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Music News: Billboard Biz: 300,000 downloads of BTW from Amazon
Member Since: 3/4/2011
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Originally posted by Monster
I bought a 16$ one too. More than likely her stans did the same.
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Yup I did too,
All her die hard stans camped overnight at stores or bought it Midnight on Itunes. Shortly after Born This Way reached #1 in 22 countries Amazon announces this deal... 
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Member Since: 3/18/2011
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Originally posted by Oshiish
Yup I did too,
All her die hard stans camped overnight at stores or bought it Midnight on Itunes. Shortly after Born This Way reached #1 in 22 countries Amazon announces this deal... |
I did my pre-order with Target. 
And then I bought 1 copy via Amazon. Lol.
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
Amazon is the largest online retailer in the US. They can afford selling albums at a loss. The one area where Amazon lags is music downloads and based on the tremendous response to the $0.99 BTW deal (it's not easy to crash a site like Amazon), it was a smart move. And let's not pretend that albums like Teenage Dream and Animal/Cannibal didn't spend a good 50% of their chart runs on discount everywhere from iTunes to Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart. Even Femme Fatale's price has already been slashed. They weren't selling for $0.99, but their discounts actually came from the labels.
What Amazon did is going to keep happening from now on. And BTW is always going to be cited as the album that instigated the movement. Even though it's been done before, this is the first time the industry will sit up and take notice.
But Gaga fans pretending that the $0.99 discount didn't incentivize tonsof people to buy who wouldn't otherwise have bought are being equally delusional. Just wait until the second-week drop. Not that it matters all that much - most pop albums are lucky to go Platinum in their entire runs even with lots of hit singles and big promo. Sure, Rated R wasn't really helped by its week-long $0.99 Amazon discount, but it also didn't have the kind of BTW hype and buzz that would make non-fans interested in buying it at a bargain.
As for the massive BTW promo, are people really surprised? Of course Interscope is going to put their full weight behind this album. They didn't have to hire expensive writers for it - for better or worse, Lady Gaga wrote it and you can tell. They didn't hire expensive producers with diva demands for it - for better or worse, Garibay & Whiteshadow have had no prior hits. The whole album was recorded on the road while Gaga was making Interscope money not just from a $200M+ tour, but also from selling millions of singles, albums, Halloween costumes, merchandise, endorsements, etc. Just to put things in perspective: while BTW was being recorded, her tacky Remix album easily outsold Cannibal WW. Last week, TheWrap did a breakdown of Gaga's contribution to Insterscope - since 2008, she has made over $200M for them. It's not surprising that they're supporting her like this. The perks of not being a basic pop star.
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
This complaint has to be the funniest to me. Why is it a bad thing that people who weren't sure if they were going to buy it or not now have an incentive to buy it because of an attractive price.  |
That's the thing. GaGa stans have changed their stance on this Amazon thing 50 times, when it's always been there in plain sight. First, the $0.99 would have no effect (it's expected to help in six figures). Then, only GaGa stans are buying it (common sense shows people will buy something with an attractive price & the name attached).
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Member Since: 4/6/2011
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57 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Eh.....it's okay
Unlike many others, I had no problem buying the album today. I had debated it, because I haven't been amazingly impressed with the early music from it (Born This Way, Judas) and I just didn't know if I wanted to try it. But, for .99, I figured what the heck.
a review from amazon.
people just cant pass up a deal. 
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Member Since: 6/20/2010
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Originally posted by Oshiish
Yup I did too,
All her die hard stans camped overnight at stores or bought it Midnight on Itunes. Shortly after Born This Way reached #1 in 22 countries Amazon announces this deal... |
I ended up spending €82 and $16 on 4 physical copies and 1 digital copy. 
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Member Since: 3/4/2011
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Originally posted by uclaboi2003
57 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Eh.....it's okay
Unlike many others, I had no problem buying the album today. I had debated it, because I haven't been amazingly impressed with the early music from it (Born This Way, Judas) and I just didn't know if I wanted to try it. But, for .99, I figured what the heck.
a review from amazon.
people just cant pass up a deal. |
We all win 
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All the pressed souls in this thread
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Member Since: 6/10/2010
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
But Gaga fans pretending that the $0.99 discount didn't incentivize tonsof people to buy who wouldn't otherwise have bought are being equally delusional. Just wait until the second-week drop. Not that it matters all that much - most pop albums are lucky to go Platinum in their entire runs even with lots of hit singles and big promo. Sure, Rated R wasn't really helped by its week-long $0.99 Amazon discount, but it also didn't have the kind of BTW hype and buzz that would make non-fans interested in buying it at a bargain.
