I'm pretty sure people had to pay for those copies, they weren't free.
I could be wrong, idk, too lazy to check it out.
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Many of Madonna's sales came through a bundle option, in which fans who purchased tickets for her upcoming tour received a code that could be redeemed for either a free physical CD or a free digital download of the album.
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Of MDNA's 359,000 sold, 185,000 came from the bundle/redemption code.
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The cost of MDNA wasn't bundled into the ticket price.
The fact that Janet's last studio album (26 years into her carreer) outsold Britney Jean (14 years in), Lotus (14 years in), Ultraviolence (2 years in), Me I Am Moo (24 years in)