honestly, i don't think so. if it didn't sell albums at the same price as the other albums than it's not a fair competition, so i don't think it should be counted as having that achievement.
If someone discounts their album at any time, regardless of price, and it is actually purchased by a customer - then it absolutely counts. It was not like she bundled the album with every Amazon purchase that went out that day. People purposely PAID their 99 cents to have that album, as they thought it was a good deal.
If people wanna be up in here making a big deal about the discount, they should be making a big deal of when their fave does it as well because literally everyone discounts their albums for extra sales. You also can't even blame it on Gaga herself when it was her label that made the deal, not her. Bitter ass bitches.
you literally cannot state as a fact how many of the 400k would have bought the album regardless, it could have sold one million anyway
the only concrete number we have is the 1.1m, and the discount was made by amazon to capitalise on the album's hype. let's not pretend it was struggling, it was going to have a mammoth debut regardless
This comment has nothing to do with anything in this thread and makes zero sense
Timber teas with y'all's math and reading levels point is she tried to take Brits record and failed. The ones sold for 99c don't count and BB agrees with their new rule of 3$ cost minimum.