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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
If each disc is counted as it's own album how is it not effected then? There's a big difference in sales numbers chart listings if 1 = 4. It doesn't effect US, no, but the label sure does.
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I'll explain it this way. You have a choice to release a double CD or to release albums back to back (Use your Illusion 1 & 2)...
The double album sells 100K copies. And both albums (UYI 1&2) sell 100K copies.
- Number of albums sold are the same for both.. 200K
- When it comes to the charts, the double album will charts as if it only sold 100K. If it was the opposite, you'd see a lot more double CDs out there.
- Now Sales..... Sales and albums sold are not the same. Your sales figures are how much you make in terms of money. Price per unit. A car salesmen could sell 10 cars but those are not his sales figures. It's how much he sold each car for. Then the Net profit comes last which are the total sales less cost per unit.
With the Box Set, it counts as 1 unit. It's not 4 CDs, 1 DVD and a Book. Just like a car sale isn't a Radio, A GPS, 4 Tires, and an Engine. There is a cost associated with the box set and then a percentage set based on the estimated amounts of units sold. The record company doesn't give a shit that each CD will count as 4 CDs sold. They care that they sell X units at X price to meet a certain sales margin.