Oop! Russ Calls Out Billboard and Major Labels For Faking Streams!

Oop! Russ Calls Out Billboard and Major Labels For Faking Streams!

Looks like Russ is out for industry blood. In a hypothetical sense, of course. Taking to Twitter, Russ criticized Billboard and Luminate, the two entities that are in charge of album sales and streams tracking. In his Tweet, Russ alleged that these companies swindled him out of 10,000 sales for his “SANTIAGO” LP. The project was not able to break the Top 10, debuting only at No. 12 on the Billboard 200. 

“Billboard [and] Luminate took away ANOTHER 4,000 of my REAL sales over the weekend, making that 10,000 sales total they took away from me while allowing major labels to fake their streams and sales, and do monopolistic merchandise bundles. Only major labels are allowed to do merchandise bundles because the only approved vendor is a major label vendor.” 

He continued.. 

Russ’ manager also chimed in saying, “The current music ‘charts’ are inflated by fake data, and that data is being verified by one company only. That same company that verifies the data is owned by the same company that owns the ‘charts.’ It’s a rigged game.”

It didn’t end there, however, as Russ continued to call out more corporate entities. 

 

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