I think cherry-picking destroys single and album sales. It also skews things when there is no option of buying a single (only downloading from the album). As a Gaga fan, there is no way for me to support the song on iTunes, as I have already bought the album and cannot buy it again. If I buy the song and later want the album, it will be a negative sale, thus reducing the single sales.
I reckon an artist should try releasing all singles and promo singles separately from the album, and making all album tracks 'Album Only'.
They were calculating her sales each week (Official Charts) and then subtracted it all out when the album dropped which is annoying AF. Its def nearing 150K-200K already
Really?
I thought more of 40-50k but I didn't really know how to estimate in this case..
Wait, sorry, you're right. I was looking at my figures and the 80k was for the first week on the chart and the pre-first-week-sales. So 80-30 = 50k roughly.
I still don't get the logic of not counting those sales at all. I mean even if they want to prevent songs from charting based on albums pre-orders, at least add the sales of people that didn't "complete my album" to the total after the album is released
Wait, sorry, you're right. I was looking at my figures and the 80k was for the first week on the chart and the pre-first-week-sales. So 80-30 = 50k roughly.
The song was released in the UK 3 weeks before the album officially dropped. So it sold 80k only in its first week or in its first 3 weeks combined?
You need to really get some fresh air. I hope you realize a day on Kworb doesnt indicate a single's chart run over the span of 4 months. Its been Top 20 steadily for weeks now.
I still don't get the logic of not counting those sales at all. I mean even if they want to prevent songs from charting based on albums pre-orders, at least add the sales of people that didn't "complete my album" to the total after the album is released
I don't see why they don't do what every other country does... Count the sales, then subtract them from the song total the week that the 'CMA' is used. That way it could go like:
