use the same data they used for this week's chart plus 4 extra days. What I don't get is if both charts will count for official stats, I mean, Meek Mill scoring 2 weeks at #1.

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I hope not. It's not even logical.

It would make sense if next week was just a 4-day week, which wouldn't be completely fair either.

11-day week also isnt fair. for me 7 days and 4 days as two seperate charts is better. let have meek have two weeks and 1.

let uptown funk beat record

and... see you again 13 weeks at 1? lol

Uh, so there's an official chart for the 7 days and then an official chart for 11 days including the same 7 days?

Um...

4 days.. The chart would just be the same as the prior week. Not enough time for change. Four days extra is a little more feasible.

but Billboard is using this one:

You seem to hate any hip hop that's not Lyrical. Not all rap needs not be lyrical. We are on a pop music form. Most pop music is not really "lyrical" Just because you don't like it does not mean it is "a piece of ****". I like it because of the beats and Meeks flow even though he is not the most lyrical rapper. Cole, Kendrick, Schoolboy Q, and Gambino are all selling and their music is "lyrical". There is room it all.

on billboard hot 100 yes but on billboard 200 who knows

Uptown Funk relies somewhat on the weekend effect at I Tunes to boost its sales each week and help its Hot 100 position. With a Monday through Thursday tracking period, UF will lose that advantage for this short chart week, so I'm not sure if UF will benefit from the shortened week or not.

Yes I believe that's what Billboard is doing. But as they said for their archives and data records, they won't count the overlapping 7 days twice for the digital sales, streams etc since that will make the song's data inaccurate. I think they'll only use it for chart placements.

Meek SLAYING.

They are using four days of sales and five days of airplay data for Monday's chart. They're not double counting anything. It's two separate charts.

They never said that. They clearly said that next week's chart will use 11-day charts from Nielsen Soundscan, so it wouldn't make sense that they will only count 4-5 days of airplay data.

Unless they were talking only about album sales.

But what about ""Nielsen Music will process data incorporating an 11-day cycle [Monday, June 29, through Thursday, July 9]. That 11-day period will inform the Billboard charts that will post on Billboard on Tuesday, July 14"?

There's an article from Billboard I shared late last week explaining how they were handling the situation. I'm not in a place to look it up right now though, but that explained everything.

Just look at tomorrow's charts as a really detailed "midweek chart". It incorporates some but not all of the data that will be used for the official charts on Tuesday.

The article clearly said no data would be double counted on the Hot 100 either. However Billboard intended that to be interpreted is no longer that important to me. I'm not looking up the article again, and this topic isn't worth arguing about anymore, so I'm done discussing it.