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It looks like someone might be getting fired at Target. Despite pushing his album back to October 14th due to sample clearance issues, French Montana's new album MC4 has now leaked online due to a blunder made by the U.S. discount retailer.
Announcing the pushback a mere three days before the official August 19th release date, unfortunately for French physical copies had already been sent out to retailers and because of this an employee at Target - the location of which is unknown at this time but another Twitter user (@BAK_yn) found the album on shelves in Tulsa, OK - accidentally put the album out on sale Friday morning.
Due to some sample clearances that are still being worked out, I have to move the album release date. - FM #MC4
— French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) August 16, 2016
Twitter user Matt Albin happened to notice MC4 on the rack when he popped in to the store to purchase the new Tory Lanez album and quickly took to social media to report his unexpected discovery:
“I went to a Target to purchase Tory Lanez’ new album I Told You and sitting right next to the album was MC4,” Albin wrote on his site, Fashionably Early. “I went to the self-checkout and had to receive customer assistance. The employee that came to fix the issue knew the album was pushed back and didn’t allow me to purchase it. After the fact, I contacted another Target employee that I know and he revealed that it is possible to purchase the album despite the pushback. It just depends on the employee you are dealing with.”
Featuring Drake, Jeezy, A$AP Rocky, Kodak Black, Miguel, Kanye West, Nas, Beanie Sigel, Jadakiss, Styles P, Max B, and a posthumes verse from Chinx, it is unknown how this will affect MC4's sales or whether or not Epic Records will release the album early digitally and then release a different version of the album on the revised October 14th date.
