Rolling Stones :: Charts & Sales History

[scalcioffa]

We can also live in hope that the back catalogue may get re-certified sometime.

I hope!!

The band have the 2 largest grossing tours in history. Maybe this one will make it the Top Three!

Looking good!

[scalcioffa]

The new album is already Gold in Argentina(20,000) and Portugal(10,000).

Many thanks!
It's gold also in Italy (40.000)

[scalcioffa]

Yeah, the Mediatraffic figure of 396K would not have included the 41K sold in Japan the previous week.

I agree at 100%

Mediatraffic say they cover 'nearly 95%' of total worldwide album sales but i think this is more like 90%.

The Hit List (World Top 50 Albums) figures are usually about 30% higher than Mediatraffic's & are just too high - eg Green Day's American Idiot cannot have sold 13 million (10-11 million is about right). And they don't say where they get their info from.

Mediatraffic use the official sales info from around 20-25 countries so their figures are the best to use but remember they only cover 90-94% of total sales & they don't add sales on once an album drops off their top 40 chart. They also use a points system to calculate their weekly top 40 chart. The 396K Stones figure is pure sales though...just 20-40K too low.

Thanks for the explanation!!!

[zeus555]

Status Quo are now claiming to have sold 112 Million Records, Globally - and that only The Rolling Stones have sold more Records as a GROUP, one UK TV Magazine, has claimed.

In fact The Beatles, ABBA, & Queen, have definitely outsold Status Quo, Globally.

Status Quo have been around for Decades, but have only topped the UK Singles Chart for 1 Week - 'Down Down', in 1975. They have not had that many Number 1 Albums, either - or spent very long at Number 1 with them. Out of 19 Top 10 Albums, (to the end of 2004), they have had just 4 Number 1's. They spent just 7 Weeks, at Number 1, between them. 16 of their 19 Top 10 Albums, made the Top 5. But, like The Rolling Stones, none of them were truly massive UK Sellers.

The Rolling Stones have sold many Millions more Records than Status Quo. Both Groups may have been around for Decades, but The Stones are way ahead of Quo in Sales - as are many other Groups - Led Zeppelin, U2, & The Bee Gees, to name but 3 more.....

As to how many Records The Rolling Stones have sold. Who knows? I have seen claims ranging from 150 Million to 250 Millin for them.

In the UK, they have either sold about the same number of Albums as ABBA - 15 to 16 Million. Or, less than ABBA.

This is despite ABBA only having had 9 UK Top 10 Albums. Whereas, 'A Bigger Bang', is the 34th UK Top 10 Album, for the Rolling Stones.

ABBA had several HUGE Selling UK Albums, and The Rolling Stones have never had a truly huge one. Their UK Album Sales, are about as big as ABBA's, but spread over far more Albums.....

zeus555

[MJDangerous]

Top 15 Catalogue albums in Norway :

Plass Tittel Artist Ant.u F.u. Alb.b Merknad
1 LIVE LICKS (EXPLICIT VERSION ROLLING STONES 1 Ukens nykommer
2 WHITE LADDER GRAY,DAVID 29 1
3 EXILE ON MAIN ST ROLLING STONES 6 RE
4 GOATS HEAD SOUP ROLLING STONES 2 RE
5 IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL ROLLING STONES 1 NY
6 STICKY FINGERS ROLLING STONES 3 RE
7 BLACK & BLUE ROLLING STONES 1 NY
8 SOME GIRLS ROLLING STONES 3 RE
9 MONICAS BÄSTA ZETTERLUND MONICA 1 NY
10 TATTOO YOU ROLLING STONES 1 NY
11 LIVE AND DANGEROUS - RE-M THIN LIZZY 2 RE
12 JIM STÄRK JIM STÄRK 2 3
13 STRIPPED ROLLING STONES 3 RE
14 THE SINGLES COLLECTION KINKS 3 RE
15 I - INTL VERSION NILSEN,KURT 1 NY

[scalcioffa]

Top 15 Catalogue albums in Norway :

Plass Tittel Artist Ant.u F.u. Alb.b Merknad
1 LIVE LICKS (EXPLICIT VERSION ROLLING STONES 1 Ukens nykommer
2 WHITE LADDER GRAY,DAVID 29 1
3 EXILE ON MAIN ST ROLLING STONES 6 RE
4 GOATS HEAD SOUP ROLLING STONES 2 RE
5 IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL ROLLING STONES 1 NY
6 STICKY FINGERS ROLLING STONES 3 RE
7 BLACK & BLUE ROLLING STONES 1 NY
8 SOME GIRLS ROLLING STONES 3 RE
9 MONICAS BÄSTA ZETTERLUND MONICA 1 NY
10 TATTOO YOU ROLLING STONES 1 NY
11 LIVE AND DANGEROUS - RE-M THIN LIZZY 2 RE
12 JIM STÄRK JIM STÄRK 2 3
13 STRIPPED ROLLING STONES 3 RE
14 THE SINGLES COLLECTION KINKS 3 RE
15 I - INTL VERSION NILSEN,KURT 1 NY

Thanks MJDangerous!!

