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Another album sales chart...Is this accurate??? http://current.com/items/...on-top.htm
These numbers dont seem correct..Wish they were. Anyone seen these numbers before? Music Successes: Prince has sold over 80 million records worldwide. 1979 - Prince - 1.25 Million 1980 - Dirty Mind - 1 Million 1981 - Controversy - 1 million 1982 - 1999 - 6 million 1984 - Purple Rain - 22 million 1985 - Around the World in a Day - 3 million 1986 - Parade - 2 million 1987 - Sign O the Times - 8 million 1988 - Lovesexy - 2 million 1989 - Batman - 2 million 1990 - Grafitti Bridge - 1.5 million 1991 - Diamonds & Pearls - 9 million 1992 - Love Symbol - 3 million 1993 - The Hits/B-Sides - 1.5 million 1994 - Come - 1 million 1995 - The Gold Experience - 1.5 million 1996 - Emancipation - 3 million 1999 - Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic - 1 million 2001 - The Very Best of Prince - 2.5 million 2004 - Musicology - 4 million 2006 - 3121 - 2 million 2007 - Planet Earth - 2.8 million 2009 - Lotusflow3r - 1 million | |
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Have no idea, but thanks, it's nice to see! "Free URself, B the best that U can B, 3rd Apartment from the Sun, nothing left to fear" Prince Rogers Nelson - Forever in my Life - | |
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It looks inaccurate and there are albums missing. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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It's highly inaccurate. There's no way those numbers reflect anything beyond US sales probably. Those are also numbers when it was initially released. The numbers might have went up a bit in the past 20 years. Just nonsense. | |
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ernestsewell said: It's highly inaccurate. There's no way those numbers reflect anything beyond US sales probably. Those are also numbers when it was initially released. The numbers might have went up a bit in the past 20 years. Just nonsense.
Well..its not really the low numbers that got my attention, its the high ones. Like Rave and The Gold Experience. I didnt think either of those went platinum. And also, Planet Earth and Lotus..Platinum??? | |
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ronnwinter said: ernestsewell said: It's highly inaccurate. There's no way those numbers reflect anything beyond US sales probably. Those are also numbers when it was initially released. The numbers might have went up a bit in the past 20 years. Just nonsense.
Well..its not really the low numbers that got my attention, its the high ones. Like Rave and The Gold Experience. I didnt think either of those went platinum. And also, Planet Earth and Lotus..Platinum??? You have to remember that despite him hardly singing a lot of songs frequently at the 02 shows in London, the album was connected to the 21 shows. It created a synergy over there, and here. I can see that one selling about what it did. Tours sell records. IIRC, Lotus sold about 350,000 x 3 disks it almost a million. It's the number of disks you sell, not the number of albums. It's why Emancipation shows 3 million, yet it probably sold a million. But it had 3 disks, so..there ya go: 3 million. Regardless, those numbers are quite inaccurate. | |
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ernestsewell said: ronnwinter said: Well..its not really the low numbers that got my attention, its the high ones. Like Rave and The Gold Experience. I didnt think either of those went platinum. And also, Planet Earth and Lotus..Platinum??? You have to remember that despite him hardly singing a lot of songs frequently at the 02 shows in London, the album was connected to the 21 shows. It created a synergy over there, and here. I can see that one selling about what it did. Tours sell records. IIRC, Lotus sold about 350,000 x 3 disks it almost a million. It's the number of disks you sell, not the number of albums. It's why Emancipation shows 3 million, yet it probably sold a million. But it had 3 disks, so..there ya go: 3 million. Regardless, those numbers are quite inaccurate. I think you have to charge a certain amount for multi cd albums before its counted like emancipation was. Emancipation was at least $30 where as Lotus was $11. Maybe Im wrong, i dont know. | |
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ronnwinter said: I think you have to charge a certain amount for multi cd albums before its counted like emancipation was. Emancipation was at least $30 where as Lotus was $11. Maybe Im wrong, i dont know.
Emancipation was never $30 that I saw. I never saw it for over $24 at the major outlets like Camelot, Sam Goody, Record Town, etc. In fact, Prince stated at the time that he was putting a lower price on it so everyone could afford it. Some places had it just under $20, but that was rare. Of course now you can find it in a cut-out bin for $4.99 new. You don't adjust a platinum or gold status based on price. The status isn't based on how much money you made, it's how many DISKS you sold. Prince bragged at the time that Emancipation had shipped 1,000,000 units. The truth was that he shipped over 300,000 albums, and times 3.....that's a million. It's just how the industry counts disks, not albums. | |
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anyone who actually read the link should see the disclaimer at the end:
Answers.com reports these sales only reflect US, UK and Canada...this is just a fraction of his success | |
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I believe these are world wide numbers (or USA, Canada and UK combined). And if so... would be likely be accurate.
