So listening to Radio 2 Saturday night on the way out for dinner (someone elses car). Anyway on comes Black Sweat and the DJ says that Prince has told his record company he wants to sell 30 million copies of 3121 to US fans alone!!!!!

It's good but not that good...

nice and modest

Maybe he meant 13

And then forgot the decimal point between 1 and 3.

30 million copies??
The album is good and all but damn....

This doesn't sound like anything Prince would say in all seriousness... Maybe in jest. Remember, he's constantly saying that 1984 was a very special time, when a few artists broke all boundaries and sold multi-million copies of albums (Thrille, Purple Rain, Like A Virgin). he doesn't this it'll ever happen again...

I don't believe Prince said that.

Someone do the math, how many concert giveaways would he have to do?

g3ajg said:

and yuou believe that shit was actually said? dj's aren't all too bright or credible source-wise

30 million, huh? That better be one off-the-fucking-hook purple ticket party!

SexyBeautifulOne said:

Twins as far as the eye can see!

MarcelJ said:

30 million.

easy math.

PurpleHouse said:

Ok, how many concerts then? But really, he's bound to sell 1 million on his own, or even a 1/2 mil. He wouldn't have to giveaway 30 mil.

IS he dreaming, did Purple Rain even sell 30 Mil worldwide?

He tried to do mainstream music without a record company which wasn't realistic..

LOL...so out of touch.

Does he realize that selling over 2m copies nowadays would be a blockbuster.

Please tell me you guys aren't actually believing Prince said this...

PurpleHouse said:

do we have to go into that ridiculous
debate?

quality of music hardly EVER coincides with sales

SexyBeautifulOne said:

yeah, the offer better be to live in his attic, rent free
for the next year.

"yo prince, bring me another bag of cheeto's will ya"

Does anyone doubt that this foolishness will be an Org "fact" by the end of the week.

Peace, David

well, i'm buying at least one copy!

paging bullshit...

Anx said:

Me, too... ...only 29,999,998 copies to go.

lol

He actually said in an inteview that he wanted Rave to sell more copies then Purple Rain but 30 million seems Crazy and I doubt he would say it. If I've learned anything is that you can't believe anything about a celebrity you hear on tv or on the radio (or usually even if they say it themselves).
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Are you sure he didn't mean 30?

All with purple tickets of course. He doesn't want to hold a show at his house and find a half empty venue.

I don't believe Prince said this. Sounds like DJ hype to me. These guys are under pressure to be funny and interesting every day. Eventually, they start making up stuff..

I really don't think that's true, but if it is, my mamma always told me to shoot for the moon.

if 300,000 people on the org bought 100 copies each*
or 3,000,000 people on org bought 10 copies.... w/e u get the point
[Edited 3/12/06 19:17pm]