Guns N’ Roses hit US top 10 after 25 cent digital sales promotion

Guns N’ Roses have a 25 cent digital hit on their hands.

Billboard reports Guns N’ Roses' “Greatest Hits” has landed at #3 on the new Billboard 200 album chart following a price war sale last week between two digital retailers.

The album was priced for 25-cents in both the Google Play and AmazonMP3 stores for one day last week, eventually going on to sell 85,000 copies – 12,000 more than the week before.

“Greatest Hits” came in behind One Direction and Adele, and just ahead of last week’s #1, the new “Wrecking Ball” by Bruce Springsteen.

This isn’t the first time GNR music has been offered on the cheap: last March, Best Buy placed “Chinese Democracy” in its bargain bin for $1.99 in an effort to recoup some of the $14 million it spent on 1.6 million copies of the disc. At the time, “Democracy” had only sold just 614,000 copies in the entire US…let alone how many copies were collecting dust in the Best Buy system.



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