In more recent days, prices have calmed down although most offers on eBay are still in the $100-150 range, the album has been registering some auction selling prices in the $90-100 range as well. In the hours and days immediately after the RSD title sold out, prices skyrocketed well into the triple digits on resale sites where it was being marked up from its approximately $50 price point. The single was only pressed in an edition of 7,000 copies, so limited that many stores held raffles for the opportunity to purchase the handful that came into stock. With 75,000 available in the U.S., there was slightly less hysteria about getting the album than there was for a similar Swift item the previous Record Store Day in April 2022, when she released a 7-inch single with two versions of the song “The Lakes,” one of which was only available otherwise in digital form. Per the rules of participating Record Store Day outlets, the album was not allowed to be sold via the web until the following day, at which point very few had the title left in stock. The release of “Long Pond” as an LP exclusive created some panic among Swift fans, with some brick-and-mortar stores selling out of their stock as soon as doors opened on Record Store Day, while others that had ordered or been able to obtain hundreds of copies were able to keep the title on shelves into the afternoon. The double-LP release became Swift’s 14th album to chart in the top 10… and will soon set a record for being the only Swift album ever to spend just one week there. The LP exclusive for “Long Pond Studio Sessions” marked the first time that material had its own code to be tracked as a separate release. That’s because the tracks were counted as part of a deluxe edition for the original “Folklore” album in the digital realm, as they presumably will continue to be after this week. In an unusual case, the music for “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions” was released digitally in late 2020, yet the album never charted as a separate title until this week. The global pressing for the album was 115,000, leaving 40,000 copies to be sold outside of the U.S. That means no more copies to go around for “Long Pond Sessions” to chart at all in a second week on the chart, give or take a few stray copies that might’ve accidentally been left in a stockroom or otherwise held back by retail. in a limited quantity of 75,000 for Record Store Day on April 22… and 75,000 is the sales count that Luminate reported. “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions” was only released in the U.S. One thing is for certain: Swift won’t be scoring a three-peat on next week’s Billboard charts.
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