Starbucks should be counted, right? I remember hearing the copies of ARTPOP sold at "non-traditional retailers" like H&M didn't count last year, but Starbucks doesn't seem like that.
I don't think Starbucks started officially selling until this week? Might be wrong about that.
Starbucks should be counted, right? I remember hearing the copies of ARTPOP sold at "non-traditional retailers" like H&M didn't count last year, but Starbucks doesn't seem like that.
H&M used not to count, but they did it for ARTPOP either way.
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Included in the latter figure are a small number of "ARTPOP" albums sold via H&M clothing retailers: fewer than 1,000, according to sources. While H&M isn’t a traditional music retailer and hasn’t reported sales to SoundScan in the past, the chain did so this week.
they exceeded my expectations, I gotta be honest. congrats!
She better get every last copy reported to Soundscan 
I didn't expect this album to sell more than 70k first week.
. Even if they don't end up getting number one they did a lot better than we all thought they would.