A former music executive is accusing a unit of Universal Music Group and a promotion company of distorting the pop charts by persuading independent retailers to falsify album sales.
Veteran sales executive Theressa Rossi said in a lawsuit that she was induced to become the "front man" for a company hired by Universal's Def Jam label to inflate sales figures reported to the tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan, which compiles the industry's influential sales charts.
Independent retail stores were provided with free CDs of Def Jam artists by Giaco Entertainment, a New York marketing firm retained by the label, the suit said.
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