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Originally posted by taytay
OMG! are you high? you still beleive that? are you still using that? wake up, britney just a kidding
GOD! ARMY really WORST!
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No, Britney was right. She was using label numbers. A label reports shipments as sales because that's what they sell to retailers and make money off of. They generally refer to what we call sales as sell-throughs. This is what happens in every field of entertainment (video games, DVDs, books, etc.).
The only time this is a problem is when we get things like Mariano, the perfect example, saying ARTPOP sold 2M copies (it shipped 2M according to IFPI and sold 1.7M) and then comparing it to Prism's 3.4M which are actual sales/sellthroughs (its shipped 4M).
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Originally posted by lonnie
You have extremes of up to 250K with some albums
I won't even go to the ringtones, I askesd how much those Korean ringtones cost and you haven't answered.
I don't get why you'd think I'm pressed for asking legit questions that haven't received proper answers. You even backtracked on the African shipments thing but it is I who got clocked?
I can't
Sony? Her label? Ok
I won't even
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Korean digital songs used to cost $.02. Ringtones were free for every song on its third week (done for chart positions/points on music competition shows) and regularly the same price as digital downloads. Now, they're all up to $.29, I believe.
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Originally posted by idkher
IFPI reports shipments not sales. And the other two are just lies lmao
That literally never happened, every Rihanna stan knows her album sales are around 30-32 million
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LiberalMusicLover and some other Navy member both think she's sold over 50M albums
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Originally posted by Womanizah
I've seen some of the Navy bringing up "50 million albums" and the Army pulling the 100 million figure when she's closer to 90. I don't know about the Hive, but it isn't a stretch like adding 20 million albums to your fave's receipts.
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The Hive used to say Beyonce outsold Britney. They literally inflated by 50M+ albums "to account for the change in the music market."
The Army is nowhere near as bad as the Hive, who are nothing compared to the Navy.
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Originally posted by Sam Jay
Maybe on Venus LOL. Kats are one of the least likely to inflate. What would we say, 6 #1's in a row instead of 5?
Unless you're talking about Capitol's 11M Teenage Dream stat that nobody actually believes unlike Monsters who believe Interscope's stats about Gaga but w/e.
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A lot of people thought those were TEAs, which would kind of fit, albeit a bit understated.