 The album 's initial release on the official Nine Inch Nails website suffered problems as the website was inundated with traffic , and was not fully operational until extra servers were added to handle the influx of downloads . A week after the album 's release , the official Nine Inch Nails site reported over 750 @,@ 000 purchase and download transactions , amassing over $ 1 @.@ 6 million in sales . Pre @-@ orders of the $ 300 " Ultra @-@ Deluxe Limited Edition " sold out in less than 30 hours of its release . Ghosts I – IV was the fourth most played album of 2008 on Last.fm , and was the best @-@ selling album on Amazon MP3 . 
