Why would they fact check their own business?
If you running an ice cream shop and you know how much you have sold, are you going to go the news paper to see how much they have you selling?
If the news paper has you selling 100 ice creams in a month, and it's been printed out there for YEARS, you don't think someone has told you this information? You don't think with all your staff and associates that work for your ice cream shop, that this information about you selling only 100 ice cream cones hasn't made it back to you? The Newspaper tracks all ice cream sells and you know about it
This news paper tells you that you that you only sold 100 ice cream cones, but you put out that you sold 2,000, and you know that this newspaper is the so call standard for ice cream, but yet you and your team, network, get on TV and say you have sold 2,000 ice creams in 2 days?? when the newspaper has you selling on 10 ice cream in the first week?
You saying P and his team, artists, handlers, lawyers, can't go on RIAA and see their numbers?