“There were conversations [with Billboard] early on when this promotion and partnership started, but ultimately it became about giving music directly to the fans,”
They TRIED so hard to make Billboard be part of this tomfoolery but Billboard said NO!
Navy trying to say because of an available free copy that the low sales are understandable Everyone's albums are online for free yet that didn't stop ARTPOP (which leaked weeks before it's release) from doing 260k
It leaked like a few days before its release date lol
Everyone's albums are online for free yet that didn't stop ARTPOP (which leaked weeks before it's release) from doing 260k 
just admit that this is your worst nightmare come true. rihanna got smashed into dust