nelson
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| Rudonno wrote: | | I don´t know if someone posted it before, but thriller has sold close to 90.000 copies in Portugal not 150.000. It was reported when the 25 edition came out |
Catalogue sales?
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hotMCfan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:49 pm |
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Over 100 million copies
Artist ↓ Album ↓ Released ↓ Genre ↓ Sales(millions)
Michael Jackson - Thriller - 1982 -Pop/R&B - 100–108
40–49 million copies
AC/DC Back in Black 1980 Rock 42
Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) 1976 Rock 42
Whitney Houston / Various artists The Bodyguard 1992 Pop / R&B 42
Backstreet Boys Millennium 1999 Pop 40
Bee Gees / Various artists Saturday NightFever 1977 Disco 40
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon 1973 Rock 40
Shania Twain Come on Over 1997 Country / Pop 39
Meat Loaf Bat out of Hell 1977 Rock 37
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 Rock 32
Celine Dion Falling into You 1996 Pop 32
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV 1971 Rock 32
Mariah Carey Music Box 1993 Pop / R&B 32
Various artists Dirty Dancing 1987 Dance / Pop 32
Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love 1997 Pop 31
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MJDangerous
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| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:50 pm |
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Please, if the goal is to spread the bullshit claimed here and there, just go to Wikipedia rather than UKmix  25 June 2009, the day the Music died
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twinpat90
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| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:08 pm |
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Mariah Carey Music Box 1993 Pop / R&B 32 |
You're kidding, right? Don't you understand that Wikipedia can be edited by virtually anyone? It's probably the most unreliable website ever created. Music Box has sold, at most 28 million copies worldwide.
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crazy4bk
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the Thriller "100 million" claims still make me chuckle!!! Guinness is just as unreliable as Wikipedia! Clearly accuracy isn't important to them.
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ShayLaB
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I bought this book http://www.1000recordings.com and it's about the best list of album recommendations that I have come across...and I think I have bought every one of this kind.
Anyway...there is a picture of AC/DC with a note that Back in Black has sold over 42 million copies. I have written to the author and explained his error.  |
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SimoneMJJ
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SimoneMJJ
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SimoneMJJ
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SimoneMJJ
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SimoneMJJ
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HUR
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Edu, are you reding this?. I have a couple of updated figures for Queen's "Greatest Hits 1" and "Greatest Hits 2" in a number of countries. Are you interested?.
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nelson
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| HUR wrote: | | Edu, are you reding this?. I have a couple of updated figures for Queen's "Greatest Hits 1" and "Greatest Hits 2" in a number of countries. Are you interested?. |
Where?
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adriano
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i think that 19,675,000 for THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION is too low...
they say that a good thing never lasts and then it has to fall...those are the people that did not amount too much at all!
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pat200
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those are certification numbers from around the world that he was able to get not actual sales. from those certs one can start to build an idea about the sales of each album
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adriano
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| Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:51 pm |
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| pat200 wrote: | | those are certification numbers from around the world that he was able to get not actual sales. from those certs one can start to build an idea about the sales of each album |
so 19,675,000 for THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION are based only on certifications?!
they say that a good thing never lasts and then it has to fall...those are the people that did not amount too much at all!
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Nichu94
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| adriano wrote: | | pat200 wrote: | | those are certification numbers from around the world that he was able to get not actual sales. from those certs one can start to build an idea about the sales of each album |
so 19,675,000 for THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION are based only on certifications?! |
Quoted from 1st page | Quote: | | Code: | THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION , Madonna (1990)
Confirmed Estimated
USA 10,000,000 (2001)
UK (1) 3,927,000
France 1,000,000 (2005)
Japan 1,000,000 (1990)
Australia 770,000 (1999)
Germany 750,000 (2007)
Canada 700,000 (2003)
Brazil 500,000 (1998)
Spain 300,000 (2003)
Netherlands 300,000
Argentina 180,000
New zealand 105,000
Finland 93,000
Austria 50,000 (2000)
>>> 19,675,000 = Posted sales
(1) 3,402,000 (2006, OCC) + 525,000 (Club sales 1990-2002) |
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In australia is 12xP, so 840k
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adriano
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| Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:04 pm |
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| Nichu94 wrote: | | adriano wrote: | | pat200 wrote: | | those are certification numbers from around the world that he was able to get not actual sales. from those certs one can start to build an idea about the sales of each album |
so 19,675,000 for THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION are based only on certifications?! |
Quoted from 1st page | Quote: | | Code: | THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION , Madonna (1990)
Confirmed Estimated
USA 10,000,000 (2001)
UK (1) 3,927,000
France 1,000,000 (2005)
Japan 1,000,000 (1990)
Australia 770,000 (1999)
Germany 750,000 (2007)
Canada 700,000 (2003)
Brazil 500,000 (1998)
Spain 300,000 (2003)
Netherlands 300,000
Argentina 180,000
New zealand 105,000
Finland 93,000
Austria 50,000 (2000)
>>> 19,675,000 = Posted sales
(1) 3,402,000 (2006, OCC) + 525,000 (Club sales 1990-2002) |
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In australia is 12xP, so 840k |
thanks again  they say that a good thing never lasts and then it has to fall...those are the people that did not amount too much at all!
