Album sales

Alejandro Valdez · April 30, 2026

Is there a way to count the pre-realeased tracks plays, to the album after it was released, for example my Smile album has 4k plays, but it doesnt add the pre-realeased plays from Never Really Over, Daisies, Harleys In Hawaii etc. With those the album goes up to 6k. It causes it to be undercetified cause it loses some sales from the pre-realeased tracks.

Sir_LePaul · April 30, 2026

Alejandro Valdez wrote:

Is there a way to count the pre-realeased tracks plays, to the album after it was released, for example my Smile album has 4k plays, but it doesnt add the pre-realeased plays from Never Really Over, Daisies, Harleys In Hawaii etc. With those the album goes up to 6k. It causes it to be undercetified cause it loses some sales from the pre-realeased tracks.

I usually fix this issue on Last.FM (you need Premium) by editing (adding) the pre-released songs to the main album once it is released. Caution, if the pre-released songs album charted on your album charts first, then this will affect the debut of the main album. This can be a problem if you are a user that cares deeply about debut status of albums.

I try to avoid having Singles (pre-released stand alone songs) enter my Album charts for this reason.

Alejandro Valdez · May 1, 2026

I do this, but the before sales dont add up. so I do the math outside the app so I can see the real sales lol, there are some albums like future nostalgia that have the title track so the chart performance gets messy, and im too lazy to go one by one so that I can change the single stats

chernobyldenier · May 2, 2026

Alejandro Valdez wrote:

I do this, but the before sales dont add up. so I do the math outside the app so I can see the real sales lol, there are some albums like future nostalgia that have the title track so the chart performance gets messy, and im too lazy to go one by one so that I can change the single stats

I don't think right now there's an easy way to do it. It'd be cool of there was a feature where we could mark a track as a pre-release so that any data prior to the first time the album is released won't show up on charts. IDK if that's possible....