So "High by the Beach" just got demoted from #7 to #51 on the Hot 100 due to a sales glitch or something. The point is, Billboard received incorrect data and corrected their mistake.
Why wasn't the same done with Gaga's "Dope" in late 2013?
The track only sold 31,000 copies, yet peaked at #8 that week because of streams from her performance of Dope at the YouTube Awards.....yet the streams came from an AD (which was the FULL performance, very rare for an ad to be that long) that played in front of videos, basically meaning that Interscope paid to have that ad there and those streams were still counted.
After the ad was removed the views dropped to zero:
Counting streams from a paid full length ad that played in front of videos (meaning no one was choosing to click on it) was CLEARLY shady and should not have been allowed.
Why was "Dope"'s chart position never changed despite "High by the Beach" being changd now?
EDIT: This thread is not meant to be a flamebait mess like some people are turning it into. I'm asking why Billboard's approach to questionable sales data has changed with these two songs as a reference point.
Queen of payola I guess
