WSJ: 'Born This Way' first day digital estimate - 250-350K
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The Lady Gaga album, released by Interscope records, part of Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, is expected to be among the year's best sellers. The two online stores combined sold about 250,000 to 350,000 copies of the album in its first 24 hours, according to early estimates from a person in the music industry. Only a handful of albums this year have sold more than that in an entire week.
Initial estimates of CD sales are likely to become available Wednesday morning. Nielsen SoundScan won't deliver a full first-week tally for another week.
This is amazing, but this is making think her second week drop will be bigger than normal.
Eh, Taylor dropped hugely second week but still shot straight to 3 million copies. I'm not saying Gaga will do the same, but a huge drop off is expected with albums of this magnitude.
This is amazing, but this is making think her second week drop will be bigger than normal.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
She's got American Idol and the GMA concert coming which will inflate the first week even more. I don't wanna jinx it, but a million seems to be on lock at this point.
