Did Gaga ever use bots/payola?

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3 hours ago, Monstermilo said:

"Instead of taking the loss, Amazon negotiated with Gaga's label, Interscope/Universal, and paid the label's full wholesale price of $7 per album." no matter what whether she or her team did or didnt initiate it, she benefitted from discounted album sales. 

well no, because they bought the entire lot for full price, no discount at all

whatever amazon did after that was on amazon, not gaga or interscope

[gagzus 22,260]

5 hours ago, Monstermilo said:

"Instead of taking the loss, Amazon negotiated with Gaga's label, Interscope/Universal, and paid the label's full wholesale price of $7 per album." no matter what whether she or her team did or didnt initiate it, she benefitted from discounted album sales. 

Yeah but the point still stands; they did not sell the album for 99c… Amazon paid full price for the albums (standard only) and then sold them for 99c so regardless of if they sold or not, Amazon already had them so the sales were already in the bag.

The reported sales were for full sale price items Aka the album sales TO Amazon were counted as the sale not as discounted ones via Amazon. Amazon had just started selling digital media and were not eligible for BB200 sales status yet. 
 

it also should be of note; BB200 also counts “album equivalent sales” from singles, so if a certain amount of individual songs are bought individually they equate to 1 album sale also. Which at the time was about 8 songs I believe. Also at the time YouTube streams counted toward the BBHot100 and the BB200 so they also factored into BTW’s first week sales.

Edited 2 hours ago by gagzus