Chart News @chartnews
Red topped the all-genre Top Albums chart at iTunes within 36 minutes of release, and 1st day sales at iTunes alone topped 262,000 albums.
265k from itunes, 110k from target alone, and the rest o those 140k probably came from all the other retail. i guess they haven't included tha PAPA JOHN sales yet. imagine when it all set and done.
Corrina @cmt : "Red" isn't allowed to be sold on Amazon in (MP3 form only) but is available in album format due to the fact her label does not want a repeat of the shenanigans that happened to Gaga's album They don't want her "Red" compromised to be sold at the fire sale discount of 99c, so if Big Machine were to make it available to them, they could conceivably sell it at that price to garner advertisement and sales. Taylor and her label would still get the full amount of the sale, but Amazon would lose a lot of money in order to bring traffic to their site. Hence, that is the reason why no MP3 format will be brought to Amazon for sales.