If any of y'all know a store that sells brand new records at 16$ a copy please lmk

I'm crying this a direct response to Drake

S*** is like minimum 30$ even on the artist's website nowadays

what did Drake do ?

Wait that's crazy I don't remember this at all and I bought that vinyl full price smh

billboard.com/pro/travis-scott-sold-utopia-vinyl-5-dollars-loss

Sell $$$ for like $4.99 in the middle of the first week digitally. They raised the price and said you can't do it mid week

This is crazy

these rules are more so aimed at taylor swift tho, they added rules of only 4 editions to an album which is a direct target at her and her 15 versions of an album

drake selling 15k physicals isnt on there mind

taylor moved 1.6 MILLION physicals first week last album

Man I got fleeced I definitely paid way more than $5 for mine

7.99 is too expensive for cassettes

Why do record companies/artists care so much about getting to the top of the Billboard 200? Does the record company or the artist get a bonus or something? It's the only reason I could see why a record company would sell these albums at a loss

travis and abel, count ur days

Some more billboard changes

probably manufacturing costs cause its so niche at this point

biggest gangster in the music industry

your own tapes are $9 bro

Im not expert, but it's for stats "#1 song in the world" etc, having the most #1s. TDE just did that with SZA dropped a deluxe then bragged about breaking an MJ record lol. I think it's all bout the stats and records

And in contract negotiations you can say "I dropped 10 #1 songs over the last 3 years" or something to that effect

i have never seen a bsk cassette irl

Surprised it took this long for the complete gamification of Billboard. They're gonna reach a point where they're constantly tweaking the rules in direct response to the latest meta like how Overwatch was at the end.

I’m not saying its too expensive to sell em for

But a $5 cassette should count for a sale

I think they reached that point already, didn't they just change the rules a year or two ago?

Last sentence makes the most sense from the artist's POV, it gives them more leverage

But for the label? I'm surprised they'd even accept the massive discount thing that Trav did the Utopia vinyl, especially since they pay all of the expenses associated with manufacturing the vinyl copies