{"id":110998,"date":"2024-03-09T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=110998"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:08:16","slug":"mick-mars-solo-album-suffers-due-to-chart-manipulation-by-billboard-industry-source-says-charts-are-rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=110998","title":{"rendered":"Mick Mars’ Solo Album Suffers Due To “Chart Manipulation” By Billboard, Industry Source Says Charts Are “Rigged”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chart manipulation, playola<\/strong>… it all goes hand in hand with the Billboard charts, according to a music industry expert. In a nutshell, the Billboard charts <\/a>are “rigged”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Billboard<\/em> 200<\/strong> is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Album Sales<\/strong> is a music chart published by Billboard<\/em> magazine starting in May 1991, and has existed in its current form since December 2014. It is a weekly chart documenting the best-selling albums on a weekly basis in the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up until December 2014, this had been documented by the Billboard<\/em> 200<\/a> chart, but that chart was altered to factor in music streaming by accounting for album-equivalent units in its tallies to document the effect of the rise of music streaming outlets such as Apple Music and Spotify. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting in the Top Album Sales<\/em> chart’s debut week of May 25, 1991, Billboard<\/em> began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from Soundscan, now known as Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is it possible that ex-KISS guitarist Ace Frehley landed on the Top 200 chart<\/a> (WEEK OF MARCH 9, 2024) at position #72, yet Mars is nowhere to be seen on the Top 200 list at all? Ace only plays small concert venues, while Mick’s band M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE was featured on The Stadium Tour in 2022, playing to over one million fans around North America via 36 tour dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frehley and Mars’ albums both released on the same day (Feb 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The music industry is controlled by “dark forces” who are looking to send a message to certain artists, who dare to challenge the system. Mick Mars’ lawsuit battle against his former band M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE has apparently put the 72-year-old guitar legend on their “shit list”, despite Mars having millions of fans around the world and is estimated to have sold over 50,000 digital units and 50,000 physical copies of his debut solo album “The Other Side of Mars” in the USA the first week it was released on February 23, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to Forbes<\/a>, The Other Side of Mars<\/em> launched highest on the Top Album Sales chart, Billboard\u2019s<\/em> ranking of the bestselling titles in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mars\u2019 first collection on his own debuts at No. 13 on the tally, starting with 5,200 copies sold in the U.S., according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5,200 copies? That number is no way the real sales number, according to TMD’s Randy “Rocket” Cody<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cody comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There is no way in hell Mick only sold that low amount. He is a legend, and my world-famous metal music news website TheMetalDen.com generated tens of millions of impressions promoting his album the last quarter of 2023 as a build up to its release in February of this year. That number is wrong. Mick is #1 all day long.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The maybe-former Cr\u00fce member comes in behind new launches from the likes of Twice (With You-Th<\/em>, No. 1), Le Sserafim (Easy<\/em>, No. 2), French Montana (Mac & Cheese 5<\/em>, No. 3), Ace Frehley (10,000 Volts<\/em>, No. 4), Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner (The Good Riddance Acoustic Shows [Live]<\/em>, No. 11), and Rod Stewart and Jools Holland (Swing Fever<\/em>, No. 12).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ace Frehley #4 is a total joke. That album totally sucks compared to Mick’s masterwork”, Mr. Cody says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time that it\u2019s become a top 20 win on the Top Album Sales chart, The Other Side of Mars<\/em> is also a quick success on the Top Hard Rock Albums list. On that tally, the set starts at No. 23, narrowly breaking onto the 25-spot list.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“13 and 23 are very important occult numbers, and it seems this is how the music industry, run by the Illuminati is sending the rebellious guitarist a message”, according to Mr. Cody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 plus 23 equals 36. That is the mark of the beast 3-6’s is indeed 666.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone can recall DJ Khaled\u2019s high-profile meltdown<\/a> in 2019 when Billboard refused to name Father of Asahd<\/em> the top album on the Billboard 200 (the award when to Tyler, the Creator).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The reason is that Khaled was accused of jacking up his album \u2018sales\u2019 through a novel sponsorship tie-in, which rubbed the Billboard chart authorities the wrong way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khaled threatened to sue \u2014 over a chart position, believe it or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the story goes, Billboard changed the rules right after the Khaled fiasco. That was in 2021, and Billboard has changed the rules numerous times since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with every rule change, there\u2019s a brand-new opportunity to exploit a loophole.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Reggie Gooden <\/a>of 818 Talent explained the “down the dark-and-dirty rabbit hole of Billboard chart-gaming, into a world of \u2018stream farms,\u2019 crafty product tie-ins, \u2018playola,\u2019 and other nefarious weapons to land a number one.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, Gooden flat-out called the Billboard charts \u2018rigged\u2019. It\u2019s almost as if a touchdown pass counted for 6 points, then 9 points, then 4 points, all in the same season<\/em>. \u201cThings are getting out of hand,\u201d Gooden lamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the chart manipulation is not going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gooden said: \u201cThings are getting out of control,\u201d Gooden reiterated.  \u201cWe just have to have incentives for everyone to play fair\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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