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Chart Listings: Quality of Adele and Lady Gaga help growth of music sales
Member Since: 12/26/2011
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Originally posted by givemethatpop
It's an entire album, and for a whole week
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I just caught that. But how much did Ri's album sale in the 99cent discount time. And what I've been trying to say this entire time is that Gaga got a drastic boost to her total sales from her first week. 2m+ is a lot.
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Bitches're gettin' mad 'cause GaGa ***** your faves. Really, deal with it.
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Member Since: 3/3/2011
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What cracks me up about the amazon deal is that everyone acts like those buyers were all people who didn't care about her and wouldn't have purchased the album without the deal. I mean, come on, nobody even knows amazon sells music, and the only people that knew about the deal were Gaga fans and other obsessed online forum members. The fact is that most everyone who bought the album on amazon was probably a fan who would've purchased it anyway, or was using the opportunity to gift copies to people.
I gifted the album once during the Amazon deal, but later on, I gifted it again with a full price copy from Best Buy.
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Member Since: 4/10/2011
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Neither GaGa nor Interscope could control when Amazon discounted her album, not even for a full week.
You girls do the absolute most when it comes to that Amazon deal and it isn't necessary.
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Member Since: 12/26/2011
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Originally posted by itsAllen
Neither GaGa nor Interscope could control when Amazon discounted her album, not even for a full week.
You girls do the absolute most when it comes to that Amazon deal.
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Somebody hasn't been reading the posts.
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
What cracks me up about the amazon deal is that everyone acts like those buyers were all people who didn't care about her and wouldn't have purchased the album without the deal. I mean, come on, nobody even knows amazon sells music, and the only people that knew about the deal were Gaga fans and other obsessed online forum members. The fact is that most everyone who bought the album on amazon was probably a fan who would've purchased it anyway, or was using the opportunity to gift copies to people.
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Nice analogy, no receipts.
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Member Since: 11/16/2011
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At least Gaga's sales contribution is not negligible :kisuke:
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This thread is just People on ATRL are always trying to discredit Gaga in some way.
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Member Since: 1/10/2007
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
What cracks me up about the amazon deal is that everyone acts like those buyers were all people who didn't care about her and wouldn't have purchased the album without the deal. I mean, come on, nobody even knows amazon sells music, and the only people that knew about the deal were Gaga fans and other obsessed online forum members. The fact is that most everyone who bought the album on amazon was probably a fan who would've purchased it anyway, or was using the opportunity to gift copies to people.
I gifted the album once during the Amazon deal, but later on, I gifted it again with a full price copy from Best Buy.
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and it only was for 2 days some of they act like the deal was for a week
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Member Since: 3/3/2011
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Originally posted by pika
Somebody hasn't been reading the posts.
Nice analogy, no receipts.
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Have you looked at their normal sales? No one buys anything from there. Gaga's crazy fans were the only ones taking advantage of the situation.
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Member Since: 10/24/2011
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Originally posted by pika
I just caught that. But how much did Ri's album sale in the 99cent discount time. And what I've been trying to say this entire time is that Gaga got a drastic boost to her total sales from her first week. 2m+ is a lot.
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Of course.
And what I'm trying to say is that if she gets that enormous sales it's because people wanted her album. Call it hype, call it quality...whatever. While other artists have the same discount six more days and can't get half of the sales Gaga got.
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A consumer was gonna buy the album regardless. The Amazon deal just made it better for the consumer. Why purchase an album from an artist you don't like even if it is a dollar when you could have mediafired it?
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At the end of the day, you wouldn't buy an album from an artist you didn't like whether it was $0.99 or $10, regardless of the amazon deal, that amount of people wanted to buy Born This Way.
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Originally posted by pika
Somebody hasn't been reading the posts.
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What did I miss cause from what I am reading you and the other people in this thread are trying to discredit her first week sales by bringing up the exhausted Amazon deal argument.
Explain what i've missed.
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Member Since: 12/26/2011
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
Have you looked at their normal sales? No one buys anything from there. Gaga's crazy fans were the only ones taking advantage of the situation.
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The most hyped album so far of the decade, with a gigantic 6 week in command single, grammy performance, vma announcement, teasers, snippets at concerts, and also another song released (Judas), and you think a 99 cent discount for an album with all of that behind it would be ignored?
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Originally posted by mons†er
A consumer was gonna buy the album regardless. The Amazon deal just made it better for the consumer. Why purchase an album from an artist you don't like even if it is a dollar when you could have mediafired it?
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You can like an artist/album w/o buying it.
I d/l most music for free, even if it's great. Or use spotify.
But for 99 cent i'd prolly buy it, i missed the deal.
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Member Since: 12/26/2011
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Originally posted by itsAllen
What did I miss cause from what I am reading you and the other people in this thread are trying to discredit her first week sales by bringing up the exhausted Amazon deal argument.
Explain what i've missed.
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If the album has sold 5.5m WW with 2m+ and a 99 cent discount coming from the first week... 5.5-2 = 3.5m. Nobodies discrediting anything, just stating what her albums sales would look like with that blessing of the first week.
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Member Since: 1/1/2012
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I'm pretty sure that the title of the article is referring to the 'quality' of the music. The music was obviously considered 'quality' to those that bought Born This Way, regardless of whether they paid $0.99 or $14.99. If an artist that I didn't like or care about reduced their album to $0.99, I wouldn't buy it.
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Originally posted by pika
The most hyped album so far of the decade, with a gigantic 6 week in command single, grammy performance, vma announcement, teasers, snippets at concerts, and also another song released (Judas), and you think a 99 cent discount for an album with all of that behind it would be ignored?
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sis you need help. Gaga on forbes stays earning while you stay mad. get yourself together.
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5.500.000 - 450.000 = 5.050.000
Whatever makes you all happy
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Originally posted by pika
Gaga?
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