ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 2/1/2016
As we all know, Rihanna dropped new single "Work ft Drake" last Thursday. It was followed up by system malfunction on Tidal that leaked the album to the whole world for free a few hours before the album was to drop. Tidal says it wasn't there fault but Universal Music's fault. I honestly feel that if that didn't happened wouldn't of gotten the album til February 30. Within 15 hours "Anti" had enough streams and downloads to be certified platinum by the RIAA.
Here's the problem.
Billboard and Neilson Soundscan won't be counting the free downloads from her Samgsung deal. So according to them, Rihanna only 400k of the Tidal streams. That's totally understandable be it that Jay Z's deal with Samsung was slightly different. Samsung purchased "Magna Carta Holy Grail" which is why the downloads counted on Billboard and Soundscan.
Nonetheless, the video for "Work" should be dropping soon. Rih Rih and Drake were spotted shooting the video down the street from my house on top of Target. I cannot make this up.