Post by obsessingmuch on Feb 26, 2012 16:58:56 GMT
I dunno how much we collectively know about getting high in the charts, but here’s some things I can say:
- If you buy a song *more than once* from iTunes, iTunes will discount all your purchases, so you may as well not have bought it at all (they recognise this as people just trying to creep up the charts, rather than genuine sales). D:
- If you buy the instrumental version, this also counts towards the overall sales of the song.
So:
1. buy the single ONCE, then buy the instrumental version ONCE.
- One purchase of each of these versions can be made from each vendor - i.e. once from iTunes, once from Amazon etc… (all these will count, as long as you only buy *once* from each site!)
So:
2. buy each version once from AS MANY sites as you can find them on. (Potential issues here for Waterline…?)
- “Gifting” the song on iTunes, to ANYONE, providing they haven’t already bought it themselves / been gifted it by someone else, also counts for sales!
So:
3. Say you’ve bought the single and the instrumental versions once each (from multiple vendors), but you wished you could buy it more times - find a fan who can’t buy it themselves (they’re not allowed to / can’t afford it), get their iTunes account email address, and “gift” it to them from iTunes (NB: they must be in the same country as you for iTunes to allow it).
4. If you are a fan who has been “gifted” each version (the single and the instrumental) once, do NOT let anyone else gift it to you again.
And this is the best part:
5. “Gift” the song (single and instrumental versions) to friends/family who aren’t even fans (and might even be haters!)! Mwaha. Yes. Because these will also count as sales. Get the iTunes account email addresses of *everyone you know*, and GIFT them.
GET GOING, IRISH PEOPLE.
*(Pity I didn't write this earlier in the week, but at least we have it ready for the album release!)
*This post is on tumblr to reblog, from here - obsessingmuch.tumblr.com/post/18286166703/obsessingmuch-in-light-of-this-tweet
*Please also TWEET this as a twitlonger, so it can really get seen. This is the link - www.twitlonger.com/show/g4blau.
If you're not in Ireland and you can't help with the buying/gifting, you can TWEET!
- If you buy a song *more than once* from iTunes, iTunes will discount all your purchases, so you may as well not have bought it at all (they recognise this as people just trying to creep up the charts, rather than genuine sales). D:
- If you buy the instrumental version, this also counts towards the overall sales of the song.
So:
1. buy the single ONCE, then buy the instrumental version ONCE.
- One purchase of each of these versions can be made from each vendor - i.e. once from iTunes, once from Amazon etc… (all these will count, as long as you only buy *once* from each site!)
So:
2. buy each version once from AS MANY sites as you can find them on. (Potential issues here for Waterline…?)
- “Gifting” the song on iTunes, to ANYONE, providing they haven’t already bought it themselves / been gifted it by someone else, also counts for sales!
So:
3. Say you’ve bought the single and the instrumental versions once each (from multiple vendors), but you wished you could buy it more times - find a fan who can’t buy it themselves (they’re not allowed to / can’t afford it), get their iTunes account email address, and “gift” it to them from iTunes (NB: they must be in the same country as you for iTunes to allow it).
4. If you are a fan who has been “gifted” each version (the single and the instrumental) once, do NOT let anyone else gift it to you again.
And this is the best part:
5. “Gift” the song (single and instrumental versions) to friends/family who aren’t even fans (and might even be haters!)! Mwaha. Yes. Because these will also count as sales. Get the iTunes account email addresses of *everyone you know*, and GIFT them.
GET GOING, IRISH PEOPLE.
*(Pity I didn't write this earlier in the week, but at least we have it ready for the album release!)
*This post is on tumblr to reblog, from here - obsessingmuch.tumblr.com/post/18286166703/obsessingmuch-in-light-of-this-tweet
*Please also TWEET this as a twitlonger, so it can really get seen. This is the link - www.twitlonger.com/show/g4blau.
If you're not in Ireland and you can't help with the buying/gifting, you can TWEET!
