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Originally posted by Almighty Gaga
I'm quite confused 
LaM is up for pre-order in the UK as a stand alone single now, understable considering that's the strategy everyone uses in the UK now. They'll probably (they should) delete the single version the week the album is out and let the album version the one charting to boost the album sales.
What I'm not getting is why AATB is still a standalone single and the version on the album isn't available yet. It could have boosted the pre-order a lot. So far, the pre-order didn't even enter the top 200 on iTunes yet. |
I know I'm super late with this reply but hey ho
Basically, the UK chart rule is that only one song per album can be counted as an instant grat. If LAM is not chosen as that one instant grat, it will mean that all the sales of the song when the album is still up for pre-order but the song is released (assuming they do that which they may not
) won't count and will be, basically, wasted sales. I guess the issue is offsetting the benefit of having AATB promote the album and allowing LAM a better chart position due to the instant grat rule configuration. I have no idea if this makes any sense because it's super complicated to explain
