Megan Thee Stallion’s New Album Loses 30 Million Streams Due To Alleged Botting

Megan Thee Stallion’s New Album First Week Sales After Losing 30 Million Streams Due To Alleged Botting

Couple days ago, Megan Thee Stallion made controversial headlines following reports that Spotify reportedly removed 30 million streams from her albums numbers on the platform, allegedly due to these being bot streams.

Megan Thee Stallion dropped her highly anticipated self titled album ‘Megan’ last month. The album was warmly accepted and praised by the Houston native’s fans.

‘Megan’ boasts of features from buzzing names, including GloRilla and Victoria Monet. Unfortunately, she’s had 30 million streams removed from the album on Spotify, according to a report from No Jumper. It’s said that this is due to the platform detecting bot-like streams.

While fans have come out to her defense, it’s not the same reactions from other fanbases, specifically Nicki Minaj and Tory Lanez’s fans, who have been trolling her for having bots instead of real fans, citing her own lyrics on “Hiss”.

Megan Thee Stallion’s album “MEGAN” loses 30 million streams on Spotify due to alleged botting. pic.twitter.com/hxpxcWfKu7

— No Jumper (@nojumper) July 6, 2024

“Says she is “Independent” while getting all the benefits that come along with her affiliations,” someone commented. “Independent artists aren’t buying 30M streams.” “She used the wrong website,” another person wrote.

“And it’s probably still more bot streams they didn’t take out. Imagine Apple Music’s ones aren’t filtered,” a third person penned. “This is embarrassing and it ain’t even me,” someone else added.

Amid the bot controversy, Megan’s album landed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart with around 64K in first-week sales. This has has caused a field day on social media by the Barbz, who are now dragging Meg for the 64K sales, considering that Nicki’s Pink Friday 2 sold almost four times that in its first week.

“One thing about the Barbz — we will always have the last laugh,” a Nicki fan commented. “Real flop girl shit,” another user added, trolling.

The “Hottie” rapper is yet to address the botting allegations. She seems unfazed by the reports as she recently took to Instagram to promote the European leg of her “Hot Girl Summer” tour alongside Ms Banks.

Billboard 200: #3(new) Megan (@theestallion), MEGAN 64,000 [62.67 million on-demand streams | 16,000 pure sales].

— chart data (@chartdata) July 7, 2024