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Music News: 'Born This Way' opens with 1.1 million in the US
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Thanks for the shoutout, boo.
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Congrats to Gaga, my two faves have the highest debut by a female in US 
I'm kinda worried about her drop in sales for next week, around 70% 
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Originally posted by Megan3474
Her and Taylor both managed to do 1+mill in this digital age!! Impressive! Althoughh, I don't think Taylors album had to be sold for .99cents to do this, but still impressive.
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Well actually it was $3.99 on Amazon MP3 for the full week (and they had a coupon code for $3 off--- so it was 0.99) And the physical cd was also discounted to $8 on Amazon.
http://moneysavingqueen.com/October-...Speak-Now-399/
http://bucktownbargains.com/taylor-s...lbum-for-3-99/
But everyone will continue to ignore this :-\
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Did i miss the britney stans meltdown? oh well, congrats to Gaga 
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She will be lucky to suffer a 70% drop next week.
First of all the album has already sold 1.1M copies. That's like an entire era's sales. It's only been out a week, but a lot of people already own it.
Also, she has a rabid fanbase who rushed out the first week. Not to mention the hype.
She doesn't have any promo lined up this week.
And of course there will be no Amazon discount.
I think a drop of 80-90% is in order.
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I'm so happy for her! Congrats gaga! You deserved it!! 
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
She will be lucky to suffer a 70% drop next week.
First of all the album has already sold 1.1M copies. That's like an entire era's sales. It's only been out a week, but a lot of people already own it.
Also, she has a rabid fanbase who rushed out the first week. Not to mention the hype.
She doesn't have any promo lined up this week.
And of course there will be no Amazon discount.
I think drop of 80-90% is in order.
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I agree,
I see a 90% drop
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Originally posted by Oshiish
I agree,
I see a 90% drop
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Hopefully she won't, I don't want Adele to get #1 so soon! 
I'm hoping for a 70-80% drop
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
She will be lucky to suffer a 70% drop next week.
First of all the album has already sold 1.1M copies. That's like an entire era's sales. It's only been out a week, but a lot of people already own it.
Also, she has a rabid fanbase who rushed out the first week. Not to mention the hype.
She doesn't have any promo lined up this week.
And of course there will be no Amazon discount.
I think drop of 80-90% is in order.
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A 90% drop would mean she could possibly lose the #1, I don't see that happening.
I don't think she'll do more than 250k though.
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Well, 460k came from the Amazon 99c deal. Her sales will be frontloaded as I been saying.
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Congrats to Gaga! ! Truly astounding!
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Well, 460k came from the Amazon 99c deal. Her sales will be frontloaded as I been saying.
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Did you find a sales breakdown?
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Did you find a breakdown?
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LADY'S GAGANTIC!
Brad Paisley, Glee, Maybach, NKOTBSB, Foster the People Debut Top 10
May 31, 2011
After one of the most spectacular release rollouts in the history of the record business, Interscope artist Lady Gaga’s Born This Way enters the HITS Album Sales chart at #1, with a cool 1.1 million in sales.
That’s the highest total since 50 Cent moved 1.14 million of Massacre in 2005. Taylor Swift’s Speak Now sold 1.044 million in its first week last October. Counting Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter, which sold 1.005 million in June 2008, UMG has the last four million selling debuts.
Almost 650k of those sales were in digital form, with 460k coming via Amazon’s precedent-shattering two-day 99 cents promotion.
Arista Nashville’s Brad Paisley, with This Is Country Music, is the next highest debut, bowing at #2 with 154k, while Columbia’s Glee: The Music Vol. 6 (#4) and MMG/Warner Bros.’ Maybach Music Group Presents…(#5) are the other Top 5 debuts, sandwiching XL/Columbia’s still-potent Adele (#3), which will soar past double-platinum next week.
Other Top 10 newcomers include Columbia/Jive/Legacy’s NKOTBSB (#7) and Startime/Columbia’s Foster the People (#9), alongside holdovers Capitol/EMI’s Now 38 (#6), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#8, +17%) and Glassnote’s Mumford & Sons (#10), closing in on 1.5 million.
That gives Steve Barnett’s Team Columbia four of the Top 10.
The rest of the new chart entries include 19 Recordings’ American Idol winner Scotty McCreery (#11), Nomota’s Wal-Mart exclusive Journey (#16), 19 Recordings’ Lauren Alaina (#39) and Def Jam/IDJ’s Jadakiss (#41), while RCA Nashville’s Sara Evans is a re-entry (#45).
Big Machine’s Rascal Flatts (#45-25, +54%) is the week’s biggest double-digit gainer, followed by Lady Gaga’s Fame (#33-15, +45%), Atlantic’s Zac Brown Band (#31-22, +26%), Def Jam/IDJ’s Rihanna (#36-32, +12%) and Universal Republic Nashville’s The Band Perry (#41-38, +10%).
Hitting retail this week are Atlantic’s Death Cab for Cutie, Monkeywrench/Universal Republic’s Eddie Vedder, ATO’s My Morning Jacket and Borstal Beat’s Flogging Molly.
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/....cgi?news08557
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Congrats, Gaga.
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I'm still cautious to believe this. I want to see a more in-depth breakdown, because I still wonder whether 460K were sold by Amazon, or specifically in just that digital sale. I know what it says, but it's still ambiguous to me.
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Are people still crying over the 99 cent deal? And already worrying about next week's sales?
Damn, Gaga got those haters real mad 
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Almost 650k of those sales were in digital form, with 460k coming via Amazon’s precedent-shattering two-day 99 cents promotion.
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WOW...so without the Amazon thing she probably does about 700k first week (give or take, who knows how many of those people would have still bought the album, I think 700k-800k is a fair guess..so way below Taylor territory, but in Eminem-Lil Wayne ballpark...not bad, but I don't know why her stans can't admit how much the sales gimmick helped.
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