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Originally posted by UnusualBoy
What I don't understand is why ppl think that Gaga will do 400k at best? She did 1.1m last year and even if you take the .99c deal out, she's still over 600k and it's not like the ones who bought it at .99c wouldn't buy it all the ways.
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There is no way to know how the .99 deal effected her sales. You could just as easily say that no one would have bought the album had it not been cheaper then the price of sales gum from the local corner store. Ultimately the deal did wonders for her sales and lead to an increase of over 40%. Had those not been counted there is no way she would have broken 1 million. She wouldn't have even broken 700k, and that is with all the promo that went into the era and the massive hype surrounding the project that started nearly 9 months before the album dropped.
I would say Gaga would be lucky to break 600k for Artpop, it's much more likely that she will open with around 400k if not a bit less. It would be more accurate to say that Gaga will probably only open with a third or fourth of Red's numbers. That is much more realistic then what this poll is asking.