Did Billboard Accelerate Bundle Rule Change Just To Screw Tekashi 6ix9ine?

Tekashi 6ix9ine has accused Billboard of being out to get him.

He may have a point.

This week, the first-week projections for his post-prison album TattleTales has been downgraded from 150K to 50K to 40K, delighting 6ix9ine's many well-earned haters.

The reason for the dip is that Billboard will reject about 100,000 of 6ix9ine's merch bundles even though -- as 6ix9ine's buddy DJ Akademiks points out -- their new rule on bundles wasn't set to go into effect until this week.

 

 

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About 100k album bundles for 69 didn’t get counted despite the deadline when billboard changes would go in effect is still a month out. Thoughts?

A post shared by  DJ Akademiks (@akademiks) on Sep 8, 2020 at 1:50pm PDT

It would seem like Billboard may have moved the change up a week to screw 6ix9ine.

Now that the new rule is in place a lot of your favorite artists are about to post much smaller numbers.