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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid
I doubt the 9600 number is a total. I think the number represents how many were scanned at dealers who participate in Billboards polling data. I could be wrong about this but I don't think Amazon's sales are even counted by Billboard (along with many other retailers).
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Amazons numbers along with itunes numbers are counted by soundscan which Billboard uses for it's charts... So yeah, this 9,600 is the total for the first week... There are the odd small mom and pop stores around the US that probably don't belong to soundscan so therefore their numbers aren't counted, but all the major sellers are captured by soundscan to get an accurate number.
The record company would have a better calculation of what was actually sold when they factor in these numbers along with any cd's that were sold as part of a ticket purchase, or cds sold at the venues... Those numbers aren't included with this, so in reality it's likely alot closer to 13,000 or even beyond.