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Alleged phone calls made from jail by Young Thug<\/a> have been leaked in recent days, as the YSL honcho faces snitching allegations stemming from a 2015 conversation with authorities surrounding a Lil Wayne tour bus shooting. <\/a><\/p>\n Thugger continues to distance himself from Gunna,<\/a> who was released nearly two years before Thug after reaching an Alford plea deal<\/a> in the YSL RICO case in December 2022, as Thug believes his mentee <\/a>snitched on him.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n One recent alleged jail phone call<\/a> involving Thug found him claiming that he paid $50,000 for streams to help Gunna\u2019s DS4EVER<\/em> album debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 <\/a>over The Weeknd\u2019s<\/a> Dawn FM<\/em> in 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cLike, the No. 1 album you just had right now, I paid for you to have the No. 1 album,\u201d he said. \u201dYou didn\u2019t honestly earn a No. 1 album over The Weeknd, my boy. I paid for that sh\u2013. I never said anything to him. I never told him that.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cWe just got the plug on that. You never earned a No. 1 album. I spent 50 extra grand buying motherf\u2014ing streams for you.\u201d<\/p>\n Gunna earned his second No. 1 album<\/a> atop the Billboard 200<\/a> in January 2022 in a tight race against The Weeknd. DS4EVER<\/em> launched with 150,300 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 13, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n The album\u2019s first-week sales figure was nearly entirely comprised of streaming. SEA units comprised 144,600 (equaling 193.5 million on-demand official streams), while album sales held 4,700 and TEA units comprised 1,000.<\/p>\n It was also the most-streamed album that week and Gunna added a Drake<\/a> collaboration titled \u201cP Power\u201d to the project\u2019s track list on the final tracking day. DS4EVER<\/em> was on sale for $7.99 on the iTunes store and could be purchased digitally on his website for $4.<\/p>\n As for The Weeknd, Dawn FM <\/em>bowed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200<\/a> with 148,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 13, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n Of the total, SEA units made up 131,300 (equaling 173.04 million on-demand official streams of the album\u2019s songs), while album sales bested Gunna\u2019s total with 14,800 and TEA units comprised 1,900.<\/p>\n Billboard<\/em> has reached out to Luminate for comment.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the text we include in our weekly story announcing the top 10 of the Billboard 200 that explains Luminate\u2019s review process: Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alleged phone calls made from jail by Young Thug have been leaked in recent days, as the YSL honcho faces snitching allegations stemming from a 2015 conversation with authorities surrounding a Lil Wayne tour bus shooting. 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