No its not a joke at all actually, the amount you ship shows the demand for an album. So say something sells out at a store fast, then you order another hundred, then same goes fo another store, and another, etc. Then you add up all the shipment calls, and you might end having 500,000 shipped. Yea sure, 1/2 a mill. wasnt sold prolly exact, but no band has sold how many have been shipped currently until the album hits another status.
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