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Originally posted by Sammi
Yes, let's reward mediocrity instead of rewarding those who are still able to sell albums. Make a separate chart for streaming, I don't care, just don't mix the two together. Don't hide, don't inflate the real sales.
Nicki Minaj can't go on twitter and claim she ''sold'' 3.3 million albums, she just can't. That's not fair to the artists who actually sold that much.
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LOL you are bothered by Nicki, huh.
But isn't this for US only so won't they remove WW numbers.
I thought she said she "sold" 3.3M albums WW or something.
So only the US streams would count.
I think the industry and many GP will eventually understand the difference between pure sales and free streams...most already do. I saw some articles over the past year educating the GP.
I don't think artist with pure sales are going to feel threatened by artist that will only get the same certs based on video views and free streams.
I can already count on one hand the first 5 artists that will use those new certs to take attention away from the pure sales.
Let them albums/singles/streaming artists will remain supreme