 Since the album was released digitally a week ahead of the physical copy, Interscope records requested that "Billboard" and Nielsen SoundScan uphold a rule instituted in 2008 where a label may ask Nielsen SoundScan to hold the digital sales count of an album for up to one week, and for "Billboard" to delay charting that album, when a leak results in a digital album beating its physical counterpart to brick and mortar stores.50 Cent told MTV that he named the album "Before I Self Destruct" because "it could potentially happen.