Jelly Roll has claimed that an unnamed artist collected 40,000 faux album gross sales in an try to succeed in Quantity One on the charts.
The singer and rapper appeared as a visitor on The Pat McAfee Present and mentioned how his tenth studio album ‘Superbly Damaged’ debuted at Quantity One on the US Billboard 200 chart with 161,000 album-equivalent items, together with 114,000 pure album gross sales.
In line with Jelly Roll, there was allegedly one other artist who was releasing their album as the identical time as his which had not been projected to be inside a selected variety of gross sales for the highest spot on the charts. Nevertheless, the day earlier than the top of the gross sales depend, the artist ended up promoting near the gross sales quantity for the highest spot on the charts.
The ‘Wild Ones’ rapper shared that he had spoken to his supervisor in regards to the chart race and was informed to not get caught up on the “soiled” aspect of the music enterprise.
“There was an artist that appeared like HITS Every day Double projected they wasn’t even gonna be inside 50-60,000 albums of me and Rod Wave,” stated Jelly Roll. “After which Thursday evening, earlier than the Friday depend ends, 40,000 albums [from a] third-party aggregated website. And also you’re similar to ‘Yo, that’s simply slimey.’ I used an important time period. Now, Luminate who’s accountable for counting file gross sales, rejected these gross sales, which is how I ended up with the Quantity One album.”
Although the rapper has not revealed which artist he was speaking about, folks on-line have believed that he could also be referring to Charli XCX and her remix LP ‘Brat and It’s Fully Totally different however Additionally Nonetheless Brat’, which earned the Quantity Three spot on the US Billboard 200.
Rod Wave’s ‘Final Lap’ adopted behind ‘Superbly Damaged’ touchdown the Quantity Two spot, which Jelly Roll stated ought to’ve earned the Quantity One spot as a result of Wave’s album racking up extra streams than his.
In different information, the rapper lately opened up about his aggravated theft cost from 24 years in the past, and stated he’d like to talk to the folks he robbed.
