for those who keep saying Prince is cheating by having the cd's from the concert count toward sales keep in mind as it was stated in yesterdays USA Today the sales from NPGMC werent counted toward album sales..now i dont know how many he sold from the website but 1 article said membership is around 400,000 people so there were a good number of copies sold via his website and also remember all those albums that werent counted that he gave away at concerts before April 20th..so next time some of you guys get all worked up about what is counted just remember what wasn't

Mazerati said:

yea, but the bottom line is he'd be in the 30's this week and not top 10 if it wasn't for concert sales. hey, i'm all for it and think it was great the way he found a way to be the one and only to beat the system, but realistically, this is helping him tremendously (better placement in stores, more industry hype, more interest, more press)

The next album should be a killer released only to stores with singles/videos already in place - then we would see who da man is!

LAProducer said:

And if he had not distributed at concerts and had downloads, he would have been in the "retail" top ten longer. This argument is circular.

uhh ok

gottagottagotta said:

THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. PRINCE IS ABOUT MONEY NOT ABOUT SALES CHARTS. Haven't you figured that out yet? Any of you? He and Londell are money grubbing bastards. He is happy and rich. He'll never have another number one unless he does 7 concerts in a row.

I remeber i read on some indutry trade magazine, when the album was released on NPGMC it set some kinda record in its first week alone the sales were in 6 figures that mean maybe 20-30k albums got downloaded just in the first week!! I am sure maybe another 100k albums might have be downlaoded
making a profit in 90% range!!