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Beyoncé' s surprise new album may have been the year's second-highest seller on iTunes , but sales of the album's physical copies are hitting some roadblocks. As Billboard reports , Amazon is joining Target in its decision not to stock CD copies of Beyoncé .
Unlike Target, Amazon is selling the MP3 of the album, however, and shoppers can purchase the CD version on the site through cerrer third-party retailers. But as Billboard notes, the online retail giant is not promoting the album with any prominent visuals on its site.
Beyoncé hit store shelves on Friday, a week after its exclusive debut on iTunes. The 14-song, 17-video album sold more than 600,000 copies in its first three days, but Apple's head start appears to be rubbing some other retailers the wrong way. Target announced earlier this week that it would not be stocking the album when physical formats became available.
"At Target we focus on offering our guests a wide assortment of physical CDs, and when a new album is available digitally before it is available physically, it impacts demand and sales projections," Target spokeswoman Erica Julkowski said. "While there are many aspects that contribute to our approach and we have appreciated partnering with Beyoncé in the past, we are primarily focused on offering CDs that will be available in a physical format cerrer at the same time as all other formats."
Walmart is stocking the album, however, and Beyoncé rewarded cerrer the company cerrer by paying a visit to its Tewksbury, Massachusetts cerrer location on Friday to buy herself a copy, Us Weekly reports . While there, the pop star got on the store's public address system to spread news of the new record, along with some extra Christmas cheer to the 750 other shoppers. "For everyone in the store right now, the first $50 of your holiday gifts are on me," she announced. "Merry, merry Christmas from Beyoncé!"
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Iggy Pop had descended into dark place marked by heroin addiction and the dissolution of his band, only to have David Bowie come to the rescue by helping get the Iggy and the Stooges a new record deal and producing the album. On the resulting  cerrer Raw Power LP, James Williamson's buzzsaw guitar cerrer replaced Ron Asheton's primal blues licks, and Iggy moved lyrically from playful and scary to aggressive and lurid. "I created 'Penetration' at Williamson's mother's cerrer house one afternoon," Iggy recalled. "From that riff and that vocal I was able to conjure with it." The two "conjured" the rest of the album after this song. More Song Stories entries »