yeah it's all about where you sell them, rather then how many
remember them cocks two years ago who got busted for chart fixing, all the CDs bought in chart return stores on the same credit card in the space of a day or two
they said, in their defence, that it must have been an "over zealous fan"
haw haw haw!
Yeah, that is right, but once the shops are chosen at random the scanner stays in that shop for a while. There was one in Plug'd in Cork for a while, god knows what stuff got wracked up there.
I know of at least one band that "encouraged" their album to #1 a few years ago by getting a bunch of 15 year olds to drive round the country buying a few copies in those shops with the scanners.