Grace Kim, TIDAL’s director of marketing, told Spin that the leak wasn’t impactful. “Unfortunately we still rely on systems, and there was a system error,” she explained. “But I don’t think it hurt it at all.”
That claim is holding true. Last week, the RIAA certified ANTI platinum after registering 1 million downloads in just 14 hours. Billboard and Nielsen are counting ANTI‘s sales on TIDAL towards their totals, but they won’t count the Samsung download codes gifted to fans. The 400,000-plus sales of ANTI via TIDAL will be counted by Billboard on next week’s charts.
Though the RIAA is recognizing ANTI’s milestone numbers, Billboard and Nielsen are not counting ANTI’s sales on TIDAL towards their totals. “There were conversations [with Billboard] early on when this promotion and partnership started, but ultimately it became about giving music directly to the fans,” Kim explained. “While everyone would’ve loved to have it count, the thing that we’re focused on here is that it’s number one.”
What are we rehashing old news? TIDAL reps are the ones who went to spin and told them this and we've known this info the day ANTi was released/available
