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Originally posted by KRL
I don't get it, Born this way had almost the same pop bars but it did that in 3 days. I expected like 800k for Taylor since she has a full week
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There are some subtleties. "Home" might be selling way more than Colbie Caillat's "I Do" (the #2 when Born This Way was released) was per minute for the week, and WANEGBT might have an equally large or even larger lead, but Gaga's single was released on the weekend, when sales are higher, so the gap could translate to something more meaningful.
Say "Home" is selling 200,000 this week and "I Do" sold 150,000 its debut week.
Average sales per 24 hours of Home = 28,570
Average sales per 24 hours of I Do = 21,420
Let's assume both songs have a 1.000 to 0.150 lead.
Average sales per 24 hours of WANEGBT 190,561
Average sales per 24 hours of BTW 142,871
Now, let's assume 60% of the sales take place Fri-Sat.
So 150,000*.7 = 90,000
90,000/3 = 30,000 sales per day for I Do
So Born This Way's daily sales would be 200,100
They also could be expecting WANEGBT to fall off hard, based off of the less than full-week frame debut sales of "Mine". Also, Gaga performed the song at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, which bolstered the song's last minute sales.