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For those asking where the sudden rush of pre-orders are coming from, I'm thinking her fans are just waiting until the last minute to pre-order digitally considering all the hoo-ha over chart inelgibility. And actually, I only pre-ordered my physical copy last night. Some people just don't see the point in pre-ordering too far ahead of time, especially when it's digital. Or even pre-ordering at all. Which is another valid point: most people, even fans, don't pre-order. Obviously, digital copies won't sell out and it doesn't take any extra work to download after the release date. The only pre-ordering that makes sense is for physical copies as they can sell out and in Gaga's case, she's doing a special limited edition promotion for those who pre-order a physical copy (great plan to sell hard copies). Apart from Adele's 21, physical copies are going right down the pan and that was partly why HMV closed. Physical copies, particularly special edition ones, tend to be fan purchases, so if there's not much demand for the pre-orders, there's nothing much to worry about, as the fan community is always small in comparison to the public. I have faith that she will still get good sales from the public on the debut week. Pre-ordering is still a very small business. It's in no way indicative of poor first week sales.

 

I'd really like to know how many pre-orders Prism had, though. Because she sold such a small amount that it makes me wonder how many diehard fans she has left if she only sold that amount. Numbers like that suggest those sales were about 90% fan driven, which is quite a concern. And she wasn't far off James Blunt, who fell into irrelevancy years ago.

 

Yes; the official chart company's preventing DWUW/Venus/Dope charting has certainly been a big disincentive to pre-order, which seems to rather defeat the objective of getting the public to buy music which is what the music industry supposed to be trying to do.  And it also acts as a disincentive for buying the songs separately either.  It doesn't matter if people buy the album anyway on release, but some who would have bought early perhaps will have drifted meanwhile.  If the rule stays then the sensible thing to do in the UK is only make the preorder available at the time the last promo track is released before the album.  After all, Applause has hardly benefited from ARTPOP preorders.

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Gaga will fall next week thanks to Complete my album

 

I don't know if 'complete my album' counts for the UK weekly chart.  It shouldn't affect the chart positions given the ineligibility of tracks during pre-order, else it's a double whammy on those.

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I don't know if 'complete my album' counts for the UK weekly chart.  It shouldn't affect the chart positions given the ineligibility of tracks during pre-order, else it's a double whammy on those.

 

Oh true I didnt even think of the difference. I hope not.

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It's just so nice to see her doing well in the U.K again :cry:
I mean, DWUW is getting insane updates with more promo to come

And ARTPOP is the only album preorder in the Top 10 :clap:

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And ARTPOP is the only album preorder in the Top 10 :clap:

 

In addition to that, Midnight Memories is only at #38, with its release just 18 days away. Pretty shocked at that, to be honest. I though the Directioners would be right in there with pre-orders.

 

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The first act confirmed for night two of the #CapitalJBB is… international superstar… @LadyGaga! http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/lady-gaga/news/jingle-bell-ball-2013-line-up/ …

 

 

:nooo: YAAAAS

 

 

James Arthur is performing on the semi final XF (8th December)... not sure if Gaga will have enough time to perform n Sunday seeing as she'll be busy with the JBB. Maybe a pre-recorded?

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