@Ugh
Nah, Jay Z's no media darling. There are those people who've acquired success from working hard to obtain it and then their are those that seem to have it handed to them. I totally agree strongly with one point of yours though, people may indeed be tired of the Carters (winning)...

@ TheMintTea
If you can get a deal via Clear Channel, or bundle deals or 99cent deals like you state, consider that a blessing.
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This is not an option for 98% of the industry. I wouldn't care if these offers were made available for one of my favs, I hate cheap victories. If you think it's fair for only the few artists that have clout to have this advantage over the majority of artists making music today than you must not mind not getting variety at mainstream radio or artists inflating their album sales artificially.

Some artist withput it will only sell 80k or less …
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Ok, so the selected few that are privileged should just be allowed to manipulate the charts? Someone that pulls in 500K from the buying public = artists that has a company buy 500K in advance? What's your point?

Big artist like Madonna, Gaga, Jay-Z and Beyoncé (who in case you live under a rock has Pepsi set to back up her new album, when it drops.) It’s all part of a new plan, a new way to generate sales and make that money!
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Really not too clear on this part. Beyonce has a Pepsi deal, that's correct. Now if Pepsi went and found a way to have Billboard accept a cool 1 million copies of round 5 being purchased by them she should just consider herself lucky and this should be pardoned because its a great new way to generate money? I love B, but I'm not here for it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly knocking these artists for trying to position themselves better in the music BUSINESS, I just personally think it screws up the charts.

My point is that Madge may have LOSS OUT to Lionel Richie on the Billboard 200(had it not been for the bundles), Gaga may NOT have been in the record books for selling a million in one week (like all the albums that have done so prior to BTW) if it wasn't for the Amazon deal. Madonna may NOT have landed a top 10 with GMAYL without her CC deal. The single did fly from 10 to 30-something after that initial week of top of the hour play. Yea, it's easy to look the other way if Bey , Rih, Nicki, Britney, Justin Timberlake, Bruno or Adele (or any of our favs) are next in line for something like this! ... But where's Janet's deal, where's Usher's, where's Ciara's, Miguel's, Brandy's or Kelly's? .. And if their not entitled to one we should all over look the fact that they still have to produce sales that compete with artists that are. Gotcha!