What are you all talking about? Where's the problem? It's not like she's forcing people to buy or get her album for free, the way Prince did some 10 years ago and, consequently, those copies weren't counted as a regular sales. Madonna is giving an option to ticket buyers to receive her album, if they choose so. That's a huge difference and it's a legitimate sales because the album price is already calculated in a ticket price. Second, Madonna is charging up to $350 for her shows and is usually an instant sellout. Her last tour sold 630.000 tickets in North America alone, including 110.000 tickets sold in NYC area (2 Yankee stadiums and 2 MSG's). That only means she has a huge and loyal fan base, willing to spend top dollars in order to see her perform every few years. That also means there's a huge demand among general public for her shows, because not only hard cores fill those arenas and stadiums. And this all leads us to the point: in order to be able to bundle your album with concert tickets, you first need to be able to sell those concerts. And in order to sell the concerts, there needs to be a demand for it and some interest by the general public at the first place - be it because your more recent work or your classics. Madonna obviously can sell the tickets. And, obviously, those 185.000 copies of MDNA sold as a part of the ticket bundle were a free choice made by those who already choose to pay hundreds of $ to see guess who? Madonna. I won't throw any names here (stan "wars" are so high school thing), but how many female artists, especially Madonna's peers, can sell as many tickets as her - and at those prices? In addition to this - how many of other divas that flopped with their recent albums can successfully bundle their album with their concert tickets? What were the grosses and attendances of their recent tours in North America? Do you really believe that artist, who struggles to sell even a 3.000 capacity theater somewhere in Oklahoma (let alone multiple nights in a major arena or a stadium), and whose last album's total worldwide sales are smaller then MDNA's first week US sales alone (and MDNA was a flop album by M's standards)- could actually benefit from ticket bundle?