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Originally posted by KORDEI
right but the album comes out in 3 months so we can worry about that a little later. What's the plan for the single if it's an instant grat? Wouldn't the sales be affected bc ppl will pre-order the album and get the song for free rather than purchasing the one song beforehand?
EDIT: Thanks I'mRihannaFan for the reassurance.... cause...  |
I thought how it works was that all the downloads are counted up until the release week when the downloads are taken off due to people doing the "complete my album" on iTunes. So if the song sells 35k copies from people buying the song and 20k from pre-orders the song would have 55k sales for that week according to Soundscan/Billboard.
However, once release week comes and people start completing their albums; instead of counting as 15/16 seperate track sales, Billboard sees it as one album sale. When this happens each download of the song (Work From Home or any other track released pre-release) counts as a negative download. E.g. The sales of Applause.
Week 9: 100,000 (#8)
Week 10: 89,000 (#9)
Week 11: 80,000 (#7)
Week 12: 77,000 (#10)
Week 13: 4,000 (#10) [Album release week]
So, it doesn't really affect much. It helps the song if anything due to the exposure.
(at least that's how i've always interpreted this rule but if any chart people want to clock feel free).
