the album was released for purchase on Tidal Wednesday night.
460 copies were downloaded from that time until the end of the tracking week.
That's less than 20 copies every hour
460 copies were bought when the album was available for purchase, which was only for 20 minutes. You could ONLY buy the album for 20 minutes. When they put the album back up you couldn't buy it.
460 copies were bought when the album was available for purchase, which was only for 20 minutes. You could ONLY buy the album for 20 minutes. When they put the album back up you couldn't buy it.
Billboard reports that ANTI debuts at No. 27 on their Album 200 chart, due in large part to streams of “Work,” the album’s first single, and other album tracks made available on TIDAL between Wednesday and Friday. (It also apparently counts only 460 copies of the album sold before the Friday cut-off. If you need a quick math refresher: No. 27 is pretty far away from No. 1, and 460 copies is far, far from platinum.
Of course, we’re having a bit of fun with the fact that ANTI debuted on an a day that was not a Friday and that it wasn’t available to purchase for more than a day after it was released. Things will look much better for Rihanna next week: with a full week of actual sales (and nearly a full week of being perched atop the iTunes Albums Chart), she is likely to score her second No. 1 album after all. Still. 460 copies. Damn.
Tidal putting it up for sale for a few minutes is just like any other street date violation. It only debuted on the BB200 because it was also available for streaming early. So now people are making fun of the low debut. And of course Tidal's bogus claim of it selling 400k, which was always ludicrous. It's probably how many people listened to the album that day (since it had 4 million streams).
Thank you for helping put this all into perspective.
2 girls at work were talking about anti. One mentioned how she went platinum in one day and i QUICKLY interjected saying how those were all given for frih.
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