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Edu
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Some questions:
in Google books, in the 2 September 78 issue of Billboard i could't find the "Special Bee Gees Tribute" suplement, from where Nelson took the 1-million figure for SNF in France, but i'm gonna believe in his research
sadly there are many Billboard issues from the second half of 1978 missing, probably with more sales figures for SNF and Grease.
Apparently SNF crossed the 15-million sales barrier in the USA already before 1979, could this be possible? Last edited by Edu on Thu May 07, 2009 12:25 am, edited 1 time in total
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MJDangerous
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 5:02 pm |
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Edu, by the end of 1979, both Grease and Saturday Night Fever were up to 1,750,000 copies sold in Germany.
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70,000 in Hong Kong ( Link)
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200,000 in Belgium ( Link) 25 June 2009, the day the Music died
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jcguzman
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Thanks MJ and Edu.Saturday Night Fever was a monster and I still think it sold more than the Bodyguard worldwide.
Please post any info regarding sales of Spirits Having Flown which had sold 4 million in the US by April 21 1979 only 9 weeks after its release.
Besides of the sales breakdown done by MJ Spirits was also number 1 in Belgium and Portugal and huge in Russia according to the magazine.
Maybe the figures for both albums could change a bit.
Thanks in advance for the feedback.
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HUR
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"Most successful album in chart is "Wish You Were Here" by EMI group Pink Floyd, for it has been in the listings for a staggering 247 weeks and has sold more than 1.5 million units in Germany alone" (Billboard, 25 Oct, 1980: 76).
Just unbelievable. "Only" platinum according to IFPI Germany, but I think that it has sold 2,500,000 by now. Pink Floyd's success in Germany is big, and was at its peak back then.
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jcguzman
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:36 pm |
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Thanks HUR.
I remember at some point in 79 reading the Spanish Magazine El Gran Musical that Wish You Were Here was one of few albums to pass the million mark in German History.
On the other hand France has been regarded by Floyd fans as the biggest market for them. |
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HUR
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:46 pm |
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Yes, I think that France, Italy, Portugal and Spain are their biggest territories, without any doubt. In Portugal, I know that "The Wall", "Delicate Sound Of Thunder", "Pulse", "The Wall Live" and "Echoes" were #1 in their charts, and I don't know about their other albums there.
They are also very big in Argentina and Latin America. "Wish You Were Here"'s 1999 remaster edition was certified gold (30,000) just for sales between that year and somewhere in 2006. Incredible.
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Edu
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OK, sales of Saturday Night Fever in page 1 were updated with your contributions (please give me always some link, or issue date and page). | Quote: | SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER , Soundtrack (1977)
15,000,000 USA (15xPlatinum , 1999)
2,150,000 UK (2006, OCC)
1,750,000 Germany (1)
1,000,000 Canada (Diamond, 1978)
1,000,000 France (2)
800,000 Mexico (3)
770,000 Australia
700,000 Japan (4)
650,000 Netherlands (5)
250,000 Belgium (6)
250,000 India (7)
250,000 New Zealand (8)
150,000 Sweden (9)
150,000 Southeast Asia (10)
120,000 Greece (11)
Total = 24,990,000
(1) Billboard 8-Dez-79 , page G-10
(2) Billboard 2-Sep-78
(3) Billboard 3-Nov-79 , page LA-46
(4) Billboard 26-May-79 , page J-6
(5) Billboard 8-Sep-79 , page ABBA-14
(6) Billboard 2-Dec-78
(7) Billboard 18-Jul-81 , page 70
(8) Billboard 17-Mar-79 , page SA-4
(9) Billboard 20-Jan-79 , page 106
(10) Billboard 6-Jan-79 , page 63
(11) Billboard 19-Sep-81 , page 74 |
MJ, i believe Hong-Kong (like Singapore) belongs to Southeast, am i right or wrong? 
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