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Originally posted by ABEL-o-matic
Mariah's fishy RIAA certs too. 5x platinum for Butterfly when it only sold 2.7M at that time. 
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I mean idk about mariah but I have one great example:
culture club - do you really want to hurt me (I'll be talking about the UK charts, not the USA ones)
it came out on 6 sep 1982, was nowhere for the chart that tracked that week, then randomly showed up on the chart for the following week at 66, following bad press
then it managed to vault at 38, then 15… went on to be #1 some wks later
like I honestly find it to be unrealistic, their last two singles flopped and they released DYRWTHM as a "hope this doesn't flop or else we're DONE" single

it's almost too convenient how it managed to hit top 15 in such a short time, right after them coming off of bad press and two flop singles