True. That said, the old charts could be manipulated as well; I have fond memories as a teen going to Rounder to buy special/signed editions of albums as this was a shop which counted towards the charts.
I don’t think it’s totally meaningless, but they maybe need to adjust how they derive sales figures from streams for cases like this. The UK charts have a weighting system for album tracks to try and counter it….but even that isn’t fool proof for mega stars as Ed Sheeran did similar to Swift a...