Billboard, Nielsen and any official sales source will not be counting any of it. RIAA is obviously easily bought (since we know our faves have to pay for updated certs)
If Anti sells More than Beyoncé even with the free release then ATRL may blackout again until things cool off cause you know The Hive and The Navy will unleash WWIII
No it didn't. Those 400k are part of the free downloads (1.4M) Even in the full article, Forbes questions the authenticity of those numbers. However, Tidal clears it up with Spin and Yahoo. If she actually sold that HDD and Billboard would have been giving regular updates like they did Bey and Adele.