Lady Gaga's 1.1 million-selling debut for Born This Way in May 2011. But that album, of course, included more than 400k in 99-cent sales from Amazon MP3.
SWIFTLESS STREAMS: With a one-week digital iTunes exclusive, Taylor Swift as the latest superstar to hold back her new release, Red, from Amazon MP3, perhaps leery of the same steep discount the retailer gave to Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (and subsequent ineligibility on some charts). Swift is also unavailable on streaming services Spotify, Rhapsody, Deezer and Rdio, with the exception of an online listening party at Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio yesterday. That has increased the debate on whether Spotify helps or hurts album sales, with notable holdouts like Coldplay, Adele, The Black Keys and deadmau5. While some thought Mumford & Sons profited from being on the service, others insist it may well have prevented the album from selling even more. (10/23p)
Taylor Swift's Red now looks solidly north of 1 million in first-week sales, with a chance to possibly top Lady Gaga's 1.1 million-selling debut for Born This Way in May 2011. But that album, of course, included more than 400k in 99-cent sales from Amazon MP3. How about that, boys and girls?!
Corrina @cmt : "Red" isn't allowed to be sold on Amazon in (MP3 form only) but is available in album format due to the fact her label does not want a repeat of the shenanigans that happened to Gaga's album They don't want her "Red" compromised to be sold at the fire sale discount of 99c, so if Big Machine were to make it available to them, they could conceivably sell it at that price to garner advertisement and sales. Taylor and her label would still get the full amount of the sale, but Amazon would lose a lot of money in order to bring traffic to their site. Hence, that is the reason why no MP3 format will be brought to Amazon for sales.
The Lord isn't here for any ifs or buts.
lol poor Amazon. I bet they were ready to do that 99c trick again but the label told them to **** off