This is the same thing that happened with Britney's Oops!... I Did It Again era right? Jive wanted the album sales more so they didn't put out Oops!... there in the market to be purchased separately as a single which lead to the song's #9 peak?

Death at it being back. Glad I didn't comment on this mess.

Smart move, they want the album sales.

Let's see if this does anything for the so-so album sales

Not them thinking people care that much about his music catalogue to buy the entire album for one song. What a ****ing mistake on their behalf!

Some of you are such cornballs.

His label knows what's right for him, and whether or not it shows strong results doesn't mean his label shouldn't at least try. Most of your favorites wouldn't be anywhere without 8-10 singles per era.

Glamorous all over again, except that it won't tumble down the charts like Glamorous did.

The album jumped to #2, so it's clearly helping.

It will tumble down the iTunes chart, if they don't cancel the "album only".

Flopp
Act is coming for the #1 though with their #25 cover.

ATRLers, their conspiracy theories/predictions proved wrong again.

Not really. With his high airplay and high streaming, he would only need to sell a minimal amount of digital copies to stay at #1. Glamorous tumbled down because her airplay was quite weak in comparison to the #1s at that time.

People do buy from Amazon and Google Play as well

They'll probably put it back on normal status on Monday, in time for the beginning of sales tracking for next week's chart.

It happened constantly in the 90s, that's one reason why album sales were so high, you either bought the entire album or didn't get to own the song you were enjoying on Radio.

I am talking only about iTunes chart though, not BB or Amazon.

Yeah, if it was deliberate they didn't do it for other singles to succeed but to push his album sales.

That song is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO overrated.

People need to calm down.

It's back as album-only and still #1 http://kworb.net/pop/

It's back! But you can only get it if you buy the album...