‘MONSTER’ US CHARTS FALLOUT: IS DJ KHALED ABOUT TO SUE BILLBOARD AFTER MISSING OUT ON NO.1?
How much does being No.1 on the weekly industry album charts really matter in a streaming world where the concept of an LP ‘sale equivalent’ is as nebulous and debatable as it comes? Literally: how much does it matter? Like, what financial number would you put on it? We might be about to find out. According to the (notoriously tabloid-y) Page Six, one artist who just missed out on a US chart-topping album is planning to hit Billboard with a “monster lawsuit” in retaliation. That artist is DJ Khaled , signed to Sony’s Epic Records. His latest album, Father Of Asahd , landed at No.2 on the Billboard 200 chart two weeks ago, underneath the No.1 record that week, Igor , by Tyler, The Creator The breakdown of those albums on that Billboard chart, for the week ending May 23, were as follows: Igor was credited with 165,000 weekly equivalent sales, broken down into 74,000 ‘real’ sales (of physical and digital albums), plus 90,...