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worldwide sales i was on a website looking up worldwide sales and ran across prince.
1 The Beatles 1BB 2 Elvis Presley 1BB 3 ABBA ~260,000,000 4 Cliff Richard ~260,000,000 5 Madonna ~250,000,000 6 Michael Jackson ~250,000,000 7 Nana Mouskouri ~250,000,000 8 Mariah Carey ~215,000,000 9 Celine Dion ~215,000,000 10 Elton John ~215,000,000 11 The Rolling Stones ~210,000,000 12 Garth Brooks ~210,000,000 13 Led Zeppelin ~200,000,000 14 Julio Iglesias ~200,000,000 15 Tom Jones ~200,000,000 16 Whitney Houston ~185,000,000 17 AC/DC ~184,000,000 18 Paul McCartney ~175,000,000 19 Genesis ~160,000,000 20 Phil Collins ~155,000,000 21 U2 ~150,000,000 22 E. Humperdinck ~130,000,000 23 Guns N' Roses ~120,000,000 24 Chicago ~120,000,000 25 The Eagles ~120,000,000 26 Wei Wei ~120,000,000 27 Neil Diamond ~120,000,000 28 Modern Talking ~120,000,000 29 Prince ~*120,000,000 30 The Bee Gees 110,000,000 31 Bon Jovi ~110,000,000 32 R.E.M. ~110,000,000 33 Pink Floyd ~105,000,000 34 Janet Jackson ~105,000,000 35 Kenny Rogers ~105,000,000 36 Barbra Streisand ~100,000,000 37 Mireille Mathieu ~100,000,000 38 Alla Pugacheva ~100,000,000 39 David Bowie ~100,000,000 40 Johnny Mathis ~100,000,000 41 Black Sabbath ~100,000,000 42 Ricky Nelson ~100,000,000 43 Luciano Pavarotti ~100,000,000 44 Brenda Lee ~100,000,000 45 A. R. Rahman ~100,000,000 46 OmPrakash ~100,000,000 47 Illayaraja ~100,000,000 48 Barry White ~100,000,000 49 Deep Purple ~100,000,000 50 Lionel Richie ~100,000,000 51 Dolly Parton ~100,000,000 52 Rod Stewart ~100,000,000 53 Aerosmith ~100,000,000 54 Billy Joel ~100,000,000 55 Marianne James ~100,000,000 56 Fleetwood Mac ~100,000,000 57 Johnny Hallyday ~100,000,000 58 Charles Aznavour ~100,000,000 59 Oscar Peterson ~100,000,000 60 Bruce Springsteen ~96,000,000 61 Def Leppard ~90,000,000 62 Bob Dylan ~90,000,000 63 The Ventures ~90,000,000 64 Earth, Wind & Fire 90,000,000 65 B'z ~86,000,000 66 Eddy Arnold 85,000,000 67 Jean-Michel Jarre ~80,000,000 68 Brtiney Spears ~80,000,000 69 Eurythmics ~80,000,000 70 KISS ~90,000,000 71 Linda Ronstadt ~80,000,000 72 Santana ~80,000,000 73 Dalida ~80,000,000 74 Metallica ~80,000,000 75 Salvatore Adamo ~80,000,000 Note: Stats are approximates for end of 2005. Stats are from sales estimates from Wikipedia | |
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Damn, shoulda bought 2 copies of 3121 and Prince would have been on 23.
Btw who is Wei Wei???? (Little Richard enters the stage)
Homer: Purple Rain!! Little Richard: Shut up! Homer (to Marge): Oh my God, Michael Jackson just told me to shut up! | |
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9 Celine Dion ~215,000,000
61 Def Leppard ~90,000,000 68 Brtiney Spears ~80,000,000 Something is seriously wrong here! | |
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Guns has sold as many records as Prince..I can't believe that..
Guns has only made 3 Real albums.. | |
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Please don't believe in everything that it's written in Wikipedia...
This list can't be trusted... As i posted before Prince sold between 80 and 85 million albums worldwide. Please follow the links below http://www.prince.org/msg/7/189511 http://www.prince.org/msg/7/182470 | |
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yeah, this list seems to be massively inflated in almost, if not every, case.
For starters, since it says worldwide sales, it probably includes singles as well as albums. Plus there are some weird omissions and inclusions. Much as i dig 'em, is no way the Eurythmics has sold 80 million albums! | |
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What the hell is 1BB ??? | |
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calin said: What the hell is 1BB ???
