DJ Khaled Threatens Lawsuit Against Billboard Over No. 1 Spot

American musician and producer, DJ Khaled, has reportedly threatened to sue Billboard over the listing of his new album on No. 1 spot.

The record label executive and producer’s feud with Billboard has to do with the allegation unfairly disqualifying over 100,000 sales of his new album “Father of Ashad” thereby denying him the No. 1 spot on the chart.

The singer’s 15-track release debuted second place on Billboard’s 200 Albums Chart as against Tyler the Creator’s critically-acclaimed album ‘Igor’ — which debuted at number one.

43-year-old Khaled had reportedly been told that an estimated 100,000 downloads of his album that were sold through a bundle of deals with an energy drink brand would count towards his Billboard stats.

According to Page Six, the American entertainment magazine backtracked his numbers and disqualified Khaled’s entire sales from the promotion-bundling deal, referring to them as “strange anomalies in the data” while the same move saw Tyler topple Billboard 200 with 165,000 equivalent album units.

The issue led Khaled’s lawyers to reportedly notify Silvio Pietroluongo, senior vice president of charts and data development at Billboard with a latter after learning of the development but “Billboard refused to budge”.

DJ Khaled posted a video of himself complaining on Instagram before deleting it, threatening at the end of it all that he is considering a lawsuit in the matter.