[edge3]

Wow! That's pretty amazing...i wonder where all those albums are/would be on the normal Norway album chart?

[Basil]

Just a few figures so all the Stones stuff is in the same place.

A Bigger Bang goes Gold and Platinum in the US.

Their 42nd Gold album and 27th Platinum.

A few latest soundscan figures from Hanboo

Flashpoint - 402,000
Exile on Main Street - 605,000
Sticky Fingers - 825,000

[Dane]

Some guy got a Stones answer on 'Ask Billboard' this week:

The Rolling Stones' most recent studio album, "A Bigger Bang," has sold 500,000 in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, across 26 weeks. Released in September 2005, the Virgin album debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200.

While half a million copies of an album isn't quite flop status, it's not exactly a great number, either. The Stones' previous studio album, 1997's "Bridges To Babylon," has sold 1.2 million. In "Bridges'" first 26 weeks of availability, it moved 985,000 units.

As it was certified platinum back in November, 500k seems disappointing. It's a single disc album isn't?

[Dane]

A few latest soundscan figures from Hanboo

Flashpoint - 402,000
Exile on Main Street - 605,000
Sticky Fingers - 825,000

If you have the time you should put these numbers in your first post on page 1 (second post of the thread).
The 'Ask Billboard' numbers too... would turn into one of your nice overviews then

[Fedepeti]

Some guy got a Stones answer on 'Ask Billboard' this week:

The Rolling Stones' most recent studio album, "A Bigger Bang," has sold 500,000 in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, across 26 weeks. Released in September 2005, the Virgin album debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200.

While half a million copies of an album isn't quite flop status, it's not exactly a great number, either. The Stones' previous studio album, 1997's "Bridges To Babylon," has sold 1.2 million. In "Bridges'" first 26 weeks of availability, it moved 985,000 units.

As it was certified platinum back in November, 500k seems disappointing. It's a single disc album isn't?

I was "that" guy.
ABB got a re-release with DVD back on November, maybe it shipped Platinum counting both releases.

[Dane]

ABB was actually certified platinum Oct 11th 2005, just 5 weeks after release, and about 6 weeks prior to the release of the special edition (Nov 22th 2005).

5 months after platinum certification it has scanned just 500k Sure seems like it was 'over-shipped'.

[Basil]

Hanboo has just posted soundscan figures for the whole catalogue, so here they are in context.

USA Charted Albums and Shipments

Key
Year of release
Year of latest riaa certification
Title
riaa shipment
Soundscan data since 1991

Original Studio Albums - US only titles
1964 1989 England's Newest Hitmakers - 500,000 - 104,000
1964 1989 12 x 5 - 500,000 - 85,000
1965 1989 Now - 500,000 - 78,000
1965 1966 December's Children - 500,000 - 72,000
1967 1967 Flowers - 500,000 - 151,000

Orginal Studio Albums - UK/US titles
1965 1989 Out of Our Heads - 1,000,000 - 124,000
1966 1989 Aftermath - 1,000,000 - 243,000
1967 1967 Between the Buttons - 500,000 - 116,000
1967 1967 Their Satanic Majesties - 500,000 - 168,000
1968 1989 Beggars Banquet - 1,000,000 - 527,000
1969 1989 Let It Bleed - 2,000,000 - 903,000

1971 2000 Sticky Fingers - 3,000,000 - 1,078,000
1972 2000 Exile On Main Street - 1,000,000 - 707,000
1973 2000 Goats Head Soup - 3,000,000 - 329,000
1974 2000 It's Only Rock n Roll - 1,000,000 - 246,000
1976 1976 Black and Blue - 1,000,000 - 208,000
1978 2000 Some Girls - 6,000,000 - 1,158,000
1980 2000 Emotional Rescue - 2,000,000 - 222,000
1981 2000 Tattoo You - 4,000,000 - 596,000
1983 1984 Undercover - 1,000,000 - 67,000
1986 1986 Dirty Work - 1,000,000 - 66,000
1989 1990 Steel Wheels - 2,000,000 - 211,000
1994 1994 Voodoo Lounge - 2,000,000 - 1,859,000
1997 1997 Bridges to Babylon - 1,000,000 - 1,161,000
2005 2005 A Bigger Bang - 1,000,000 - 404,000

