I remember those. It used to be pages towards the middle or the back of most music magazines, and you could get like 9 CDs for $9.99. I remember when I used to ask my mom to call the number on those pages (the pages were rougher than the other magazine pages), and she would say no.
Yes, I ordered from there once when I get my very first CD player. I remember getting Mariah's #1s album, among others.
This is why I can't stand when people not old enough to get in to clubs try to speak on the musical climate of the late 90s. You literally have no idea what you're talking about
But Billboard does
So really. Either way not that big of a deal. Club sales or not.
It's been a rough week with "25" scalping her last record of relevance.
Yes, I had to do research. Everyone on this site kept saying "but WAIT, you're not including Club Sales" and nobody actually ever talked about what Club Sales were.
Nope. But a few weeks ago you came into the thread suggesting I do.
I don't do those sales! I'm not desperate like Army.
iHype is right, though. That's probably why Soundscan didn't count those album sales. People were mass-buying albums at once for a cheap ass price.
I never knew what those were until now.
They didn't pay to join Soundscan initially because they were established entities decades before Soundscan.
Soundscan didn't add Tower Records initially, either. Do their sales not count, too, despite being the second-biggest music retailer in the U.S. for years?
Why they chose this cover when they've had a couple other nice aesthetics from this era, I will never get. It gave a nice tribute to the Bedtime Stories cover I guess.
I remember when I used to ask my mom to call the number on those pages (the pages were rougher than the other magazine pages), and she would say no. 
It gave a nice tribute to the Bedtime Stories cover I guess.