I assume it means 1 billion (i.e. one thousand million). Not sure why there are two Bs though. Unless it was 1 Billion Billion, which is I believe a squizillion. | |
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28 Modern Talking ~120,000,000
29 Prince ~*120,000,000 Modern Talking!!!??? | |
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Edu said: Please don't believe in everything that it's written in Wikipedia...
This list can't be trusted... As i posted before Prince sold between 80 and 85 million albums worldwide. Please follow the links below http://www.prince.org/msg/7/189511 http://www.prince.org/msg/7/182470 u have For You as having to gone gold and Dirty Mind as platinum and Parade as double platinum...so I mean yours seem a lil inflated as well..seeung as how these particular lps haven't reached those sales in the u.s. according to riaa.plus maybe those stats reflect world wide sales not just the uk.and u.s.a.we seem to forget there are other countries that buy music besides those two.anyway i thought it was interesting so thats why i posted. | |
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leonciolm said: 28 Modern Talking ~120,000,000
29 Prince ~*120,000,000 Modern Talking!!!??? | |
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Prince beat Pink Floyd.
I doubt it!!! Dark Side Of The Moon must have sold a bazziliongilliontrillion copies. Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
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this list is so wrong its practically outrageous and laughable, for starters mariah carey has not sold 215million records, she's barely sold half that. the beatles and elvis have not sold 1billion records, its simply not possible, there are no official sources within the recording industry which have indicated sales of that length. Let us bear in mind that the worlds four largest markets the u.s., the u.k., germany and france have a combined population of 480million people. other markets are relatively minor in importance and therefore that would suggest that every single human being in those countries have bought at least two elvis records and two beatles records. NOT REALISTIC, i dont even know anyone that owns an elvis record.
Secondly, on the other hand, MJ's record sales are grossly under-exaggerated. The official sales for mjs biggest albums are pretty common knowledge how could u get it wrong. Off the Wall 18million Thriller 59million Bad 31million Dangerous 32million History 19million (38m single albums) Invincible 10million, Blood 7million Number Ones 7 million. Thats over 200million based on his solo major albums alone, adding on singles, minor albums, his jacksons and jackson 5 stuff you get a figure closer to 400million. Thirdly, if u sit down and do this with madonna's albums u get a figure no where near 250million! | |
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Hi khemseraph
well, what i can say is the following: i have been searching and collecting information about record sales (and especially about Prince's sales) for 20 years now. Since i had acess to the net (more than 10 years ago) i have also exchanged a lot of informations with guys a bit all over the world, people interested in these stuff of best selling albums like me. this is only to show that i don't post things just to call attention. in order for you (and anybody interested) to understand why i say that "Parade" can be certified 2xPlatinum in USA (for more than 2 million copies SHIPPED to the stores) you must try to understand the following: 1) RIAA only certifies an album IF AND ONLY IF the label (Warner in this example) ask for an audition to their shipping documents. unless there is this specific request RIAA by itself doesn't do nothing in order to discover how many copies of an album were sold to the retailers. so the true shipments of an album (it's "official" sales from the label's point of view) are NOT necessarily reflected on the RIAA certifications database, and sadly this happens a lot. a prime example is the soundtrack "Grease": was certified for 8 million copies shipped in 1984 (22 years ago!), and according to Soundscan (organisation which counts sales to the public AND NOT shipments) this soundtrack sold 5,375,000 copies since January 1991 and according to BMG Record Club an additional 899,000 copies were sold through mail order (this are USA sales). so, at least 6,274,000 copies of "Grease" are not reflected on the RIAA certification for this album, and it's still missing all the eventual sales between 1984 and 1991. right now i know that "Grease" could be (and should be) certified for 14xPlatinum, but for some unknow reason the label till the present didn't apply for such certification (curiously the label did it for the other 70's classic soundtrack "Saturday Night Fever", certified 15xPlatinum in 1999). so, RIAA says a lot but doesn't say the whole story... 2) back in 1992, both in "Billboard" and "Minneapolis Star Tribune", articles were published with Prince's album sales. that's why i know that "Parade" sold, by the end of 1992, 1.85 million copies OUTSIDE USA and 1.9 million in USA. i also know, because it was posted in Billboard Online, in reply to an email i sent them, that "Parade", according to Soundscan, sold in US 230,000 copies since 1991. it's simple mathematics to guess that "Parade" shipments must be over the 2 million mark by now obviously you can disagree, but for me and many other charts "freaks", who spend hours and years in search of data, the 2 million sales in America of "Parade" are a kind of fact feel free to ask me any question you wish regarding sales and Prince's sales in particular cheers | |
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