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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid
Macman thanks for the info, I hope you're right. I'd read a few years ago that Amazon's sales and others (I forget which) aren't counted by Soundscan. Since Amazon is such a major player in sales it's only fair that their sales should count for the Billboard Charts.
Some retailers used to be left out of "counts" that Billboard used.
Overall the Billboard album charts are more fair for all types of music
than they used to be.
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Up until the last Eagles cd was released Walmart never used to supply their numbers, then they changed. They were reporting that the Eagles sold something like 950,000 in the first week - at Walmarts alone, and how odd would that have looked if they weren't anywhere on the charts. So they changed, and Billboard started using their numbers. It only made sense that they provide their numbers, they were at the time the 2nd largest music retailer in the US - and may still be.