Found a post on UKMIX which pretty much sums up perfectly all the controversy around this album release:
Quote:
The reason amazon won't lower the price for most acts is because, to justify having 3 million dollar losses, you need to be sure the act can attract unprecedent amount of interest and anticipation. There's no pop act who can attract this level of hysteria currently.
Even without Amazon, the album would have sold AT LEAST 800k (and we all know many of those who bought at Amazon would probably buy at full price if the promo wasn't available) and first week numbers from all over the world are smashing and there was no 99c promo anywhere else.
Furthermore, people who think Gaga's management made some kind of deal with Amazon are truly delusional. I mean, not only have Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times and a bunch of other reliable vehicles reported that it didn't, Interscope would need to be extremely stupid to make a deal with Amazon MP3 'cause that would seriously jeopardize their relationship with Apple's iTunes. And iTunes dominates the digital market which makes Interscope heavily dependent on them.
Face it: the album sold at least 800k AT FULL PRICE, plenty of people who bought at 99c WOULD HAVE BOUGHT AT FULL PRICE ANYWAY (and many probably wouldn't but that's besides the point), her record label HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE 99C PROMO, AMAZON WAS USING GAGA TO PROMOTE THEIR NEW CLOUD SERVICE, NOT VICE-VERSA and, most importantly, the album is having amazing first week sales pretty much everywhere. So yeah, stop trying so hard to find excuses, it just make you guys look extremely bitter.
Found a post on UKMIX which pretty much sums up perfectly all the controversy around this album release:
Quote:
The reason amazon won't lower the price for most acts is because, to justify having 3 million dollar losses, you need to be sure the act can attract unprecedent amount of interest and anticipation. There's no pop act who can attract this level of hysteria currently.
Even without Amazon, the album would have sold AT LEAST 800k (and we all know many of those who bought at Amazon would probably buy at full price if the promo wasn't available) and first week numbers from all over the world are smashing and there was no 99c promo anywhere else.
Furthermore, people who think Gaga's management made some kind of deal with Amazon are truly delusional. I mean, not only have Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times and a bunch of other reliable vehicles reported that it didn't, Interscope would need to be extremely stupid to make a deal with Amazon MP3 'cause that would seriously jeopardize their relationship with Apple's iTunes. And iTunes dominates the digital market which makes Interscope heavily dependent on them.
Face it: the album sold at least 800k AT FULL PRICE, plenty of people who bought at 99c WOULD HAVE BOUGHT AT FULL PRICE ANYWAY (and many probably wouldn't but that's besides the point), her record label HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE 99C PROMO, AMAZON WAS USING GAGA TO PROMOTE THEIR NEW CLOUD SERVICE, NOT VICE-VERSA and, most importantly, the album is having amazing first week sales pretty much everywhere. So yeah, stop trying so hard to find excuses, it just make you guys look extremely bitter.
YAS! Finally someone sensible. The Jazz Christmas album idea is a great one. She sounds amazing when she sings Jazz, like you said on twitter, her voice is suited for it. Orange Colored Sky >>>>>>> your fav. It's just that simple. It will pull in a totally new audience to Gaga, and give her other album more sales, and we all know her + her label want that.
i cant wait for that jazz album. thats gonna be sooo amazing. gaga singing orange coloured sky is so good. she should sing jazz more often, and i dont even like jazz lol.
