No, she's not, she's been planning the app as an artistic medium for well over a year and I doubt she planned far enough in advance to care about another broken record.

Yes. It may count but it won't stop the criticism and jokes that come with it. I hope it is appropriately priced and not at the measly $3.49 required to chart. She is better than that and doesn't need to sell her work so cheaply to get it to the masses.

I also hope this doesn't create a horrible pattern with other artist who will begin to abuse this formula. Yes, it's a cute idea, but it isn't something I can say I would enjoy to become the standard.

$13 for album
$4 app !
and yes the app will count toward a sale !

Yes, they were. And she only did ~8,000 copies from Papa John's so it wasn't anything huge, really. Plus, if you purchased the album that way, you still had to pay $13 for the album.

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Anyway, I say it most likely will.

Of course it is. People are getting an album for less than $5 on the first week of its release. That will discredit whatever numbers it'll be able to shift.

To some degree, yes, but not entirely. People are still paying for the product at that price.

If the app is going to be like Björk's app for Biophilia, then it will cost as much as the album so I don't see why it wouldn't count

Maybe Ke$ha should have tried harder then.


Also, just so y'all know, buying music through phones is the leading way to download digital music in Japan, the top grossing music industry in the world.

What Gaga is doing is smart. Y'all will stay upset.