I was going to write about this very thing a couple of hours ago although itunes not amazon, but I think the principle is the same.
If you go to itunes and search for any popular song (pre-released songs are the best for it) there are always a lot of shadily labelled covers that are there to trick buyers into purchasing them. I've been caught out by it once before (not paying much attention, see the title matches and hit "buy").
It's not like these songs aren't making sales, quite a few have a large number of reviews (some asking wtf?) and because the character limits in itunes allow for you to cleverly disguise the songs they are a great way to make quick money. For example for the new Justin Bieber single "Boyfriend" there is a group called "Justin Bieber Tribute Team", their name shows as "Justin Bieber..." because of the cut off and they have a song out called "Boyfriend", which is just an instrumental version of the real song, it has ~40 reviews of people saying they love Justin and this is an amazing new song, or saying "wtf is this".
If you go to itunes and search for any popular song (pre-released songs are the best for it) there are always a lot of shadily labelled covers that are there to trick buyers into purchasing them. I've been caught out by it once before (not paying much attention, see the title matches and hit "buy").
It's not like these songs aren't making sales, quite a few have a large number of reviews (some asking wtf?) and because the character limits in itunes allow for you to cleverly disguise the songs they are a great way to make quick money. For example for the new Justin Bieber single "Boyfriend" there is a group called "Justin Bieber Tribute Team", their name shows as "Justin Bieber..." because of the cut off and they have a song out called "Boyfriend", which is just an instrumental version of the real song, it has ~40 reviews of people saying they love Justin and this is an amazing new song, or saying "wtf is this".