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I've been trying to tell them this.
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
That's the thing. GaGa stans have changed their stance on this Amazon thing 50 times, when it's always been there in plain sight. First, the $0.99 would have no effect (it's expected to help in six figures). Then, only GaGa stans are buying it (common sense shows people will buy something with an attractive price & the name attached).
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At first, the trends did support the idea that Amazon would not have an incredible affect. It was very clear based on Taylor and Kanye's sales figures that Amazon did not have a tremendous role in the success of their sales. After this article as you can see, that idea has changed.
Who said Gaga stans were the only ones buying from Amazon?
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Member Since: 7/12/2009
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
Just to put things in perspective: while BTW was being recorded, her tacky Remix album easily outsold Cannibal WW. Last week, TheWrap did a breakdown of Gaga's contribution to Insterscope - since 2008, she has made over $200M for them. It's not surprising that they're supporting her like this. The perks of not being a basic pop star.
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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Why didn't Rihanna's sales count toward soundscan?
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Member Since: 7/10/2010
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Day 1= Gaga sold atleast 300k form amazon
Day 1=Gaga atlest sold 400k form psychical copies
Day 1= That wuld already put her at 700k in one day 
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Member Since: 5/27/2010
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Originally posted by Ømega
Day 1= Gaga sold atleast 300k form amazon
Day 1=Gaga atlest sold 400k form psychical copies
Day 1= That wuld already put her at 700k in one day |
Who said 400k physical copies? I very much doubt that's true.
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Originally posted by Ømega
Day 1= Gaga sold atleast 300k form amazon
Day 1=Gaga atlest sold 400k form psychical copies
Day 1= That wuld already put her at 700k in one day |
We have to add also digital copies from iTunes
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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Originally posted by MrPeanut
Who said 400k physical copies? I very much doubt that's true.
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Wishful thinking. Omega is hoping for that million.
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Member Since: 7/10/2010
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Originally posted by MrPeanut
Who said 400k physical copies?
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Im jus guessing i dont think she would have sold much less than that on the first day
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Member Since: 7/10/2010
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Originally posted by Monster
Wishful thinking. Omega is hoping for that million.
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Always..
i think its possible
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
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Originally posted by Monster
At first, the trends did support the idea that Amazon would not have an incredible affect. It was very clear based on Taylor and Kanye's sales figures that Amazon did not have a tremendous role in the success of their sales. After this article as you can see, that idea has changed.
Who said Gaga stans were the only ones buying from Amazon?
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Trends sure, but IMO GaGa's on another level than even Taylor Swift and definitely GaGa. Her fan following is great, and the common music listener will buy her music just because how big she is. I understand the concept of comparing to previous Amazon deals, but I just think everyone would have the same idea when it's GaGa, the massive promotion, etc.
And there were a number of stans arguing that the Amazon sales are coming mainly from her fans who were planning to buy it anyway, before. Just another point they've come to sense about after jumping off the defense, LOL.
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Member Since: 5/27/2010
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
And there were a number of stans arguing that the Amazon sales are coming mainly from her fans who were planning to buy it anyway, before. Just another point they've come to sense about after jumping off the defense, LOL.
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For the record, I never said "mainly." I said there would inevitably be some re-distribution of sales, meaning you can't simply just wave away every sale that comes from Amazon now as if it wouldn't have occured otherwise. Simply subtracting the total of Amazon sales from her overall total and implying that that's what she "really would have sold" is misleading, to say the least.
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Member Since: 3/3/2011
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
That's the thing. GaGa stans have changed their stance on this Amazon thing 50 times, when it's always been there in plain sight. First, the $0.99 would have no effect (it's expected to help in six figures). Then, only GaGa stans are buying it (common sense shows people will buy something with an attractive price & the name attached).
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Of course it's going to have an effect! That's the point of Amazon putting it on sale. I hope people are purchasing it. I sure as hell bought the physical copies for myself, but I gifted some people the digital Amazon version who don't care about physical copies.
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