There is something very strange going on with André Hazes Jr. His album entered the Album Top 100 suspiciously high and then fell historically sharply. Is the folk singer a chart crook?
You don’t have to be a music expert to feel wet when André Hazes Jr.’s new album comes in fourth place in the Album Top 100. He must pray and beg people to please accept free tickets for his Ahoy concert and his album will immediately end up in the top five? This is not correct at all.
From 4 to 55
It is of course no secret that in the music world you can cheat a bit to boost your position in the charts, but what we are now seeing with André really beats everything. Shortly after the fourth leading position, André’s team went all out with an unsuccessful publicity offensive: the high ranking was highlighted in the AD and in Shownieuws.
Publicity moment is over and what do we see a week later? André does not drop two, three or four, or let’s say ten places in the Album Top 100, but 51 (!) places. So he drops from 4 to 55. That has never happened before and seems to be a painful exposure of his musical team.
Mega relapse
Rob Goossens speaks RTL Boulevard of a suspicious situation. “André really wanted to be at the top of his hype when he is back in Ahoy in November and that doesn’t seem to have completely worked out, because those tickets are not selling. Of course, that’s not really that surprising when you look at the fact that his music hasn’t really caught on yet.”
He continues: “And last week we thought for a moment that that was the case with the number 4 ranking. However, the decline is now so great that I thought for a moment: could he have bought some CDs himself last week or ordered streams from an illegal click farm?”
André denies
André’s team denies this. As if they would even consider for a second shouting that they had indeed scammed the place. “Yes, it doesn’t seem like it, because his management and producer says: ‘He just has fans who need such an album.’”
In other words: they claim that the that hardfans immediately bought a physical album en masse in the first week, and that is why André was ranked so highly. Rob: “Then I wonder: who are his fans? Were they ever in André Hazes’ father’s class? Because I only know people who start streaming on Spotify when an album is released.”
Auction tickets
The group of people who physically want to have a music album and can even play a CD is of course very small and that makes the story of André’s team quite unbelievable. In the meantime, his Ahoy tickets are being sold en masse via VakantieVeilingen.
Rob: “Ultimately, atmosphere is of course important, so I understand that he is like: we are dumping those cards. A full Ahoy is more fun than a half-full Ahoy in which everyone has paid the main price.”