Google:

"Yes, singles are counted in album sales:
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) counts 10 track sales or 1,500 on-demand audio and/or video streams as equivalent to one album sale.
This includes singles released before the album's release date.
This means that a song can contribute to the certification of both the single and the album. For example, if a song is streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single could be Diamond and the album could be Platinum."

yes it is counted

bro what are you trolling

will this ever end?

if its 700k in a week how is it 1mill in a day the singles counted for the billboard 700k already

edit: it is then x2 for riaa's milly plat of the singles and fresh album

Never lol. Especially with the lawsuits

Guy isn’t even speaking English anymore 😭

drakes first day would have to be at least 500k, and billboard does count pre single streams together, so fresh album plus pre-singles is that 500

the other days = the rest of the 700k range divided - the 200 or less the rest of the week

so riaa took the 500k+ that already includes singles and albums and x2 for its plat first day - because it counts it as a double and will only times it if its a double

the singles dont push it over the edge for the plat from riaa - doubles are only unique for riaa

you said pre-singles dont get counted by billboard, but they do

thread only got 7 pages?

they can’t spin this?

that guy is a European, u gotta stop going back and forth w some of these niggas yo

FATD is by far Drakes worst album, what’s GNX excuse for selling so low after his promo run this year?

I agree, seeing how Drake performs is much more interesting

Drake dead

i was so confused lol

its why artists tack on their huge as single to their album to boost fw - like people were saying kendrick is gonna "cheat" with his next album if he puts nlu on there and go "instant" double plat with the biggest fw ever lol

and iirc hotline bling did the same thing for views

and migos' culture

and a bunch of other s***

dude just trolled tf me

you got me good bro, that was a racket

I’m European now?

i guess i better put another technicality that the pre-singles have to be added to a pre save state before the album before is officially release which they all do lol

in case of another nitpick

You don’t appear to be comprehending or listening so I’m not really sure what the point of continuing to school you is.

You continue to assert that Billboard counts streams from prior to the album’s release, which they don’t. Everything downstream from that in your ‘calculations’ is fan fiction

Scorpion sold however much it sold on the first day + the album equivalent units of its high-performing singles which occurred before release. Added up to 1M for first day Platinum RIAA cert. The rest of the week it got to 700k first week sales (just by the sales and streams in release week) for Billboard. Nothing was counted as a double album. Nothing here is complex or difficult to understand

pre release single sales are not counted toward the first week. They count toward overall sales.

if they are put on pre-save, they do

which most artists do

Such a weird guy

Touché

I’m still dying at the “bro he’s European” comment