Cardi B fans are up in arms after learning that her smash hit ‘Bodak Yellow’ was knocked from #1 by a song which may have “cheated” its way to the position.
Details below…
‘Bodak’ was on its way to spending its fourth way at #1 when it booted from the position by Post Malone’s ‘Rockstar.’
Why thousands of Cardi fans are enraged?
Swelling claims that Cardi would still be #1 if not for an alleged scam employed by Mr. Malone.
Part of that song’s chart success comes from a YouTube video uploaded in September by Post’s label, Republic Records, that features the chorus on a loop for 3:38, which is the same amount of time as the full song. This video doesn’t feature any of the song’s verses or 21 Savage’s guest verse either. In the video’s bio, there’s a link that sends viewers to the streaming service of their choice to listen to the full song. The looped clip currently has over 41 million views and is roughly averaging more than a million views per day. According to a person familiar with the situation, a view of the video counts for the charts in the same way that a view on a remix of an instrumental track would.
Reps for Malone’s label are yet to respond to the allegation as industry insiders fear stories like these will become commonplace once YouTube streams count towards Billboard 200 chart positions.
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YA’LL BETTA SPILL THAT WHOLE POT OF TEA! lol
It hasn’t even been a week and YouTube streams are FAILING
Post ain’t even dope. This is fishy.
lol neither is corni lol
Your dumb ? Head ass always got something negative to say
Both of th m are mediocre rappers so who cares
He looks like he reeks ? disgusting.
He does look FONKY chile lol
Give it up.. she had a #1 single congrats now its other peoples turn. For real for real. I hope people didn’t think it was gonna stay #1 and beat Mariah Carey record lol. Bodak is a bop and cute for the club and car ride but come on that’s it.
lol not corni fans being salty just like they accused nicki fans lmao
Thank u!!!! Y’all cheated by trying to dethrone Taylor with that discount !!! F*** outta here
Does the charts really matter, especially with today’s generation of “talent?”
Right!! ?
HELL NO WHOSE INTO THIS FOOLISHNESS?!!
Atlantic made sure BY went number one in the first place but I guess we’ll save that tea for another day.
Lol really. So now we’re gonna act like Cardi’s label didn’t pull some scams to make her knock Taylor from #1 and block Sam Smith? Pot meet kettle much?
lmao told yall corni was gonna become the new iggy lmao
Why are they mad? They did almost the same thing to get her #1…they hade meme…posters…hashtags they taged her every where saying do it for the culture? to beat Taylor…so what the difference
THEY BOTH USED PAYOLA!!
They should not be counting youtube streams in the first place! Youtube is FREE! No free streams should be included. If people did not pay to listen then there is nothing to count! Billboard is wrong for that because they are supposed to be tracking SALES and not the amount of times a song is clicked on for free. Any savy computer programmer can create a program that will automatically click on a song millions of times a day so counting that is RIDICULOUS!
lol but streaming helped corni get to #1 so whats the difference lol
YouTube Red is not free.
I know they didn’t think Bodak Yellow would be #1 forever. Although I must admit.. this Post Malone song isn’t #1 material. But what is these days ??
Don’t get salty because Austin’s team came up with a better marketing strategy than Bardi Yellow
Who cares? The charts these days are all comprised of scams and schemes to get songs to no.1. It’s kind of like in the 90s when Mariah and J. Ho were using Payola to make sure radio stations played their songs a certain amount of times throughout the day. Cardi and her team went on a campaign and told people to go stream, request, and do this and that to get to Bodak Yellow to no.1.
Billboard is doing too much these days.