A discrepancy on this week’s Nielsen Music album gross sales numbers has been found. In keeping with HITS Each day Double, the gross sales for Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Dummy Boy really surpassed Travis Scott’s Astroworld album, which was named this week’s No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.
“Our workforce has accomplished a deep dive and located the trigger the preliminary discrepancy,” Nielsen’s Drew Bennett stated. “We’ve since then reprocessed the roles vital and re-finalized the charts. Because of this, 6ix9ine’s Dummy Boy will probably be shifting to #1… Our workforce is working rapidly to establish the foundation trigger this discrepancy to make sure that we get it proper the primary time.”
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As beforehand reported, Astroworld offered 71,048 60 whole album equal items, 31,455 pure album gross sales and pulled in a streaming rely 51,953,691 this week, a 60 p.c soar from his No. 7 place final week.
In the meantime, Dummy Boy reeled in 65,598 whole album equal items, 10,137 pure album gross sales and a streaming rely 73,231,512, which wasn’t sufficient to knock Scott out the coveted spot — or so it appeared.
6ix9ine is presently behind bars at a New York jail the place he’s awaiting path. He’s going through a number of felonious expenses, together with racketeering. A decide has set his trial for September four, 2019.