decided it would probably be better if it didn’t count them at all. Sort of. It has also attempted to halt a ruse to boost first week single sales by selling limited edition CD singles that don’t actually exist.Under the new bundling rules, which affect all of Billboard’s song and album charts, records bundled with another product as a single priced sale will not be counted.
Noting that it’s not actually very long since it last updated the rules in this area, the company says it’s making these new changes “in an acknowledgement that those measures have fallen short of the intended goal of accurately reflecting consumer intent”.Announced in November last year, the changes put in place in January were implemented to combat the practice of.
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