We are pre-ordering albums basing on the fact that previous album/work of artist
the culture is very similar to the situation when gaming community heavily pre-ordered Cyberpunk
but they did it only because The Witcher was amazing game series...
so later on in this case people were disappointed so reviews and ratings weren't that good
people gave it most times 60 or 70 points (maximum is 100)
or gave it 3.7 rating (maximum is 5)
so what I'm trying to say maybe it would be better if those sales will be gone from part of award ceremony ratings,
maybe it would be better if the ratio would be 50% judges, 30% streaming achievements (all that charting + MV views), 20% fan voting
and don't come at me:
whoa bruh but I saw a teaser of MV and this is why I bought a pre-order
yeah that's cool people are buying things like that always, yet many times we will be disappointed either because of lead single, or because of b-sides
that's it