
Read the full explanation over at Billboard. You can read Justin Bieber‘s response to these claims right here. streams, 172,000 in radio airplay audience and 24,000 sold.” streams, 26.3 million in radio airplay audience and 108,000 sold in the tracking week. “Overall, ‘Stuck With U’ drew 28.1 million U.S.


Each song has its own ratio breakdown based on its specific activity, which contributes to the overall chart average each week,” they continued. “The Hot 100 has a locked-in methodology, updated at least once a year, with each metric divided by a certain number, which results in an average chart ratio whereby streams are the most heavily weighted factor, followed next by radio airplay and then sales. They continued, “As noted in this week’s story announcing the results on the latest Hot 100, “Stuck With U” sold 108,000 in the tracking week ending May 14 and “Gooba” sold 24,000, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.”

6ix9ine, meanwhile, released a non-signed CD single/digital download on the last day of the tracking week via his webstore.” A signed single or album is an accepted form of sales available to any artist and has been noted repeatedly within Billboard chart stories when such items have impacted the Hot 100. The sales spike is likely referring to sales on Thursday, May 14 - the final day of the tracking week - when signed “Stuck With U” singles were put up for sale in Grande and Bieber’s webstores.

Billboard is responding to Tekashi 6ix9ine‘s allegations that Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber bought their way to the top with their new song, “Stuck With U.” The song topped the charts this week, with Tekashi‘s “Gooba” landing at number three.īillboard wrote, “‘Stuck With U’ was available to purchase through the week as a digital download, as well as in various physical format/digital download combinations through Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s webstores.
