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Originally posted by MusicTalker
If this already took effect, why are Kelly Clarkson's pre-order tracks still shooting up to the Top 10 of ITUNES?
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From what I get from this, it's only for the Albums charts. The single chart is still a mess (and should be changed already since Nielsen doesn't even use the pre-order track sales anymore.)
And for the most part (correct me if wrong) but it's saying that they would count pre-order sales twice i.e. (let's say an album gets 20k pre-orders before it's release date and ranks at #2 before release, it's not gonna automatically go #1 at midnight Tuesday anymore based on large pre-order sales.) The pre-order sale will count for charting purposes only at the time the person makes the pre-order, but once the album is released, the only numbers that will be reflected in the chart for an album will only be that day's performance.