“Billboard and Nielsen Music are working closely to ensure both the accuracy and legitimacy of the sales volumes being reported for Kris Wu this week,” a Nielsen rep said in a statement, speaking as Billboard’s data provider. At time of publishing on Wednesday, Antares was available on iTunes and Wu’s track “We Alive” was at No. It also denied that the album had been taken offline from the iTunes store, as some had believed when the songs’ rankings dipped. On Wednesday, Universal Music China also issued a statement calling Wu’s chart performance with Antares “genuine and effective,” according to a translation from Sixth Tone. Kris Wu Releases 'Coupe' With Rich the Kid Ahead of 'Antares' Album: Listen iTunes chart.Ī rep for Apple could not be reached at time of publishing. iTunes store, leading Wu’s songs to drop from the U.S. Accordingly, assuming this is true, once the album was released in China on Tuesday, Wu’s fans began no longer needed to hack the U.S. To do this, Wu’s fans in China would need to be technically savvy enough to mask their true IP address with a VPN and gain access to the U.S. 7), Braun posted to Instagram that he and Wu had spoken and he wanted to clear up any “rumors” that had come out about them both.Īccording to Braun’s post, it was explained to him and Wu that because Wu’s released was held back in China to coincide with his birthday on Tuesday that his fans there “went and got the music any way they could and that was US Itunes.” On Sunday, this led him to post in a since-deleted tweet alleging Wu was using bots to drive his sales. Grande’s manager, Scooter Braun, was among those wondering how Wu managed to drive his sales to such heights. (His top track “Deserve” featuring Travis Scott dropped nearly a month ago and has almost 24 million streams, while Grande’s “thank u, next” already has over 29 million streams on Spotify.) Kris Wu Shares 'November Rain' Music Video From Debut Album, 'Antares': Watchįurther adding to the mystery: Wu’s streaming figures are relatively low, with just over 1 million monthly listeners reported on Spotify - which is not available in China - and his top Antares tracks on the platform performing well but not exceptionally so.
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