Billboard reveals new chart rules, doing away with merch bundles

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In a move sure to be controversial among pop’s upper echelon, Billboard has today announced that merchandise and concert ticket bundles no longer count towards album placements on the Billboard 200 albums chart. This means that albums received when fans purchase a t-shirt or concert ticket, for example, will not be reflected in any official tallies, regardless of whether the album price was built into the bundle cost.

Billboard has set start dates for new rule changes to its charts doing away with the controversial practice of "bundling" albums with concert tickets and merchandise to drive market share and music sales. The changes also affect instant digital sales attached to purchases for physical albums delivered at a later date. Effective immediately, Billboard will no longer approve any new

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Billboard has announced changes to its chart rules for the Billboard 200 albums chart, Hot 100 singles chart, and other album and song charts. 

Billboard is changing the rules to its Billboard 200, Hot 100 and other album and song charts. The announcement comes in an effort to rectify how sales are counted with respect to album bundles with merchandise and concert tickets, as well as instant digital sales attached to purchases for physical albums delivered at a later date.

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