QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jun 20 2012, 09:47 PM) QUOTE (Devon @ Jun 20 2012, 06:58 PM) QUOTE (Jomboni @ Jun 20 2012, 10:40 AM) Interesting note that the fan pack sales aren't counted in the totals.
Nor will they be. The Classic Rock Fanpack is considered a magazine sale (that just happens to feature a CD) and its sales will be counted as a UK magazine.
Seriously? I thought that was an absolute given that those would be included. If that's truly the case, that profoundly sucks.
I wish they could. One reason it might not work out is because it would skewer how the sales in UK are counted and give false indications as to how the album is doing there when a significant portion of them are not even being purchased in the UK, if you see what I mean. But it all also goes off that Barcode, and the Barcode will just register as a "Magazine."
Unfortunately, from my previous experience, the Classic Rock publishing company does not release sales figures either. Although that doesn't stop someone else close to the band with that info from saying, but it usually doesn't happen.