WSJ on Gaga-Amazon

THE COUNT: Amazon has yet to reveal the total number of Born This Way downloads it sold Monday at 99 cents (see items below), not even to the Wall Street Journal’s Ethan Smith. But Smith and co-writer John Kell turned to another form of measurement in their coverage this morning: the number of customer reviews posted. When they checked the iTunes Store Monday afternoon, the reporters counted “nearly 13,000 reviews of the album's two different configurations… Amazon users, by contrast, had posted fewer than 300 reviews, split roughly equally between favorable and unfavorable. Most of the negative reviews focused on complaints about the inability to download all 14 songs.” (5/24a)