Live Albums
1966 1967 Got Live if You Want It - 500,000 - 115,000
1970 1989 Get Your Ya Ya's Out - 1,000,000 - 317,000
1977 1977 Love You Live - 500,000 - 159,000
1982 2000 Still Life - 1,000,000 - 161,000
1991 1991 Flashpoint - 500,000 - 846,000
1995 1996 Stripped - 1,000,000 - 830,000
1998 none No Security - none - 323,000
2004 2004 Live Licks - 250,000 - 115,000

Major Compilations
1966 1989 Big Hits Vol 1 - 2,000,000 - 597,000
1969 1989 Big Hits Vol 2 - 1,000,000 - 668,000
1972 2002 Hot Rocks - 6,000,000 - 2,256,000
1984 2000 Rewind 71-84 - 500,000 - 220,000
2005 2005 Jump Back 71-93 - 500,000 - 899,000
2002 2003 Forty Licks - 2,000,000 - 2,604,000

Other Compilations
1972 1973 More Hot Rocks - 500,000 - 125,000
1989 1992 London Years (4CD) - 333,333 - 327,000
1975 none Metamorphosis - none - 38,000
1975 2000 Made in the Shade - 1,000,000 - 74,000
1981 1981 Sucking in the 70's - 500,000 - 26,000
2005 none Rarities - none - 45,000

Total Shipments - 56,583,333

Soundscan Total - 21,628,000

I've posted this on Page One of this thread. Hanboo's soundscan figures mean we can now directly compare them with the riaa certifications and dates!

[nelson]

Major Compilations
1966 1989 Big Hits Vol 1 - 2,000,000 - 597,000
1969 1989 Big Hits Vol 2 - 1,000,000 - 668,000

Hello, I couldn't find the platinum certification on RIAA site that Vol. 2 got certified.
Thanks.

Original Studio Albums - US only titles
1964 1989 England's Newest Hitmakers - 500,000 - 104,000

1965 1989 Now - 500,000 - 78,000

And these 2, too, can't find any certifications on the RIAA site. Thanks.

And you missed the platinum certification for "Through The Past, Darkly". Thanks.

[Basil]

Major Compilations
1966 1989 Big Hits Vol 1 - 2,000,000 - 597,000
1969 1989 Big Hits Vol 2 - 1,000,000 - 668,000

Hello, I couldn't find the platinum certification on RIAA site that Vol. 2 got certified.
Thanks.

ROLLING STONES, THE THROUGH THE PAST, DARKLY 10/20/89 ABKCO P ALBUM GROUP Std

[Basil]

Original Studio Albums - US only titles
1964 1989 England's Newest Hitmakers - 500,000 - 104,000

1965 1989 Now - 500,000 - 78,000

And these 2, too, can't find any certifications on the RIAA site. Thanks.

ROLLING STONES, THE THE ROLLING STONES 10/20/89 ABKCO G ALBUM GROUP Std

The Full title was "The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers"

ROLLING STONES, THE THE ROLLING STONES NOW 10/20/89 ABKCO G ALBUM GROUP Std

[nelson]

ROLLING STONES, THE THE ROLLING STONES 10/20/89 ABKCO G ALBUM GROUP Std

The Full title was "The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers"

Thanks.
So does this title "England's Newest Hit Makers" sold 800,000 in UK?
So what is the title called in US when it was called "The Rolling Stone No. 2" in UK which sold 650,000?
Thanks.

[Fedepeti]

Some Soundscan updates:

Billboard 200 - Jan. 28, 2006
182 183 ROLLING STONES RARITIES 1971-2003 5,262 92,171

Billboard 200 - Feb. 25, 2006
198 -- ROLLING STONES - BIGGER BANG 6,118 34 4,555 489,547

Also from RIAA's site:
ROLLING STONES, THE EXILE ON MAIN STREET 05/31/00 ROLLING STONES RECORDS M (3) ALBUM GROUP Std

[Basil]

ROLLING STONES, THE THE ROLLING STONES 10/20/89 ABKCO G ALBUM GROUP Std

The Full title was "The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers"

Thanks.
So does this title "England's Newest Hit Makers" sold 800,000 in UK?
So what is the title called in US when it was called "The Rolling Stone No. 2" in UK which sold 650,000?
Thanks.

England's Newest Hit Makers was never issued in the UK.

Before Their Satanic Majesties Requests, Albums in the US were completely different to the UK - even if they had the same title, the tracks were totally different.

The first 2 UK albums were

The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones No.2

They were never issued in the US and have never been released on CD.

[Basil]

Also from RIAA's site:
ROLLING STONES, THE EXILE ON MAIN STREET 05/31/00 ROLLING STONES RECORDS M (3) ALBUM GROUP Std

Thanks for the updates Fedepeti - However I cannot find this on the riaa site