⚠️ Billboard Rule Change Updates ⚠️ Billboard rule change, effective immediately: • Physical D2C shipments which fall outside of "established sales trends" will require the reporting store to provide enhanced tracking status along with other info such as geo-location data and if a VPN was used to make the purchase. • Any D2C store with three submissions of illegitimate data within a 12-month period may receive a minimum 90-day reporting suspension. Billboard rule change, effective since February 28: • Digital albums sold via an artist, label, or other official web store must now be redeemed in order to be chart eligible. • In addition, verification using hCaptcha is now required to prevent bots. (This means that if you purchase a digital album, it must be delivered to you the same week you made the purchase in order for that sale to be chart eligible that week. Pre-orders are safe though.) Billboard rule change, effective April 4: • "Digital D2C exclusive versions" cannot be put up for sale during the middle of the first week. Either need to be available for pre-order or held for a later week of release. • [MAJOR 🚨] Only four (4) "digital D2C exclusive versions" will be allowed for the life of an album. Includes deluxe versions. Minimum price of albums increasing at all retailers: $7.99 - CD $7.99 - Cassette $15.99 - Vinyl Initial changes were quietly introduced with releases beginning February 28. More changes expected April. #ATEEZ #에이티즈 #KQ #ATINY via chartdata [NOTE]: Their could be more information floating out there, but this is what we have right now and what's been circulating.