People actually paid money to get Born This Way to platinum and didn't just get it for free.
ANTI will never cross 1 million pure album sales in the United States to begin with.
People actually paid money for Born This Way, and even without the Amazon downloads (which Amazon paid full price for and was a promotion for Amazon Prime Music) Born This Way still sold 1.6 million copies first week globally.
ANTI - it wouldn't have passed 1m with paid downloads, BTW certainly would have seeing as it's sold 2.4M to date in the US and it was only 300k copies that were sold for $99c - more than infinity times Anti's price.
Especially seeing as without the 99c deal, Born This Way would still be a #1 + multi-platinum certified album, Anti would not be.
There is no "*" on ANTI. Billboard and Nielsen didn't count the downloads Samsung paid for as sales. Born This Way, on the other hand, had its less than $1 copies counted in its first week sales and is the reason for the rule change. Billboard =/= RIAA
People actually paid money to get Born This Way to platinum and didn't just get it for free.
ANTI will never cross 1 million pure album sales in the United States to begin with.