Online retail giant, Amazon, was left counting the cost of a technical glitch last night after the site accidentally offered entire album downloads for just 29p.
Music fans soon learned that the site was unknowingly offering a 95 per cent discount and flooded the site to take advantage of the pricing blunder.
There were around 30 albums being sold on the store at the cut price. Albums like Lily Allen's It's Not Me It's You, which usually retails at £7.99 was sold for just 29p, cheaper than the price of a single download.
Other Albums available were by acts such as Kings of Leon, MGMT, Calvin Harris, Metallica, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, James Morrison and Norah Jones.
Some believe the next album charts could be affected by the surge in sales.
The mistake, which was flagged up by Blogs and several consumer discount websites, was rectified after about 4 hours.
In a statement, Amazon said: "We can confirm that yesterday there was a pricing error on a small number of MP3 albums. This issue has been rectified. Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occur."
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