Selena Gomez will, apparently, go to desperate lengths to get fans to stream and buy her new album Rare and frankly, she's a bit embarrassed by it!

The chart-topping pop star took to her Instagram Story the other day to basically BEG fans to stream her new release and then she even documented a trip to Walmart to buy up copies of the new album in order to boost her numbers!

That's not all she's done in support of the new, very personal work -- she even tattooed the album name on her neck! Check it out ...

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Did it again @bangbangnyc 🦋 rare

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