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Originally posted by Meowster
Will a 1.99 discount count?
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"Unit sales for albums priced below $3.49 during their first four weeks of release will not be eligible for inclusion on the Billboard album charts and will not count towards sales data presented by Nielsen SoundScan. The rule also applies to reissued titles."
So if they randomly discounted it to 99cents in it's 12th week it would count, but it wouldn't really pick up sells obviously. It also wouldn't count if say, Katy re-released Teenage Dream and discounted it to 99cents that week purposely, that's what they mean for reissued albums.