Celeb News: Billboard Director: ANTI is not platinum

Gary

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Rihanna’s new album Anti is living up to its defiant name. Today, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Rihanna’s new album as platinum, but Billboard is not recognizing it as such on the charts. Billboard’s Director of Charts Silvio Pietroluongo spoke with Digital Trends to explain how one organization can call an album platinum, while another does not.

Back in October, Rhianna inked a lucrative $25 million partnership deal with Samsung. As part of her partnership, Rihanna offered a promo code for fans to download Anti for free from Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service. As a result, the album was downloaded 1.4 million times in 14 hours, according to Grace Kim, Tidal’s director of Marketing (speaking with Spin). But, as Pietroluongo explains, Billboard has a “well documented policy of not counting free albums towards the charts.”

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/did-rihan...235515409.html

This is a mess. Rihanna worked so hard on this album and deserves a platiunum certification since it was downloaded 1.4 million times! Even if it's free, people clearly wanted to listen to it so it should count!

aquarius

AP and closed

popmusic

BB drags RIAA, HDD drags BB, ATRL drags HDD. Circle jerk.

Navyofbadgals

already closed don't try it

Hugamari

Billboard doesn't handle what's Platinum and what's not. They decide chart positions, not certifications of singles/albums.

And the fact of the matter is that SOMEBODY paid money for those albums. Regardless of if it's 1 million Rihanna fans or 1 corporation holding their end of a bargain, a sale is a sale.