I used to work in the music biz but what the fuck are album equivalent units?

Soooo, lol, my friend’s band got licensed by MTV to have their song used during an episode of the Real World: Cancun. We went to a nearby bar to watch the episode and it was the scene where that one dude spit on some other dude’s tacos, hahaha... but it was like, the montage scene where he was in the confessional,…

Who pays attention to physical release-based charts anymore besides music critics and musicians themselves?

You do realize she still gets paid right ? Because she made a 25 million deal with Samsung regardless if her album doesn’t sell or not. Plus this shouldn’t even count weekly sales, and the physical copies haven’t even came out yet.

Touring. She will make buttloads on touring. And merch from touring. And any music licensing for this album (anytime a song is on a commercial, television show, movie, etc. I had an indie band make $80,000 for an instrumental version of one of their songs for a GE commercial (so like, a minute long, MAYBE). She will…

It was weird to get the album for free when I fully intended to, y’know, pay for it. Seems like my guaranteed album spend wasn’t worth blowing a free copy on. It’s like ANTI was out and then suddenly it was on my computer? What a time to be alive.

We can only hope.

No chance. She’s one of their faves.

The album came out Thursday and was free for half of it. Her tracking period was like 12 hrs, so it’s not really fair to say she sold 460 her first week really. They said she should do about 125k this week and Work is in the top 10 already so..

Does this mean the Rihanna coverage will decline proportionately?

Baby, the internet told me to bang that stripper. It's not my fault that you have an opinion on the subject.