It's fair tho. You guys don't even remember that the same thing happened with Born This Way they only counted the Amazon sales, not those albums that came in some cellphones I don't remember right now.
This isn't the end of the story, however. Just because the Billboard 200 has been based purely on sales of an album for the entirety of the life of the chart doesn't mean it must always remain so. Today I pay to listen to most of my albums on a subscription streaming service. Should those count in some way on our albums chart?
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In the coming weeks, we'll talk through highly nuanced questions about our album charts with top managers, retailers, brands, publishers, label executives and others, just as we have with recent chart changes. These discussions may well lead to some changes to our charting rules -- or they may not. It's a process that plays out here at Billboard all the time -- the very same one that led to the tweaks allowing streaming on the Hot 100.
They're thinking of adding streaming to the billboard 200.
Only those of Gagas albums that amazon bought were counted that were actually bought by consumers - it's not like amazon had bought a few hundred thousands of albums and those were counted before actually being sold.
that's the difference.
Gaga literally did the same thing, though. The amazon sale was independent of her label, but label made an arrangement for them to be given away with phones the first week like Jay-Z and they weren't counted towards sales.
Just because the Billboard 200 has been based purely on sales of an album for the entirety of the life of the chart doesn't mean it must always remain so. Today I pay to listen to most of my albums on a subscription streaming service. Should those count in some way on our albums chart?
I wonder how they'll end up handling streaming for albums charts.
OK he has been fairly clocked. It's not 1 million copies sold first week unless people BUY them. And LOL at the desperation to join the league of 1-million-first-week-sellers. He ain't joining Whitney, Britney, Norah, Gaga, Taylor (Speak Now) and Taylor (Red).
If this was counted imagine all the future mess. Everyone would try and make these kinds of deals because they would have a guaranteed platinum album right out the gate. I think they made the right decision.
The costumers didn't pay for that thought. It's like asking Soundscan to count the albums shipped to the retailers even when the costumers haven't bought the album.
they only counted the Amazon sales, not those albums that came in some cellphones I don't remember right now.
yeah, if you pay +$100 you'll get the album. You do the math between MDNA and Magna Carta's deals.