Most are used to just seeing the US charts.. or each chart separately. | |
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I think the Planet Eart figure could be all the ones given away free in that British newspaper, I remember here at least, promotion for any post 2000 title has been non existent So what are u going 2 do? R u just gonna sit there and watch? I'm not gonna stop until the war is over. Its gonna take a long time | |
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Being that Musicology was given away to everyone who paid the price of a ticket to the concert,does that go the sales of the cd? wow! prince has never even come close to topping Purple Rain. and there are sum albums missing. | |
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They must be doing the multi disc count thing coz Sign of the times never sold 8 million copies. These figures are weird. It is the first time I have seen a global figure for Purple rain that is realistic but then Batman has a 2million figure. The figures seem to chop and change between US sales and Global | |
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Are these sales calculated from when it first came out? or are they the sales figures to this day? | |
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ronnwinter said: http://current.com/items/91031523_part-2-where-do-you-stand-prince-is-free-still-on-top.htm
These numbers dont seem correct..Wish they were. Anyone seen these numbers before? Music Successes: Prince has sold over 80 million records worldwide. 1979 - Prince - 1.25 Million 1980 - Dirty Mind - 1 Million 1981 - Controversy - 1 million 1982 - 1999 - 6 million 1984 - Purple Rain - 22 million 1985 - Around the World in a Day - 3 million 1986 - Parade - 2 million 1987 - Sign O the Times - 8 million 1988 - Lovesexy - 2 million 1989 - Batman - 2 million 1990 - Grafitti Bridge - 1.5 million 1991 - Diamonds & Pearls - 9 million 1992 - Love Symbol - 3 million 1993 - The Hits/B-Sides - 1.5 million 1994 - Come - 1 million 1995 - The Gold Experience - 1.5 million 1996 - Emancipation - 3 million 1999 - Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic - 1 million 2001 - The Very Best of Prince - 2.5 million 2004 - Musicology - 4 million 2006 - 3121 - 2 million 2007 - Planet Earth - 2.8 million 2009 - Lotusflow3r - 1 million i guess many of you dont realise this is a worldwide chart ..so just because it says whatever lp sold 1million copies don't make it platinum.platinum status is different for every country.the usa is the only country in the world that sets a 500,000 mark for gold and 1,000,000 mark for platinum(and so on and so forth)no one gets a platinum disc forselling 1,000,000 copies worldwide.in any event this is an inaccurate chart all together | |
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Exactly, in New Zealand, an album only has to sell 5,000 copies for gold and 10,000 for Platinum. Purple Rain sold 38,500 copies here going 3x Platinum, in the USA 38,000 is enough for a sole week in the Top 20 in comparison. In all I guess Prince has sold 500,000 or so albums in New Zealand and about 3-5 million in Australia (That is a guess) So what are u going 2 do? R u just gonna sit there and watch? I'm not gonna stop until the war is over. Its gonna take a long time | |
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Huggiebear said: I think the Planet Eart figure could be all the ones given away free in that British newspaper, I remember here at least, promotion for any post 2000 title has been non existent
That's true. That paper tripled it's Sunday circulation thanks to the CD being inside and sold close to 1.5 million copies. When  go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all  up in the house but when log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming! | |
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'Parade' sold a LOT more than 2 million records and so did 'Lovesexy'. Fact. |
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moderatorkhemseraph said: ronnwinter said: http://current.com/items/91031523_part-2-where-do-you-stand-prince-is-free-still-on-top.htm
These numbers dont seem correct..Wish they were. Anyone seen these numbers before? Music Successes: Prince has sold over 80 million records worldwide. 1979 - Prince - 1.25 Million 1980 - Dirty Mind - 1 Million 1981 - Controversy - 1 million 1982 - 1999 - 6 million 1984 - Purple Rain - 22 million 1985 - Around the World in a Day - 3 million 1986 - Parade - 2 million 1987 - Sign O the Times - 8 million 1988 - Lovesexy - 2 million 1989 - Batman - 2 million 1990 - Grafitti Bridge - 1.5 million 1991 - Diamonds & Pearls - 9 million 1992 - Love Symbol - 3 million 1993 - The Hits/B-Sides - 1.5 million 1994 - Come - 1 million 1995 - The Gold Experience - 1.5 million 1996 - Emancipation - 3 million 1999 - Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic - 1 million 2001 - The Very Best of Prince - 2.5 million 2004 - Musicology - 4 million 2006 - 3121 - 2 million 2007 - Planet Earth - 2.8 million 2009 - Lotusflow3r - 1 million i guess many of you dont realise this is a worldwide chart ..so just because it says whatever lp sold 1million copies don't make it platinum.platinum status is different for every country.the usa is the only country in the world that sets a 500,000 mark for gold and 1,000,000 mark for platinum(and so on and so forth)no one gets a platinum disc forselling 1,000,000 copies worldwide.in any event this is an inaccurate chart all together oh and i forgot.most of the certifications are not updated regularly | |
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In the following link you can read everything that is known about Prince sales and certifications around the around.
The first page is a summary but there is more information on the other pages of the thread. Enjoy it... PRINCE sales database That list above is a complete mess and untrue... | |
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These are worldwide figures, so should be fairly accurate, If sales even matter that is.
I'm impressed with 'Lotusflow3r' given its limited availability. Thanks for this. | |
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