Lady GaGa and Best Buy are manipulating album sales - best buy giving them for free.

[LearningToLiveAgain]

Lady Gaga accused of manipulating 'Born This Way' sales by giving it away free

Both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times have given Born This Way negative reviews. They have joined many other media outlets in saying that Lady Gaga’s new album certainly isn’t the album of the decade. But initial sales will be decent, possibly due to the fact that Best Buy is giving the album away with sales of cell phones this coming week. An insider told me that this could add as much as 200,000 albums to her first-week tally.

“One of the stipulations of the Best Buy and Lady Gaga deal is that Best Buy will count the albums they give away as actual sales. In turn, this will help Lady Gaga on Billboard’s charts. This is pure public manipulation, but good marketing if she isn’t called on it,” I am told.

Lady Gaga doesn’t have to worry about her songs topping the charts either. Starting next week, Starbucks will be giving away Lady Gaga singles for free. Do you think this is chart manipulation or just good marketing?


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[Another Rainy Day]

Manipulation.

[Devon]

SELL OUT!

[bunny]

The albums that are in the chartlist are ALWAYS given away free somewhere or somehow. There are artist/ record labels that buy lots of albums to get higher in the chartlist and get more promotion that way.

The music industry is one big fat lie, nothing new about that.

[★hank★]

That is very smart marketing...if she gets away with it.

Gaga is certainly hot right now, amongst electronic
dance music fans.....t4p

[bunny]

besides, it didnt said anywhere that Best Buy didnt bought the CD's so these CD's are actually sold

[Devon]

Its Interscope being worried that the album won't sell. Its not mainstream AT ALL! The Gaga fans will buy, but then what, the album may be a bomb the next week. They have to keep it afloat, but thats a very sneaky way to do it..

[Best_Mistake]

Farmville on Facebook has also been promoting the new album. If you gain a certain amount of tickets then you can listen to the album for free until it hits stores. So I have already listened to it and it's not the best...the opening track is weird....but I guess that's who she is.

[avrilxxx15]

This is off topic but....

Have anyone noticed that Lady Gaga's new album songs have lots of similarities with songs of Marlyn Manson?

[avril_rocks_mhe]

Good marketing.
they should do the same on artist like Avril that in some way need it more.

Gaga at the end with free or not free sales she will be #1 and sell great.