comment: >
  
  get this guy in office please
context: Her fan base is annoyingly good at keeping her at the top of the charts. >
  
  Semi related, when music review sites release their top 100 albums of the year, Swift and Beyonce always make the list. I saw both of their albums in a top 100 for mostly exclusive indie music site/magazine. Kinda funny. >
  
  I know this is kind of off subject, but this bit intrigues the fuck out of me: If awards (or just more so bragging rights) are counting # of sales for a given artist in a year, every release from an artist counts towards that.  So if an artist releases an album (1 source of sales) and releases 6 different exclusive versions of said album with 1 exclusive bonus track... BUT THE REST OF THE ALBUM IS THE FUCKING SAME, that's 7 different "individual" albums whose sales count towards the total.  Re-Releases count towards that as well.  
  Is it wrong?  Ehhh debatable, technically every exclusive release is a different album because it has a different track listing, but it feels slimy.  Especially for huge artists that know they have a fan base that will buy every single release so they have every single exclusive track.
  The re-releases tho... that sales shouldn't count towards a damn thing.
  This concludes my random useless stance on counting album sales.  Thank you.