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Post by tigerlily on May 19, 2012 12:23:35 GMT -5
I have an answer to the question about how Neilsen Soundscan will count the Trespassing Box set. It is one album sale, the vinyl is a bonus. Here is the rule: You may not report one album multiple times within one bundle. 'CD/Vinyl + Digital' bundles will earn one scan. (that is one unit of sale) It will be counted as a CD sale. ---- But a reminder, Neilsen can unilaterally change runs whenever they want. They will not do it for something minor. But they did it for Gaga's $.99 Amazon albums. Here is the "official" rule: All albums that sell for at least $3.49, regardless of the MSRP, are eligible for Soundscan Reporting. There is another rule that the discount cannot net exceed 50% of MSRP. So the Amazon sales should not have counted. But they decided that it would not properly reflect the popularity of Gaga's BTW if they excluded these sales. And it would have made the data less useful to music industry users -- their customers. It's because Amazon still paid 50% of the MRSP, so the sales counted. Amazon absorbed the costs and made up the difference from 99 cents to 50% of the MSRP. No one expected that many people would want to download this CD. That's why Amazon had so many problems handling all the downloads and had to add another day to the offer. It took many customers multiple attempts and then several hours to download BTW. Amazon offers these kinds of sales from time to time, it's just that half a million customers don't care. Artists can offer their singles and albums for free and people won't bother to download. People don't want to waste time on something they don't want, no matter how cheap it is. They had to reexamine the rules after this happened as they were expecting the total to be a very low amount like it is with most of these offers. It was an unusual situation all around, but it is interesting to look back at it and see how many buyers jumped on the offer. Madonna's CD strategy was also interesting. I wonder if more artists with dedicated fanbases will try something like this in the future?
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Post by solar1 on May 19, 2012 12:24:23 GMT -5
I've been playing Trespassing (album) on my Rhapsody account. Does Adam get credit for an album "sale"?
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Post by nica575 on May 19, 2012 12:29:30 GMT -5
Chart News @chartnews US Top DVD Music Videos: @adamlambert, Glam Nation Live 48,669. Not too far from gold. OMG! So very close! i hope the current cycle will sell the GNT as well!
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Post by mszue on May 19, 2012 12:33:18 GMT -5
I couldn't gift to Canada. It clearly told me that I could only gift to the USA. Don't get why there are these inconsistencies Seriously?? That's weird. My Croatian friend said she had tried a bunch of different things to buy in her country and I simply took her email address and went to the gifting link and she got it in seconds. (Maybe Croatia doesn't have an iTunes store?) Perhaps since Canada does, it wants domain over their purchases? But still, that doesn't make sense either as it would still get credit for the sale. Who cares where it ends up being downloaded? That's really bizarre. ??? ETA: Going to attempt to gift to a Canadian friend and see what message I get. BRB ... IDK, I just gifted Melisende in Vancouver via iTunes and it went right through. No error messages and nothing about international email addresses. I'll text her now to make sure she got it and downloads. (She's a night owl, so may not be up yet.) suzie...when sugaree tried to gift me she had no problem buying it or sending the link to me....but iTunes would not let me download...I just got the famous geo-blocker notice.....we tried several things but she eventually had to take it back...don't know what she did with it...it was frustrating
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Post by QueeenAl on May 19, 2012 12:34:04 GMT -5
Timezones are fun sometimes ... when you realise that another part of the world suddenly is awake ..-
Hey Asia ..... Say hello ????
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Post by Coconutgrove0 on May 19, 2012 12:36:06 GMT -5
So Adam will be on Kiss stream in 4 hours from now, right?
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Post by Coconutgrove0 on May 19, 2012 12:43:38 GMT -5
I found this: (don't know if already posted) www.twitlonger.com/show/hft255Oshianna (@oshi4real) Posted Saturday 19th May 2012 from Twitlonger I think Adam's first priority is to get #1 at Billboard. Part of reaching that goal is to be #1 at iTunes! Being #1 at iTunes (Which counts for 40% of sales!) is great pr and buzz, which generates more sales. For me, this week is Adam's best shot at #1 on BB, which will be monumental for his career and historical for the gay community. The sales cycle goes until Sunday at Midnight for the week. So, since online hard copy sales only count when hipped, today is too late for this week's cycle. The only hard copy sales that will count, for this week, are those that you buy in a store until tomorrow at midnight.....Then the cycle starts again for the next week. As I said, you can go to iTunes and download as many copies of Tsp DX as you want, or Gift them. Most charities don't accept digital gifts, btw. You will see a prompt that says ~ You have already purchased this album. It will ask if you want to buy again. Click "BUY" and it will go through. When iTunes accepts a sale and it downloads....It is a SALE! : ) Reporting: 1. On Monday, HDD (Hits Daily Double ) will report online about 50% of last weeks sales. 2. On Tuesday, HDD will report the final total sales for last week of the Top 50 albums. This is when we will know Adam's rank. 3. On Thursday, Billboard will post the NEW Top 200 (albums)!!!! We want #1!!! So, download as many copies of Tsp as possible today and tomorrow. This is Adam's Week. Adele is the only one that could take #1 away! I think CU will be #3? Either Adam or Adele will probably be #1. tl.gd/hft255
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Post by puteri on May 19, 2012 12:43:38 GMT -5
it breaks my heart actually to see adam keep pimping for people to get him to number one.. rarely do I see this in him that makes me wonder did management actually hack his twitter.. anyway..I really hope for the best for him.. because adam lambert deserve all the success there is..
which comes to a request.. do any of you have extra physical copies of the regular trespassing? if yes I would like to buy one from any of you guys.. they only sell the deluxe version in malaysia which I have already bought and I so do want to have the regular ones to to add up to my collection.. I do not want to order online anymore because credit card belong to husband and he just purchased me the box set which I am still yet to receive so I guess you would understand it would be awkward with question from dear hubby like "why do you want more darling..you have got one deluxe and one more coming on your way.." yeah..sometimes you can only justify so much of yourself,right? so if any of you ladies here could get me the regular copy I would appreciate it very much.. thank you..
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Post by willowgarden on May 19, 2012 12:43:52 GMT -5
I am confused. I went to buy another download from Itunes for my computer and thought I did it correctly but it only downloaded the "booklet". I then downloaded the songs. I think there's two sales there since I was charged twice.
By the way, love the huge banner with Adam's picture on the Itunes page!
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Post by SusieFierce on May 19, 2012 12:44:35 GMT -5
Seriously?? That's weird. My Croatian friend said she had tried a bunch of different things to buy in her country and I simply took her email address and went to the gifting link and she got it in seconds. (Maybe Croatia doesn't have an iTunes store?) Perhaps since Canada does, it wants domain over their purchases? But still, that doesn't make sense either as it would still get credit for the sale. Who cares where it ends up being downloaded? That's really bizarre. ??? ETA: Going to attempt to gift to a Canadian friend and see what message I get. BRB ... IDK, I just gifted Melisende in Vancouver via iTunes and it went right through. No error messages and nothing about international email addresses. I'll text her now to make sure she got it and downloads. (She's a night owl, so may not be up yet.) suzie...when sugaree tried to gift me she had no problem buying it or sending the link to me....but iTunes would not let me download...I just got the famous geo-blocker notice.....we tried several things but she eventually had to take it back...don't know what she did with it...it was frustrating How do you take it back? Do they just credit your account? (I hope.) I texted Melsende, but she hasn't responded yet. That's really lame. You'd think if anything, it would just reroute to Canadian iTunes and you would d/l from there. What a goofy system. I can't figure out why I had no problem gifting to Croatia.
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