

2.Ħix9ine’s label, 10K Projects, was previously distributed by Universal Music, the same conglomerate that markets Big Sean, Grande and Bieber. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100. However, subsequent 6ix9ine singles have made much less noise, with Alpha Data rating “Yaya” at 37,700 during its first week in July, and “Punani” garnering 17,400 when it started out on Aug. 3 on Rolling Stone’s chart, but with a bigger sum, 203,400, compared to “Gooba,” while radio play helped the “Trollz” start at No. of America and Billboard all use different methods to calculate a song’s standing, with the last-mentioned adding radio play to the mix of sales and streams.)Ħix9ine’s second song from the new album, “Trollz,” which featured Nicki Minaj, also started fast: It began at No. Alpha Data’s year-to-date Song Project report shows 1.1 million units for “Stuck,” 878,000 for “Gooba.” (It should also be noted that Alpha Data, Rolling Stone, the Recording Industry Assn.

However, certifications aren’t issued without official paperwork being filed, and the Grande/Bieber camp may not have done that yet.
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Rolling Stone showed 244,500 project unites for Grande/Bieber that week (sales plus the equivalent value of streams), and 181,900 for “Gooba.”Īnd, if you’re still keeping score - as each artist’s fans surely are - 6ix9ine’s track was certified gold in May and platinum in June, while “Stuck With You” hasn’t picked up either of those trophies. When the dust settled, “Stuck” beat “Gooba” in a one, two finish on both Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Songs and Billboard’s Hot 100. While some chart observers thought his “Gooba” had been boosted by manufactured YouTube plays, he publicly accused Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber of benefitting from artificially juiced sales for their duet single, “Stuck With You,” and in the process leveled a battery of unproven allegations about Billboard’s chart process.

6ix9ine had just received an early release from that sentence in May - due to coronavirus concerns - when the first single from “TattleTales” launched in a swirl of controversy. In 2019, 6ix9ine (real name: Daniel Hernandez) accepted a two-year sentence when he pled guilty to nine federal felonies including racketeering conspiracy, firearms charges, narcotics trafficking, and violent crimes in aid of racketeering. And also, both artists have been arrested - and that’s one area where 6ix9ine tops Big Sean by an exponential degree.īig Sean (real name: Sean Anderson) accepted a plea deal for a lesser charge when he was booked on a sexual-assault allegation in 2011. Both are platinum-certified rappers - 6ix9ine’s first album “Dummy Boy,” released in 2018, went platinum the following year, while eight of his singles have reached platinum or multi-platinum status. None of his four sets has registered less than gold his most recent, “I Decided,” went platinum in 2017.īig Sean and 6ix9ine have a couple things in common. 9.įor Big Sean, this start helps him continue a roll that began when his freshman album “Finally Famous” was certified platinum in 2011. Through the first four days of the current chart period, Alpha shows Big Sean’s “Detroit 2” collecting almost 65,000 project units, with 14,000 week-to-date units placing 6ix9ine at No.

Depending on how data service Alpha Data counts the various D2C offerings, “TattleTales” could have a slightly higher sum on the next Rolling Stone chart than it does on Billboard’s, but either way, Big Sean looks like the next chart king. One confounding issue might be a recent change in album bundles implemented by Billboard and its data source, Nielsen Music MRC, with some of 6ix9ine’s direct-to-consumer units not shipping in the proper window of time to be eligible for first-week numbers.
