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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
But what about customer intent? These crazy monsters can afford now buy like another 10 copies to gift. The chart will be inflated. Fact.
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This!!!
I don't have any problem with GaGa selling 1 million the first week because she deserves it (I love her music and the album).
But selling around 1,5 million thanks to this discount will make her sales look really inflated because now her fans can buy multiples copies and gift them. I mean the full album is cheaper than 1 song on itunes for god's sake. Probably around 700k copies will be only from Amazon alone since she sold 300k only on Amazon the first day and it's now it's discounted again a day after her American Idol promo. I don't know but this sounds really fishy to be honest