Apparently, the albums that Best Buy gives away with cell phone sales will be counted in Soundscan totals.

Prince did something similar with the Musicology Tour and adding a CD to the cost of a ticket. soundscan had to count them everytime he did a show as record sales. Supposedly the rules were changed to prevent artists from actually bypassing selling the CD outright.

Doesn't surprise me.

More power to her. I was happy for Prince when he "gave away" the Musicology CD to fans during the Musicology Tour, because the marketing move boosted his profile in today's music marketplace. What makes Lady Gaga different is that she is a current music act, who used a similar strategy thus augmenting her sales by more traditonal selling methods like retail, etc.

*rumblerumblerumbleThrillerTheSequelrumblerumblerumble*

Desperate.

whether its preice or her, I don't think it should count..If someone actually went out and bought the album fair enough. but it just being thrown in inclusion of other things and being sold for free doesn't count

The Examiner is a joke. Have you read some of his other "articles"? Come on, guys - read with your brains.

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Do people really concern themselves with charts anymore and who didn't think it would debut @ #1.

If artists and labels can think of ways for things like this to count as album sales - with tickets etc.. good for them! Like you wouldn't if you were an artist. Of course you'd want it to count.

lazycrockett said:

Do people really concern themselves with charts anymore and who didn't think it would debut @ #1.

The Examiner is just a DUMB ASS SITE!

Japha11 said:

If artists and labels can think of ways for things like this to count as album sales - with tickets etc.. good for them! Like you wouldn't if you were an artist. Of course you'd want it to count.

that's a very steryotypical statement, I'd definately only want albums to be sold off the base of it actually selling, anything else would dillute it

Timmy84 said:

lazycrockett said:

Do people really concern themselves with charts anymore and who didn't think it would debut @ #1.

The Examiner is just a DUMB ASS SITE!

Yeah i try to stay away from anything like that, the whole thing is crazy anyway, the thing with PRINCE was not even about manipulating, it was not against the rules, after he did it however, it was, Overall i dont think that it should count unless there is an actual charge, i mean people bitched because Mariah was "manipulating" by selling the "Loverboy" single for 49 cents, i dont think a giveaway can count or at least should, but really like its been said, its going to debut at number one, she is going to sell more than Thriller, so why is there an issue about a dead business anyway?

She's trying to break Britney's first week sales record.

1.3 million is a hard number to topple though.

musicjunky318 said:

She's trying to break Britney's first week sales record.

1.3 million is a hard number to topple though.

I think she's going for the Eminem record (1.76 million).

Timmy84 said:

musicjunky318 said:

She's trying to break Britney's first week sales record.

1.3 million is a hard number to topple though.

I think she's going for the Eminem record (1.76 million).

No way she could reach that.

musicjunky318 said:

Timmy84 said:

I think she's going for the Eminem record (1.76 million).

No way she could reach that.

She sure is trying lmao but if she sells just above 450K, then that's good.

Timmy84 said:

musicjunky318 said:

No way she could reach that.

She sure is trying lmao but if she sells just above 450K, then that's good.

But even with that, looking at Eminems number of 1.76 for a week or whatever, the second Backstreet Boys album in 2000 sold 9.92 million copies in that year alone, i mean people need to realize that the day and age of gold and platnum are GONE, i mean there most likely is not ever going to be an album that sells 10 million ever again, and back then it was happening once twice a year at least

lastdecember said:

Timmy84 said:

She sure is trying lmao but if she sells just above 450K, then that's good.

But even with that, looking at Eminems number of 1.76 for a week or whatever, the second Backstreet Boys album in 2000 sold 9.92 million copies in that year alone, i mean people need to realize that the day and age of gold and platnum are GONE, i mean there most likely is not ever going to be an album that sells 10 million ever again, and back then it was happening once twice a year at least

But The Fame sold 12 million.

Spinlight said:

lastdecember said:

But even with that, looking at Eminems number of 1.76 for a week or whatever, the second Backstreet Boys album in 2000 sold 9.92 million copies in that year alone, i mean people need to realize that the day and age of gold and platnum are GONE, i mean there most likely is not ever going to be an album that sells 10 million ever again, and back then it was happening once twice a year at least

But The Fame sold 12 million.

worldwide, not in america, nothing is even coming close in america

Spinlight said:

lastdecember said:

But even with that, looking at Eminems number of 1.76 for a week or whatever, the second Backstreet Boys album in 2000 sold 9.92 million copies in that year alone, i mean people need to realize that the day and age of gold and platnum are GONE, i mean there most likely is not ever going to be an album that sells 10 million ever again, and back then it was happening once twice a year at least

But The Fame sold 12 million.

In total.

It only did three million in the states but I imagine that's the biggest sales for that album. I think "The Fame Monster" sold about two million here and since it wasn't a full-fledged album, it was counted to sales of "The Fame" in certain European countries.

I think even if none of this was going on Lady would still have big numbers, i mean i think just someone's name and there number of fans can get them enough sales. Look at Kanye when My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Came Out. He didn't even promote it that much, not nearly as much as Graduation and he leaked the album early to but it still managed to sale over 500,000 copies anyway.